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...Mark D. Hersey Abstract Though they are often seen as foils for each other, ecology and agricultural science co-evolved. With shared roots in late nineteenth-century botany, ecologists and agronomists fostered important connections during the Progressive Era that have been largely overlooked...

...Greig Guthey Napa Valley Historical Ecology Atlas: Exploring A Hidden Landscape of Transformation and Resilience . By Robin Grossinger . Berkeley : University of California Press , 2012 . 240 pp., $39.95 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-520-26910-1 . © the Agricultural History Society...

...Edward D. Melillo Ecology and Power: Struggles over Land and Material Resources in the Past, Present, and Future . Edited by Alf Hornborg, Brett Clark, and Kenneth Hermele . New York : Routledge , 2012 . 312 pp., $49.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-0-415-64308-5 . © the Agricultural...

...Sterling Evans Political Ecology in a Yucatec Maya Community . E. N. Anderson . Copyright 2007 Agricultural History Society 2007 2007 BookReviews studies and analyzes it to show the original diversification of rural economic strategies from region to region.He then describes the rapid...

... Spring (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001 ) Michael Watts , Silent Violence: Food, Famine, and Peasantry in Northern Nigeria (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1983 ) Lawrence S. Grossman , The Political Ecology of Bananas: Contract Farming, Peasants...

...Dan Flores Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England . William Cronon . Copyright 2004 Agricultural History Society 2004 Twenty Years On: Thoughts on Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England DAN FLORES Changes in the Land...

...Charles Musiba Human Ecology in Wadi Al-Hasa: Land Use and Abandonment through the Holocene . J. Brett Hill . Copyright 2008 Agricultural History Society 2008 2008 BookReviews productivity and output frommedieval tithe.This is a data-rich study, and tables and figures are presented...

...Alan Mikhail Millennial Landscape Change in Jordan: Geoarchaeology and Cultural Ecology . Carlos E. Cordova . Copyright 2007 Agricultural History Society 2007 Book Reviews Middle East Millennial Landscape Change inJordanG: eoarchaeology and Cultural Ecology. By Carlos E. Cordova...

...Sean Gouglas Bound in Twine: The History and Ecology of the Henequen-Wheat Complex for Mexico and the American and Canadian Plains, 1880–1950 . Sterling Evans . © 2009 Agricultural History Society 2009 2009 BookReviews a usefulintroductiotnoall thingscitrusA. nd itmayinspirea...

...Chad Raymond Book Reviews Asia Farming with Fire and Water: The Human Ecology of a Composite Swid dening Community inVietnam's Northern Highland. By Tran Duc Vien, A.Terry Rambo, and Nguyen Thanh Lam. Kyoto: Kyoto University Press, 2009.456 pp., $89.95, hardback, ISBN 978-1-920901-29-5. Farming...

.... If not, can composite swidden agriculture, as one author asks, accommodate further increases in population? The answer to thisquestion will have to be found in another book. Chad Raymond Salve Regina University Africa Ecology of African Pastoralist Societies. By Katherine Homewood. Athens: Ohio University...

...Francisco Bonilla Ecology and Power in the Age of Empire: Europe and the Transformation of the Tropical World . By Corey Ross . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2017 . 512 pp., $60.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-1995-9041-4. © 2019 Agricultural History Society 2019 186...

..., especially because the latter survived despite racist hostility. Ferguson claims that interracial cooperation was as southern as its warped adversary Jim Crow, but they never had parity as the evidence of his book illustrates (7). Mark Newman University of Edinburgh Yellow Fever, Race, and Ecology...

...Frederick R. Davis The Law and Ecology of Pesticides and Pest Management . By Mary Jane Angelo . Burlington : Ashgate Publishing , 2013 . 264 pp., $124.95 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-7546-7431-3 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2015 2015 2015 Book Reviews (267). Intensive...

...Andrea E. Williams The Ecology of Pastoralism . Edited by P. Nick Kardulias . Boulder : University Press of Colorado , 2015 . 272 pp., $70.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-1-60732-343-3. © 2016 Agricultural History Society 2016 2016 Book Reviews lations, compare dna structures from...

...Kathryn Newfont The Commons in History: Culture, Conflict, and Ecology . By Derek Wall . Cambridge : MIT Press , 2014 . 184 pp., $27.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-262-02721-2. © 2016 the Agricultural History Society 2016 Agricultural History Spring The Commons in History: Culture...

...Zaheer Baber Ecology, Colonialism, and Cattle: Central India in the Nineteenth Century . Laxman D. Satya . Copyright 2008 Agricultural History Society 2008 2008 BookReviews tieth century. These economic pressures were the result of Thai-Mien in teractions; for example, only largeMien...

...Maria Elizabeth Kennedy [email protected] The Orchards of Eastern England: History, Ecology, and Place . By Gerry Barnes and Tom Williamson . Hatfield, UK : University of Hertfordshire Press , 2021 . 270 pp., $33.95 , paperback, ISBN 9781912260423 . Copyright...

...Maxim Korolkov [email protected] The King's Harvest: A Political Ecology of China from the First Farmers to the First Empire . By Brian Lander . New Haven, CT : Yale University Press , 2021 . 320 pp., $40.00 , hardback, ISBN 9780300255089. Copyright ©...

...James E. Hansen, II A Green and Permanent Land: Ecology and Agriculture in the Twentieth Century . Randal S. Beeman and James A. Pritchard . Copyright 2001 Agricultural History Society 2001 Book Reviews A Green and Permanent Land: Ecology and Agriculture in the Twentieth Century...