...Fengfeng Zhang Railroads and the Transformation of China . By Elisabeth Köll . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press , 2019 . 416 pp., $28.20 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-6743-6817-0. © 2020 Agricultural History Society 2020 290 Agricultural History development, Blevin s decision...

... an important opportunity to take stock, to reflect further on important transnational connections, and to chart new paths forward for national and regional histories. Jackson R. Perry Georgetown University Famine Relief in Warlord China. By Pierre Fuller. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University East Asia Center...

...Chitralekha Zutshi [email protected] The Frontier Complex: Geopolitics and the Making of the India-China Border, 1846–1962 . By Kyle Gardner . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2021 . 300 pp., $99.00 , hardcover, ISBN 9781108840590 . Copyright © 2022 the Agricultural...

... was the realization that defeat would mean victimization at the hands of one's enemies. They also reveal in remarkable detail the deep involvement of China's armed forces in the definition and perpetuation of county-level factionalism. The struggle in Feng County was pushed forward by the absence of a neutral...

..., Californiaa,nd othersouthwestersntatesanticipateand planforthelikely shortagesto come. RobertW.Adler Universitoyf Utah Global The Dragon and theElephant:Agriculturaalnd Rural Reformsin China and India. Edited byAshok Gulati and ShenggenFan. Baltimore:Johns HopkinsUniversityPress,2008.576 pp38.00,paperback...

... by specialists in the relevant research fields. Students of Chinese history may wonder if one can write an “environmental history of early China” based on the evidence from a relatively small region of Guanzhong (in the present-day Shaanxi Province of China). Lander's occasional overreliance on normative texts...

...E. N. Anderson Bitter and Sweet: Food, Meaning, and Modernity in Rural China . By Ellen Oxfeld . Oakland : University of California Press , 2017 . 280 pp., $34.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-0-5205-9352-6 . © 2018 Agricultural History Society 2018 Book Reviews 271 Book Reviews Asia...

...Erika Rappaport Tea War: A History of Capitalism in China and India . By Andrew B. Liu . New Haven : Yale University Press , 2020 . 360 pp., $50.00 , hardcover, ISBN 978-0-3002-4373-4. © 2021 Agricultural History Society 2021 Book Reviews 189 their lives and communities, Reid...

...Xiuyu Wang Fir and Empire: The Transformation of Forests in Early Modern China . By Ian M. Miller . Seattle : University of Washington Press , 2020 . 296 pp., $40.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-2957-4733-0. © 2021 Agricultural History Society 2021 180 Agricultural History Book...

...Ian M. Miller The Making of a New Rural Order in South China: Volume II, Merchants, Markets, and Lineages, 1500–1700 . By Joseph P. McDermott . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2020 . 497 pp. $135.00 , hardback, ISBN 9781107048515. © 2021 Agricultural History Society 2021...

...Mark E. Frank The Profits of Nature: Colonial Development and the Quest for Resources in Nineteenth-Century China . By Peter B. Lavelle . New York : Columbia University Press , 2020 . 304 pp., $65.00 , hardback, ISBN 9780231194709. © 2021 Agricultural History Society 2021 Book...

...Brigid E. Vance Upriver Journeys: Diaspora and Empire in Southern China, 1570–1850 . By Steven B. Miles . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press , 2017 . 346 pp., $45.95 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-6749-7520-0 . © 2018 Agricultural History Society 2018 634 Agricultural History...

...Karl Gerth Golden-Silk Smoke: A History of Tobacco in China, 1550–2010 . By Carol Benedict . Berkeley : University of California Press , 2011 . 352 pp., $49.95 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-520-26277-5 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2012 2012 2012 Book Reviews Fitting shows...

...David Pattinson Abstract The archaeological evidence for human consumption of honey in China dates back to the seventh millennium BCE, while the earliest reference to beekeeping is in a third century CE biography of a reclusive scholar who kept bees during the mid-second century. Based mainly upon...

...Xiaoyuan Liu Border Landscapes: The Politics of Akha Land Use in China and Thailand . Janet C. Sturgeon . Copyright 2008 Agricultural History Society 2008 2008 Book Reviews BorderLandscapes: The PoliticsofAkha Land Use inChina and Thai land.By JanetC...

...Yixin Chen Abstract This article examines how Mao’s grand strategy for Cold War competition inflicted a catastrophic agricultural failure in China and victimized tens of millions of Chinese peasants. It argues that Khrushchev’s 1957 boast about the Soviet Union surpassing the United States in key...

...Greg Donaghy; Michael D. Stevenson Abstract Although Canada was a committed member of the western alliance and publically supported Washington, DC’s efforts to isolate communist China, Ottawa embarked on large-scale wheat sales to Beijing in the late 1950s in the face of sustained US opposition...

...Xiaoyuan Liu The Great Divergence: Europe, China, and the Making of the Modern World Economy . Kenneth Pomeranz . Copyright 2001 Agricultural History Society 2001 Book Reviews / 379 The Great Divergence: Europe, China, and the Making ofthe Modern World Economy. By Kenneth Pomeranz...

...S. F. Chung Shifting Ground: The Changing Agricultural Soils of China and Indonesia . Peter H. Lindert . Copyright 2001 Agricultural History Society 2001 Book Reviews / 533 In Part Two, "A New Deal in Rural Electrification," Kline explores the institutional and organizational history...

...Judith Shapiro Agricultural History Fall explanations, as in the following formulation: Whatever led to China s environmental problems, it certainly was not philosophy, nor was it lack of science. It was, in fact, population and limited administrative scope and competence (95). One could argue...