...Daniel May Mallee Country: Land, People, History . By Richard Broome , Charles Fahey , Andrea Gaynor , and Katie Holmes . Clayton : Monash University Publishing , 2019 . 415 pp., $39.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-1-925523-12-6. © 2020 Agricultural History Society 2020 494...

...Michael Turner The Landscape of Food: The Food Relationship of Town and Country in Modern Times . Marjatta Hietala and Tanja Vahtikari . Copyright 2007 Agricultural History Society 2007 Agricultural History Spring lenge was also taken up by Catholic religious communities, which...

... in the American imagination. Cattle Country is organized chronologically. Each chapter is generally dedicated to one author and focused on one or two of their works. Dolan leads off with Washington Irving's frontier boosterism, juxtaposing his personal accounts of 1830s Indian Country with a couple of James...

...: Princeton University Press, 2013); Rough Country: How Texas Became America’s Most Powerful Bible Belt State (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2014); and In the Blood: Understanding America’s Farm Families (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2015). 2. Wuthnow notes that greater details...

... and Country Roots of Modjeska Monteith Simkins s Activism ADRIENNE MONTEITH PETTY This essay analyzes how Modjeska Monteith Simkins s unique roots in the city and hinterland of Columbia, South Carolina, informed her approach to civil and human rights activism. Simkins devoted her life to fighting racism...

...Valerie Grim Growing up with the Country: Family, Race, and Nation after the Civil War . By Kendra Taira Field . New Haven : Yale University Press , 2018 . 256 pp., $38.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-300-18052-7. © 2019 Agricultural History Society 2019 768 Agricultural History...

...Jane Adams Our Common Country: Family Farming, Culture, and Community in the Nineteenth-Century Midwest . Susan Sessions Rugh . Copyright 2002 Agricultural History Society 2002 704 / Agricultural History slaves in southeastem Louisiana adjusted to the free market rapidly and were...

...Claire M. Wolnisty Country of the Cursed and the Driven stands as a meticulously researched narrative of human stories of violence and resistance. It reframes familiar stories in unfamiliar ways and identifies sites of future research. Students and experienced scholars will find much...

...Jane Whittle A Country Merchant, 1495–1520: Trading and Farming at the End of the Middle Ages . By Christopher Dyer . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2012 . 272 pp., $125.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-19-921424-2 . © the Agricultural History society, 2014 2014 Agricultural...

... in Central Province Wellesley,” Aug. 3, 1956, Department of Co-operative Development (CO-OP) 1136/56, ANM-KL. Not the Oil of the Country : Smallholders and British Malaya s Oil Palm Industry, 1929 1941 GEOFFREY K. PAKIAM If the long-term economic fundamentals behind tropical agricultural production...

...Abigail Dowling Town and Country in Medieval North Western Europe: Dynamic Interactions . Edited by Alexis Wilkin, John Naylor, Derek Keene, and Arnoud-Jan Bijsterveld . 333 pp., €85.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-2-503-53387-2 . © 2016 Agricultural History Society 2016 2016 Book...

...Darren E. Grem Country Comes to Town: The Music Industry and the Transformation of Nashville . By Jeremy Hill . Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press , 2015 . 224 pp., $26.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-1-62534-172-3 . © 2017 Agricultural History Society 2017 Book Reviews 283...

...Dario A. Euraque Globalized Fruit, Local Entrepreneurs: How One Banana-Exporting Country Achieved Worldwide Reach . By Douglas Southgate and Lois Roberts . Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press , 2016 . 232 pp., $59.95 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-8122-4807-4 . © 2017...

...Ryan Poe Pfeiffer Country: The Tenant Farms and Business Activities of Paul Pfeiffer in Clay County, Arkansas: 1902–1954 . By Sherry Laymon . Little Rock : Butler Center of Books , 2009 . 224 pp., $19.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-0-9800897-7-6 . © the Agricultural History Society...

...Leah S. Glaser Dreaming of Sheep in Navajo Country . By Marsha Weisiger . Seattle : University of Washington Press , 2010 . 418 pp., $35.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-295-98881-8 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2011 2011 2011 Book Reviews resided in safer climes in Charleston...

...Marjoleine Kars Nature and History in the Potomac Country: From Hunter-Gatherers to the Age of Jefferson . By James D. Rice . Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press , 2009 . 360 pp., $40.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-8018-9032-1 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2011 2011...

...Christopher W. Shaw Abstract In 1908 President Theodore Roosevelt formed the Country Life Commission to address contemporary concerns over the state of rural America. One of the issues that commissioners planned to address provoked an internal impasse: the relationship of immigration to agriculture...

...Michael Roche Making Sheep Country: Mt. Peel and the Transformation of the Tussock Lands . By Robert Peden . Auckland : Auckland University Press , 2011 . 296 pp., NZD$49.99 , ISBN 978-1-86940-485-7 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2012 2012 2012 Book Reviews Australia...

...Mary E. Grigsby Opening Windows onto Hidden Lives: Women, Country Life, and Early Rural Sociological Research . By Julie N. Zimmerman and Olaf F. Larson , 2010 . State College : Pennsylvania State University Press , 2011 . 240 pp., $64.95 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-271-03728-8...

...Edith M. Ziegler Abstract The Commission on Country Life established by Theodore Roosevelt submitted its report in January 1909. Its vision of a country life that could be as economically viable and genuinely fulfilling as an urban alternative is still relevant. In fact, as twenty-first-century...