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...Jenny Barker-Devine Abstract During the Cold War, physical and cultural distance from major metropolitan areas did not preclude farm and rural families from taking part in civil defense preparations. In the early 1950s the evacuation of civilian populations from urban areas and military targets...

...Monica R. Gisolfi Copyright 2008 Agricultural History Society 2008 Plain Folk’s Fight: The Civil War and Reconstruction in Piney Woods Georgia . Mark V. Wetherington . 2008 BookReviews ganic farming, and sustainability movements have their codes of acceptable conduct, sharing some...

...Edward F. Haas Remember My Sacrifice: The Autobiography of Clinton Clark, Tenant Farm Organizer and Early Civil Rights Activist . Elizabeth Davey and Rodney Clark . © 2009 Agricultural History Society 2009 2009 Book Reviews RememberMy Sacrifice:The Autobiographyof ClintonClark...

...Adam H. Petty Extreme Civil War: Guerrilla Warfare, Environment, and Race on the Trans-Mississippi Frontier . By Matthew M. Stith . Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press , 2016 . 232 pp., $42.50 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-8071-6314-6. © 2019 Agricultural History Society...

... description and seamless narrative encompassing nearly every aspect of Camden s and the Wateree Valley s economic development. Peter N. Moore Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi Unredeemed Land: An Environmental History of Civil War and Emancipation in the Cotton South. By Erin Stewart Mauldin. Oxford: Oxford...

... in motion by the Civil War were at the center of the key issues of the era: the rise of sharecropping and tenant farming, the closing of the commons, the ineffectiveness of Reconstruction land policies, and the resulting poverty of landless white and black farmers. This is not environmental determinism...

... in the Age of Civil Rights. By Pete Daniel. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2013. 352 pp., $34.95, hardback, ISBN 978-1-4696-0201-1. Forty acres and a mule became an unfulfilled dream, forcing most blacks following emancipation to remain on the land as tenants and croppers earning scarcely...

...Charles J. Holden © the Agricultural History Society, 2015 2015 Sharing the Prize: The Economics of the Civil Rights Revolution in the American South . By Gavin Wright . Cambridge : Harvard University Press , 2013 . 368 pp., $35.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-674-04933-8 . 2015...

...Brooks Blevins A Store Almost in Sight: The Economic Transformation of Missouri from the Louisiana Purchase to the Civil War . By Jeff Bremer . Iowa City : University of Iowa press , 2014 . 252 pp., $39.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-1-60938-226-1 . © the Agricultural History Society...

...Debra A. Reid Standing Their Ground: Small Farmers in North Carolina since the Civil War . By Adrienne Monteith Petty . New York : Oxford University Press , 2013 . 296 pp., $74.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-19-993852-0 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2015 2015 Agricultural...

...Adam W. Dean The Blue, the Gray, and the Green: Toward an Environmental History of the Civil War . Edited by Brian Allen Drake . Athens : University of Georgia Press , 2015 . 256 pp., $22.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-0-8203-4715-8. © 2016 Agricultural History Society 2016 2016...

...Megan Kate Nelson An Agrarian Republic: Farming, Antislavery Politics, and Nature Parks in the Civil War Era . By Adam Wesley Dean . Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press , 2015 . 256 pp., $29.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-1-4696-1991-0. © 2016 Agricultural History Society...

...Judkin Browning Agriculture and the Confederacy: Policy, Productivity, and Power in the Civil War South . By R. Douglas Hurt . Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press , 2015 . 364 pp., $45.00 , paperback, ISBN 978-1-4696-2001-5. © 2016 Agricultural History Society 2016...

...Scott P. Marler Abstract Although the importance of country stores to the economy of the post–Civil War South has long been widely acknowledged, by far the most careful and influential analysis of rural merchants is Ransom and Sutch's One Kind of Freedom (1977), which used mostly region-wide data...

...Brian Hamilton War upon the Land: Military Strategy and the Transformation of Southern Landscapes during the American Civil War . By Lisa M. Brady . Athens : University of Georgia Press , 2012 . 208 pp., $24.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-0-8203-4249-8 . © the Agricultural History...

...Andrew Slap Rebels on the Border: Civil War, Emancipation, and the Reconstruction of Kentucky and Missouri . By Aaron Astor . Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press , 2012 . 360 pp., $47.50 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-8071-4298-1 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2014...

...Steven Toms [email protected] Losing the Thread: Cotton, Liverpool and the American Civil War . By Jim Powell . Liverpool : Liverpool University Press , 2020 . 256 pp., $130.00 , hardback, ISBN 9781789622492. Copyright © 2022 the Agricultural History Society 2022...

...Tommy C. Brown Driven from Home: North Carolina’s Civil War Refugee Crisis . By David Silkenat . Athens : University of Georgia Press , 2016 . 264 pp., $49.95 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-8203-4946-6 . © 2017 Agricultural History Society 2017 450 Agricultural History of political...

...J. Michael Crane Slavery on the Periphery: The Kansas-Missouri Border in the Antebellum and Civil War Eras . By Kristen Epps . Athens : University of Georgia Press , 2016 . 288 pp., $59.95 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-8203-5050-9 . © 2018 Agricultural History Society 2018 128...

...Keith D. McCall An Environmental History of the Civil War . By Judkin Browning and Timothy Silver . Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press , 2020 . 261 pp., $30.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-1-4696-5538-3. © 2021 Agricultural History Society 2021 Book Reviews 195...