...Margaret E. Derry The conclusion provides overviews on breeding from a general and international point of view by using the Dutch example to show how science interacts with traditional breeding. In doing so, the author confirms that this book is more than a study of Dutch agriculture...

... of depth on any specific topic by smartly weaving disparate strands of thought into a unified history of a complicated, vital, and evolving movement. James W. Feldman University of Wisconsin Oshkosh Rivalry for Trade in Tea and Textiles: The English and Dutch East India Companies (1700 1800). by Chris...

...Lee Zook Why Cows Learn Dutch and Other Secrets of Amish Farms . Randy James . Copyright 2007 Agricultural History Society 2007 2007 Book Reviews NOTE 1. Elwyn B. Robinson, "The Themes ofNorthDakota History," inThe Centennial Anthologyof "NorthDakota History,Journalof...

...Frank Uekoetter Five Centuries of Farming: A Short History of Dutch Agriculture 1500–2000 . By Jan Bieleman . Wageningen : Wageningen Academic Publishers , 2010 . 367 pp., $90.00 , paperback, ISBN 978-90-8686-133-0 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2012 2012 Agricultural...

...Liesbeth van de Grift Abstract Dutch social democrats were very involved in the debate over the colonization of land reclaimed from the Zuiderzee in the interwar years, despite the fact that socialist parties throughout Europe tended to focus their attention on urban rather than rural areas...

...Bert Theunissen Abstract This article analyzes the postwar transformation of the Dutch Warmblood farm horse into a riding horse. It gives special attention to the farmers’ practical breeding methods and to the role that scientists and government policymakers played in the transformation process...

... in Western Europe, 59 Alan Robinson , Dutch Organised Agriculture in International Politics, 1945–1960 (The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1961 ), 37 , 55 , 57-58 J. Frouws and J. Van Tatenhove, "Agriculture, Environment and the State: The Develop¬ ment of Agro-environmental Policy...

.... 264 pp., $26.95, paperback, ISBN 978-0-299-24864-2. Andrew Goss explores the relations between scientists and the state in the Indonesian archipelago while under Dutch colonial rule from the nineteenth century, through mid-twentieth century decolonization, and into recent decades in the Indonesian...

... of the Enlightenment in Indonesia. By Andrew Goss. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2011. 264 pp., $26.95, paperback, ISBN 978-0-299-24864-2. Andrew Goss explores the relations between scientists and the state in the Indonesian archipelago while under Dutch colonial rule from the nineteenth century, through mid...

... by smartly weaving disparate strands of thought into a unified history of a complicated, vital, and evolving movement. James W. Feldman University of Wisconsin Oshkosh Rivalry for Trade in Tea and Textiles: The English and Dutch East India Companies (1700 1800). by Chris nierstrasz. hampshire: Palgrave...

.... Java, together with Cuba and the beet sugar producers of imperial Germany (post-1870), dominated the world s output of industrially manufactured sugar or centrifugal sugar. Sugar, Steam and Steel aims to document how dutch-controlled Java went 258 2016 Book Reviews from being one of a number of minor...

...¨ derto¨ rn University Five Centuries of Farming: A Short History of Dutch Agriculture 1500 2000. By Jan Bieleman. Wageningen: Wageningen Academic Publishers, 2010. 367 pp., $90.00, paperback, ISBN 978-90-8686-133-0. This book is a shortened version of the author s Boeren in Nederland (2008), which...

... societies as living within nature (and vulnerable to its caprices). To support its claims, Scorched Earth carries the reader through a sweeping sequence of case studies: the sixteenth-century Dutch Revolt, the Spanish conquest of America, the Thirty Years' War, seventeenth-century Indigenous warfare...

... in the financing of the colony, leaving uncertain the extent of Dutch participation because of lack of sources. They demonstrate that the rise to dominance of sugar was much more complex and more gradual than the traditional historiography allows, to the extent that they would like to see the term "sugar...

... , The Technical Development of Royal Dutch/Shell: 1890–1940 ( The Hague : Royal Dutch Petroleum , 1957 ), 456 . 14. Richard A. Walker , The Conquest of Bread: 150 Years of Agribusiness in California ( New York : New Press , 2001 ), 13 ; Olmstead and Rhode , “The Evolution of California...

... of Holland: grain imports (Van Tielhof), the 626 / Agricultural History labor market (Van Dam), and economic relations between town and country (Ibelings). The volume ends with a contribution by Brenner himself in which he gives his own vision of the "Dutch case" and his reaction to the other articles...

.... Knight (on the Javanese sugar industry), M. R. Fernando (on village social differentiation and the development of off-farm labor), and Peter Boomgaard and Ben White (on the relationship of population growth to labor). Also, there is rather too much reliance on dated Dutch published sources...

... Boomgaard and Ben White (on the relationship of population growth to labor). Also, there is rather too much reliance on dated Dutch published sources such as the Landbouwatlas and the Encyclopaedië van Nederlandsch-Indië and an astonishing reluctance (a couple of exceptions to one side) to pay serious...

... himself in which he gives his own vision of the "Dutch case" and his reaction to the other articles. This book is an important contribution to the Brenner debate. It not only highlights the specific circumstances of the (until recently little known) "Dutch case," but also draws new information...

... demonstrate that the deagriculturalization of this productive acreage was neither in- evitable nor simply market-driven. Kings County's Dutch-American farmers engaged in extensive agri? culture, growing grains and raising livestock, until completion of the Erie Canal in 1825 brought competition from...