..., Graham s book is an accessible history of genetics and its socialist variations as practiced in the Soviet Union and Russia up to the present day written by a leading scholar in the field. Jenny Leigh Smith Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Rural Society and Economic Change in County Durham...

...Kathleen Smith Kutolowski Of Cabbages and Kings County: Agriculture and the Formation of Modern Brooklyn . Marc Linder and Lawrence S. Zacharias . Copyright 2001 Agricultural History Society 2001 Book Reviews / 257 French Revolution on the local level, the process of economic...

...Robert S. Davis Abstract The story of the creation of Cullman County in the post Civil War South has been the subject of propaganda and myth that has gone far beyond Alabama. German immigrants from Cincinnati, Ohio, founded an agricultural community that traditional accounts credit with bringing...

...Hanes Walton, Jr. African American Politics in Rural America: Theory, Practice, and Case Studies from Florence County, South Carolina . E. Ike Udogu . Copyright 2008 Agricultural History Society 2008 2008 Book Reviews But the book does more than present the variety of practice. Its...

...Steven D. Reschly Garden Spot: Lancaster County, the Old Order Amish, and the Selling of Rural America . David Walbert . Copyright 2003 Agricultural History Society 2003 622 / Agricultural History Garden Spot: Lancaster County, the Old Order Amish, and the Selling of Rural America...

...Cornelia Butler Flora Native Soil: A History of the Dekalb County Farm Bureau . Eric W. Mogren . Copyright 2007 Agricultural History Society 2007 Agricultural History Fall land and land health. Tracing the shift from the view that nature degener ated if left alone to the belief...

...Clifford M. Kuhn Abstract During the early 1940s Greene County, Georgia's, Unified Farm Program, a model undertaking coordinating the efforts of federal, state, and local agencies, attracted national attention, largely through the work of sociologist Arthur Raper. At the core of the program...

...J. Elliott Russo Abstract The uses of enslaved labor outside the context of staple crop production become evident through an examination of colonial Somerset County, the southernmost Maryland county on the Chesapeake Bay’s Eastern Shore. By the early eighteenth century, conditions in Somerset...

...Royden Loewen Garden Spot: Lancaster County, the Old Order Amish, and the Selling of Rural America . David J. Walbert . Copyright 2005 Agricultural History Society 2005 Book Reviews / 385 Garden Spot: Lancaster County, the Old Order Amish, and the Selling of Rural America. By David J...

...Angela Firkus Purebred and Homegrown: America’s County Fairs . Drake Hokanson and Carol Kratz . © 2010 Agricultural History Society 2010 AgriculturHalistory Spring ofAmericanagricultureT.hese analysesare not overlycomplex- readers withan understandinogf basic economicsand...

... 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 978-09800897-7-6. Recent work on the history of northeast Arkansas has shown that a handful of men emerged as pioneers...

...Brady Banta Preface to Peasantry: A Tale of Two Black Belt Counties . Arthur F. Raper . Copyright 2007 Agricultural History Society 2007 Book Reviews Preface to Peasantry: A Tale of Two Black Belt Counties. By Arthur F. Raper. Columbia: Universityof South Carolina Press, 2005. 427 pp...

... County College Indentured Servitude: Unfree Labour and Citizenship in the British Colonies. By Anna Suranyi. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen s University Press, 2021. 288 pp., $37.95, paperback, ISBN 9780228006688. Anna Suranyi s survey of life for indentured servants creates a mosaic of stories...

... sure of himself. While Food Politics offers a handy primer for instructors, I think students need to know that world food problems and their solutions are less cut-and-dried than Paarlberg suggests. Warren Belasco University of Maryland Baltimore County The Agrarian Vision: Sustainability...

... Kars University of Maryland Baltimore County Lowcountry Time and Tide:The Fall of the South Carolina Rice Kingdom. By James H. Tuten. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2010. 200 pp., $34.95, hardback, ISBN 978-1-57003-926-3. The literature on the rice culture of the South Atlantic coast...

...-handed commitment to democracy. They merged social science with local knowledge and integrated federal action with citizen participation. These activist principles were best exemplified in a Third New Deal program called county land-use planning, within which sociologists played two roles. First...

...Geoff Cunfer Abstract In 1936–1937 the US Soil Conservation Service conducted a reconnaissance survey of the Dust Bowl, the area of worst wind erosion on the southern Great Plains. Providing farm-level detail and covering twenty-six counties in five states—some twenty-seven million acres or forty...

... messages about gender as well. Although most cookbooks came from cities, some do exist from rural areas. Analyzing their structure and content shows much about how rural housewives thought about food and about their communities. The Fannin County Home demonstration Club's Cook Book (1933) is an excellent...