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...Susan M. Squier Chicken . By Annie Potts . London : Reaktion Press , 2012 . 216 pp., $19.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-1-86189-858-6 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2012 2012 2012 Book Reviews as turning bees into soldiers and a skep beehive into a brass helmet...

...Annie Potts Poultry Science, Chicken Culture: A Partial Alphabet . By Susan Merrill Squier . New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press , 2011 . 296 pp., $39.95 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-8135-4924-8 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2013 2013 2013 Book Reviews as possible...

...Shane Hamilton Chicken: The Dangerous Transformation of America’s Favorite Food . Steve Striffler . Copyright 2007 Agricultural History Society 2007 2007 BookReviews cratic government used these measures in order to correct past injustices, but that the resultswere not uniformly...

...Chana Lee Copyright 2008 Agricultural History Society 2008 Building Houses out of Chicken Legs: Black Women, Food, and Power . Psyche A. Williams-Forson . 2008 BookReviews and church attendance, and her perceived lack of love inher home, Celestia poured out her discontent to her diary...

...Claire J. Du Laney The Takeover: Chicken Farming and the Roots of American Agribusiness . By Monica R. Gisolfi . Athens : University of Georgia Press , 2017 . 128 pp., $24.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-0-8203-4971-8. © 2019 Agricultural History Society 2019 376 Agricultural History...

...Nancy J. Taniguchi Empty Shells: The Story of Petaluma, America’s Chicken City . Thea Lowry . Copyright 2002 Agricultural History Society 2002 Book Reviews / 131 welcome addition to the growing of law, culture, land, and place. literature focused upon the convergence Gordon Morris...

...Olivia Paschal Abstract Rural farm women were chickens’ earliest caretakers and did not, as some literature has suggested, disappear from the work of chicken farming as poultry industrialized. From World War II through the end of the twentieth century, many rural Arkansas farm women were primary...

...Steve Striffler Chickenizing Farms and Food: How Industrial Meat Production Endangers Workers, Animals, and Consumers . By Ellen Silbergeld . Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press , 2016 . 352 pp., $26.95 , hardback, ISBN 978-1-4214-2030-1 . © 2018 Agricultural History...

... Brooks of Gold Kist (Atlanta: Gold Kist, Inc, 1982 ) William H. Williams , Delmarva’s Chicken Industry: 75 Years of Progress (Georgetown, Del.: Delmarva Poultry Industry, 1998 ) Mitzi and Frank Perdue, Fifty Years of Building on a Solid Foundation: In Celebration of Frank...

... addition to the growing of law, culture, land, and place. literature focused upon the convergence Gordon Morris Bakken California State University, Fullerton Empty Shells: The Story of Petaluma, America's Chicken City. By Thea Lowry. Novato, Cal.: Manifold Press, 2000. 271 pp., $40.00, hardback, ISBN 0...

... in the poultry industry puts it: if you choose to work as a broiler farmer you need only see chickens at night on your dinner plate). Squier s eloquent examination of our cultural history with chickens also covers such diverse topics as the representation of chickens in literature, film, and visual culture...

..., Chicken Culture: A Partial Alphabet. By Susan Merrill Squier. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2011. 296 pp., $39.95, hardback, ISBN 978-0-8135-4924-8. In the first few pages of Poultry Science, Chicken Culture, Susan Merrill Squier declares, chickens are good to think with (4). Her...

... affected by similar processes. Josip Faricic University of Zadar Chicken: The Dangerous TransformationofAmerica's FavoriteFood. By Steve StrifflerN.ew Haven: Yale UniversityPress, 2005. 208 pp., $25.00,hardback,ISBN 0-3000-9529-5. In Chicken, anthropologist Steve Striffler begins with a description...

... this book an interesting read. Gene Kritsky College of Mount St. Joseph Chicken. By Annie Potts. London: Reaktion Press, 2012. 216 pp., $19.95, paperback, ISBN 978-1-86189-858-6. Annie Potts s Chicken will please the expert chicken fancier as well as anyone with a passing curiosity about the contemporary...

... and rested on the conviction that good breeding could proceed with no knowledge of underlying hereditary laws. Experience taught which systems brought about the desired results because only through experience could a breeder learn which selection strategies worked best to increase the ability of chickens...

.... It is a study of breeding in relation to traditional and scientific views. Pig breeding in the Netherlands was similar to and yet different from chicken breeding. Pig breeding ended up being a strange blend of pure breeding, crossbreeding, and hybrid breeding. Private companies came into existence in order...

... ( 2000 ): 85 – 103 . 4. Joan Thirsk , Alternative Agriculture: A History from the Black Death to the Present Day ( Oxford : Oxford University Press , 1997 ), 189 – 95 , 212 ; Brian Short , “The Art and Craft of Chicken Cramming: Poultry in the Weald of Sussex, 1850–1950...

.... By Solomon Iyobosa Omo-Osagie II. Lanham, Md.: University Press of America, 2012. 206 pp., $60.00, hardback, ISBN 978-0-7618-5876-8. The chicken business has been central to African-American life on Maryland s Lower Eastern Shore since the 1930s. Drawn from his 2007 dissertation, historian Solomon Iyobosa...

... not begin to uncover simply because these inimitable perspectives of chickens do not register conceptually or experientially within the human domain (52). With rare grace, this lovely book simultaneously celebrates the chicken, acknowledges the limits of our human ability to compass it fully, and imagines...