...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...

...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...

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

..., Bulgaria, etc because they have been 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...

...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...

... since the end of the Civil War, to poultry growing. Soon spring chickens or "fryers" that once ran about yards and were considered a seasonal crop were renamed "broilers" and were grown year-round in enclosed houses under tightly regulated conditions. What had been once the domain of women and children...

..., 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 0-9610116-1-0. This is a very special book. The author, Thea Lowry, grew up on a Peta? luma chicken ranch (the preferred term) and writes warmly...

... 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...

... 305, 1913, p. 388. See also Kathy J. Cooke, “From Science to Practice or Practice to Science? Chickens and Eggs in Raymond Pearl’s Agricultural Breeding Research, 1907-1916,” Isis 88, no 1 (Mar. 1997): 62-86; Margaret E. Derry, Art and Science in Breeding: Creating Better Chickens (Toronto...

.... 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...

..., "What the Fruit Buyer Wants," Fourth Biennial Report of Iowa Book of Agriculture, 146-51 Steven Striffler, The Triumph and Tragedy of Chicken (forthcoming, Yale University Press) 18 First Biennial Report of Iowa Book of Agriculture, 273–74 "Highways vs. Farm Lands," Des Moines Sunday Register...

..., and consumption (stewing, boiling, curing, frying, salting, etc The first chapter concludes with one of the better discussions of the rise ofmeat within American diets. The next four chapters trace the early histories of beef, pork, hot dogs, and chicken. For beef and pork, the focus is on the period between...