... and Properties of Soils , 14th ed. ( Upper Saddle River, NJ : Pearson Prentice Hall , 2008 ), 92 , 104 , 107 . 4. Charles S. Plumb , Indian Corn Culture ( Chicago : Breeder's gazette print , 1895 ), 71 ; L. H. Bailey , Cyclopedia of American Agriculture : A Popular Survey...

...Noeleen McIlvenna The Ashley Cooper Plan: The Founding of Carolina and the Origins of Southern Political Culture . By Thomas D. Wilson . Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press , 2016 . 320 pp., $34.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-1-4696-2628-4 . © 2017 Agricultural History...

...Cindy R. Lobel Food and the City: Histories of Culture and Cultivation . Edited by Dorothée Imbert . Cambridge : Harvard University Press (Dumbarton Oaks) , 2015 . 388 pp., $55.00 , hardcover, ISBN 978-0-88402-404-0 . © 2017 Agricultural History Society 2017 256 Agricultural...

...Vincenza Scarpaci Creole Italian: Sicilian Immigrants and the Shaping of New Orleans Food Culture . By Justin Nystrom . Athens : University of Georgia Press , 2018, 224 pp., $26.95 , paperback, IBSN 978-0-82035-3555-5. © 2020 Agricultural History Society 2020 294 Agricultural...

...J. R. McNeill The Biology of Civilisation: Understanding Human Culture as a Force in Nature . Stephen Boyden . Copyright 2006 Agricultural History Society 2006 BookReviews / 497 ducersexpandedtheiroperationsacrossthe Southeast,with specialemphasis on the forestsof...

...Tom Brooking Disputed Territories: Land, Culture and Identity in Settler Societies . David Trigger and Gareth Griffiths . Copyright 2005 Agricultural History Society 2005 506 / Agricultural History but we also hear that "the hunter-gatherer persisted, not as a relict society...

...George B. Ellenberg Horses in Society: A Story of Animal Breeding and Marketing Culture, 1800-1920 . Margaret E. Derry . Copyright 2008 Agricultural History Society 2008 Global/Comparative AgriculturHalistory Spring Horses inSocietyA: StoryofAnimal BreedingandMarketingCulture, 1800...

...Mart Stewart The Earth Knows My Name: Food, Culture, and Sustainability in the Gardens of Ethnic Americans . Patricia Klindienst . Copyright 2008 Agricultural History Society 2008 2008 BookReviews is a provocative invitation to reexamine our understanding of race in America...

...Paul Cheney Meat Matters: Butchers, Politics and Market Culture in Eighteenth-Century Paris . Sydney Watts . Copyright 2008 Agricultural History Society 2008 2008 BookReviews "might have had much time to spare," but that they had few employment options besides working their own land...

...Alon Tal Arab/American: Landscape, Culture, and Cuisine in Two Great Deserts . Gary Paul Nabhan . © 2009 Agricultural History Society 2009 2009 BookReviews The "Animal"seriesthatthisdelightfuvlolumebelongsto has thusfar beendevotedtowildspeciesp, lusdogsanda prospectivbeookoncatsT...

...Gloria Main © 2009 Agricultural History Society 2009 Building the Bay Colony: Local Economy and Culture in Early Massachusetts . James E. Mc Williams . AgriculturHalistory Fall ibilityof his goals.The local environmenctould not supportlandedindependencewithoutthe embraceof...

... Armstrong Atlantic State University Acequia Culture: Water, Land, and Community in the Southwest. By Jose A. Rivera. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1998. 258 pp., $50.00, ISBN 0-8263-1858-4. This is a valuable book. It consists of documents and commentary ex? ploring the history...

... why the land reform failed to deliver the results it promised. Spe? cialists and nonspecialists alike will enjoy this well-crafted account. Alexander S. Dawson Montana State University Hog Ties: Pigs, Manure, and Mortality in American Culture. By Richard P. Horwitz. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998...

...John B. Boles Copyright 2000 Agricultural History Society 2000 American Dreams in Mississippi: Consumers, Poverty, & Culture, 1830-1998 . Ted Ownby . 834 / Agricultural History American Dreams in Mississippi: Consumers, Poverty, & Culture, 18301998. By Ted Ownby. Chapel Hill...

...Steven Topik © the Agricultural History Society, 2011 2011 Pineapple Culture: A History of the Tropical and Temperate Zones . By Gary Y. Okihiro . Berkeley : University of California Press , 2009 . 272 pp., $24.95 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-520-25513-5 . 2011 Book Reviews...

...Richard W. Judd © the Agricultural History Society, 2011 2011 Backwoods Consumers & Homespun Capitalists: The Rise of a Market Culture in Eastern Canada . By Béatrice Craig . Toronto : University of Toronto Press , 2009 . 349 pp., $75.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-8020-9317-2...

... as a writer, as well as his experiences with manual farm work and the methods of environmentalist organic growers. He eventually concluded that only a community of farmers could produce and store effective knowledge and insisted that knowledge must be tacit—largely situated in locality, skills, and culture...

...Adam W. Ebert The Quest for the Perfect Hive: A History of Innovation in Bee Culture . By Gene Kritsky . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2010 . 216 pp., $24.95 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-19-538544-1 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2011 2011 Agricultural History Spring...

... for the economic welfare of the nation. The case study of Exeter's Western Apiarian Society reveals precisely how popularization functioned in reality. The result is a more thorough history of scientific beekeeping and how the rhetoric of improvement related to the culture of practice. © the Agricultural History...

...Douglas McCalla The Ordinary People of Essex: Environment, Culture, and Economy on the Frontier of Upper Canada . By John Clarke . Montreal and Kingston : McGill-Queen's University Press , 2010 . 776 pp., $135.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-7735-3674-6 . © the Agricultural History...