...Sherry L. Smith Feast or Famine: Food and Drink in American Westward Expansion . Reginald Horsman . © 2010 Agricultural History Society 2010 AgriculturHalistory Spring sparklotsofclassdiscussionaboutissuesin environmentalismag,riculture, landuse,and socialproblemsb,othpastand...

... inexpensive electric power while also providing adequate flood relief, year-round irrigation for the dry southern coast, and abundant reserves of clean drinking water. As with other PRRA projects, all property, constructions, and lands of the rural electrification program were transferred to the local...

... that included agriculture, packing plants, milling, and manufacturing. The Missouri and its tributaries not only flushed waste but also provided the drinking water for this fast-growing population. During the Progressive Era, pollution pressures on the river reached critical mass, prompting concern among...

... pages of defining terms is in reality Bohling s central argument, that the rise of appellation wines was more than just a creation of (often rich) French artisans who struggled to maintain their craft in the face of postwar industrialization, allowing the French to keep drinking their traditional...

...-30018191-3. The Culture of Food in England, 1200 1500 is the perfect title for C. M. Woolgar s newest book. As he notes, the question of culture is frequently ignored by historians of food, who instead focus upon economic or dietary questions. Woolgar s premise, then, is that food and drink mattered...

.... “Journal of a French Traveller in the Colonies, 1765, I,” The American Historical Review 26 , no. 4 (July 1921 ): 743 . While the naval blockades during the American Revolution would make whiskey the American drink of choice, before that conflict, rum (along with cider) was the alcoholic drink...

... of Food in England, 1200 1500 is the perfect title for C. M. Woolgar s newest book. As he notes, the question of culture is frequently ignored by historians of food, who instead focus upon economic or dietary questions. Woolgar s premise, then, is that food and drink mattered for a whole host of reasons...

..., Chisholm, and Western cattle trails. A. D. Cantrell says, "Sometimes I get so homesick for the old days. I shore would like to round up a few more thousand head of cattle and rope and brand and eat camp chuck. And drink hot black coffee with the boys. Yes sir, I shore would, and I'm not stuttering when I...

.... In an engaging way, Garfield shows how guarana, the main ingredient in a popular Brazilian soft drink, became much more than a fruit with stimulating properties. It is also a vibrant ingredient in the country's complex historical relationship between people and the natural environment. Garfield's book...

... and strangers heightened a sense of disorder at a time when an emergent rural middle class struggled to regulate the drinking, gambling, and lighting of a growing group of young men, many of them farm laborers. The battle was between those who upheld middle-class val? ues of masculine self-control, and those...

... history that work neatly together to form a cohesive and multi-layered account of tequila?the plant, the drink, and the industry. The authors have written an enjoyable and highly educational book on a topic with a surprisingly small English-language literature. Both authors provide their own introductions...

... brilliant, occasionally frustrating, business and environmental history of coca-cola. This is not a Whiggish account of the soft drink company s global conquest. nor is it a straightforward story of imperial plunder. it is not an updated account of coke s branding savvy either. elmore does not even try...

... of methamphetamines. After a brief discourse on the history of illegal distilling in the region, Rehder turns his attention to the product itself, concluding: "My advice to you, even if you like likker [sic], is not to drink white lightning or moonshine or any other drink made this way. If you must have it, buy...

... a cohesive and multi-layered account of tequila?the plant, the drink, and the industry. The authors have written an enjoyable and highly educational book on a topic with a surprisingly small English-language literature. Both authors provide their own introductions that are lyrically written with the kind...

... / Agricultural History people in the art of wine drinking, develop the wine culture, and "market wines to the emotional level where customers would purchase wines." Neoprohibitionists, we are warned, "often attempted to lump wine with alcohol and destroy the beverage's food relationships"?a move that Geraci says...

... and company, 2015. 432 pp., $27.95, hardback, iSBn 9780-393-24112-9. Bartow J. elmore has written a new, sometimes brilliant, occasionally frustrating, business and environmental history of coca-cola. This is not a Whiggish account of the soft drink company s global conquest. nor is it a straightforward story...

..., soon endangered groundwater for drinking purposes as farm? ers forced nature to return dividends beyond its natural bounty. Moreover, by the late 1980s, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) considered agriculture a major cause of ground water pollution from chemicals. In 1987, the EPA reported...

... leaves behind all of us, with sorrow in our hearts as we miss his warm companionship, unguarded friendship, and wry humor. Fred gave everyone his time. Whether at the bar over drinks (he never drank, but always bought), on uncomfortable hotel seats in a panel session, or at breakfast, Fred gave us time...

... DuPuis , Nature’s Perfect Food: How Milk Became America’s Drink ( New York : New York University Press , 2002 ), Chpt. 5; Andrea S. Wiley , Re-imagining Milk: Cultural and Biological Perspectives ( New York : Routledge , 2011 ), Chpt. 2; and Hannah Velten , Milk: A Global History...

... of Engineers, Tulsa District , 2002 ); Winslow and Kister , Saline-Water Resources of Texas , 1 ; Hughes , Archeological Reconnaissance; Subchapter F: Drinking Water Standards Governing Drinking Water Quality and Reporting Requirements for Public Water Systems, Chapter 290 Public Drinking Water...