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...Steven J. Bucklin Cold War in a Cold Land: Fighting Communism on the Northern Plains . By David Mills . Norman : University of Oklahoma Press , 2015 . 312 pp., $29.95 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-8061-4694-2. © 2016 Agricultural History Society 2016 2016 Book Reviews history from...

... to Mobilize: Agrarian Reform in Russia, 1861–1930 (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1982 ) Worster, Dust Bowl Cold Capitalism The Political Ecology Orange Juice of Frozen Concentrated SHANE HAMILTON Frozen concentrated orange juice (FCOJ) was invented in 1945 by govern? ment researchers...

...Jenny Leigh Smith Global Development: A Cold War History . By Sara Lorenzini . Princeton : Princeton University Press , 2019 . 296 pp., $29.95 , hardcover, ISBN 9780691180151. © 2020 Agricultural History Society 2020 Book Reviews 689 and analysis at times. Far from...

...--in the first decade of the Cold War. This period is revealing precisely because the reversal of fortunes in the Polish agricultural economy required the Polish government and some western counterparts to maneuver through periods of both agricultural advantage and disadvantage. Agricultural strategies as means...

...Elizabeth Herbin Southern Modernist: Arthur Raper from the New Deal to the Cold War . Louis Mazzari . Copyright 2007 Agricultural History Society 2007 2009 BookReviews the greater value of freedom. The Middle West with its foundation of free farmers represented independence and social...

...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...

...) Robert Bothwell, "Eyes West: Canada and the Cold War in Asia," in Canada and the Early Cold War, 1943-1957, ed. Greg Donaghy (Ottawa: Foreign Affairs and International Trade, 1998), 59-70 Pearson’s marginalia on A. F. W. Plumptre to Under-Secretary of State for External Affairs (hereafter USSEA), Dec...

... as an outgrowth of US foreign aid and trade policymaking as it evolved during the Cold War. In particular, it chronicles the historic shift in US foreign policy away from "give-away" food aid and surplus sales and toward the championing of global agricultural redevelopment under such programs as the Marshall Plan...

...Aaron Thomas Engineering the Environment: Phytotrons and the Quest for Climate Control in the Cold War . By David P. D. Munns . Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press , 2017 . 360 pp., $49.95 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-8229-4474-4. © 2019 Agricultural History Society 2019...

...Courtney I. P. Thomas Supermarket USA: Food and Power in the Cold War Farms Race . By Shane Hamilton . New Haven : Yale University Press , 2018 . 288 pp., $38.00 , hardcover, ISBN 978-0-3002-3269-1. © 2019 Agricultural History Society 2019 554 Agricultural History vides...

...Stuart McCook Buying into the Regime: Grapes and Cold War Consumption in Chile and the United States . By Heidi Tinsman . Durham : Duke University Press , 2014 . 376 pp., $26.96 , paperback. ISBN 978–0–8223–5535–9 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2015 2015 Agricultural...

...Daniel Immerwahr The Great American Mission: Modernization and the Construction of an American World Order . By David Ekbladh . Princeton : Princeton University Press , 2009 . 408 pp., $24.95 , ISBN 978-0-691-15245-5 . The Hungry World: America's Cold War Battle against...

...Seung-joon Lee Cuisine, Colonialism and Cold War Food in Twentieth-Century Korea . By Katarzyna J. Cwiertka . London : Reaktion Books , 2012 . 237 pp., $40.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-1-78023-025-2 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2014 2014 2014 Book Reviews writing colonial...

...Craig Morris; David Bolingbroke Abstract This article deepens our understanding of Cold War–era agricultural history by examining the relationship between Pacific Northwest soft white wheat and Japanese importers and consumers. Recent historiography of wheat during the Cold War has focused...

...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...

... time it continued to push the family farm. The bureau entered a third phase of life after World War II, when the power it generated became identified with winning the Cold War against the Soviet Union and agribusiness eclipsed the family farm in the West. Finally, once big dams began to look too...

... promoting space age, push-button imagery and then the notion of the “farmer in the business suit, “ before turning away from images of actual farm folk toward increasingly hyper-masculine paid models. This shift also corresponded with challenges to traditional masculinity, including the Cold War, the Farm...

... access to markets. It also built on aviation's roots in the agricultural landscapes of the Midwest and Great Plains as well as the strategic role these spaces would come to play in the Cold War. In addition to giving farmers greater control over their land and work, flight was more broadly imagined...

... of comparative studies of land reform within the politics of Cold War developmentalism. South Korean land reform in 1950 transformed most tenant farmers into independent small farm owners. Tenant farmers attained their long-held desire to own land, but individual farm management left them in a precarious state...

...John B. Seitz Abstract On the eve of the twentieth century, plant explorers from the United States such as Neils E. Hansen traveled to Russian Central Asia in search of new cold-hardy and drought-resistant alfalfa varieties. Hansen’s travels and the work of other alfalfa boosters would help create...