...Jin-Yeon Kang Abstract This article examines changes in agrarian social relations during the Japanese colonial period in Korea. Throughout the colonial rule, the Japanese regime followed the imperial logic of maximizing its own political and economic interests, thus generating the societal...

... presents the book with its greatest strength the recognition and acknowledgement that agrarian uprisings such as that which occurred in Chihuahua in 1965 never emerge out of a vacuum. Marc Becker Truman State University The Lived Nile: Environment, Disease, and Material Colonial Economy in Egypt...

... Colony, 1652–1842 (Athens: Ohio University Press, 1995 ) L. Guelke, "Frontier Settlement in Early Dutch South Africa," Annals of the Association of American Geographers66 (March1976), 33 2 Landdrost and Heemraden 1745–1767, 15 October 1745 CA 1/SWM 1/1 Minutes of Landdrost and Heemraden 1750...

...TODD H. LEEDY Abstract Both missionaries and government policymakers in colonial Zimbabwe consciously identified agriculture as an important avenue in establishing broader paradigms of explanation. Missionary promotion of new farming practices inevitably challenged the existing spiritual landscape...

...David B. Parker The Short Life of Free Georgia: Class and Slavery in the Colonial South . By Noeleen McIlvenna . Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press , 2016 . 158 pp., $24.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-1-4696-2403-7. © 2019 Agricultural History Society 2019 200...

...Peter A. Coclanis Abstract During the period between roughly 1850 and 1940, Lower Burma came under British colonial rule and, as a result, experienced a profound transformation or “metamorphosis.” This metamorphosis had environmental, economic, and political dimensions, which Southeast Asian...

...John C. Mitcham The Second Colonial Occupation: Development Planning, Agriculture, and the Legacies of British Rule in Nigeria . By Bekeh Utietiang Ukelina . Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2017. 238 pp., $95.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-4985-2024-2. © 2019 Agricultural History Society...

...John Burton Kegel [email protected] Colonial Impotence: Virtue and Violence in a Congolese Concession (1911–1940) . By Benoît Henriet . Berlin : De Gruyter , 2021 . 202 pp., $97.99 , hardcover, ISBN 9783110648782 . Copyright © 2023 the Agricultural History Society...

...Todd Cleveland Chocolate Islands: Cocoa, Slavery, and Colonial Africa . By Catherine Higgs . Athens : Ohio University Press , 2012 . 236 pp., $35.96 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-8214-2006-5 . © the Agricultural History society, 2014 2014 Agricultural History Fall dung sources...

...Nancy Cushing All Things Harmless, Useful, and Ornamental: Environmental Transformations through Species Acclimatization, from Colonial Australia to the World . By Pete Minard . Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press , 2019 . 208 pp. $32.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-1-469-65161-3...

...Bertie Mandelblatt A Not-So-New World: Empire and Environment in French Colonial North America . By Christopher M. Parsons . Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press , 2018 . 264 pp., $45.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-8122-5058-9. © 2021 Agricultural History Society 2021...

...Kate McDonald Seeds of Control: Japan’s Empire of Forestry in Colonial Korea . By David Fedman . Seattle : University of Washington Press , 2020 . 320 pp., $40.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-2957-4745-3. © 2021 Agricultural History Society 2021 Book Reviews 191 modernity. Scholars...

...Andrew J. Rotter Taste of Control: Food and the Filipino Colonial Mentality under American Rule . By René Alexander D. Orquiza Jr . New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press , 2020 . 224 pp., $27.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-1-9788-0641-2. © 2021 Agricultural History Society 2021...

...Harriet Ritvo Imperial Creatures: Humans and Other Animals in Colonial Singapore, 1819–1942 . By Timothy P. Barnard . Singapore : NUS Press , 2019 . 336 pp. $34.00 , paperback, ISBN 9789813250871. © 2021 Agricultural History Society 2021 564 Agricultural History Imperial...

...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...

...Nicole A. Jacoberger The Colonial Landscape of the British Caribbean . Edited by Roger Leech and Pamela Leech . Martlesham : Boydell Press , 2021 . 312 pp., $70.00 , hardback, ISBN 9781783275656. © 2021 Agricultural History Society 2021 694 Agricultural History land would...

...Theresa Ventura Abstract In 1903 the American colonial government of the Philippines passed two major land acts designed to turn landless peasants into freeholders. Yet a mere two years later, US administrators declared the law a failure. This article asks why support for land redistribution...

...Jennifer L. Anderson Local Subversions of Colonial Cultures: Commodities and Anti-Commodities in Global History . Edited by Sandip Hazareesingh and Harro Maat . London : Palgrave Macmillan , 2016 . $100.00 , 224 pp., hardback, ISBN 978-1-137-38109-5 . © 2017 Agricultural History...

... ability to expand its African workforce, which was, itself, contingent upon Diamang’s capacity to feed its workers. Drawing upon company and colonial records, as well as interviews conducted with former mineworkers and company officials, I argue that a range of complementary company and colonial...

...Philipp N. Lehmann German Colonial Wars and the Context of Military Violence . By Susanne Kuss . Translated by Andrew Smith . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press , 2017 . 400 pp., $45.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-6749-7063-2 . © 2018 Agricultural History Society 2018 446...