...Michael P. Johnson Masters of the Big House: Elite Slaveholders of the Mid-Nineteenth-Century South . William Kauffman Scarborough . Copyright 2005 Agricultural History Society 2005 Book Reviews / 225 Masters ofthe Big House: Elite Slaveholders ofthe Mid-Nineteenth-Century South...

...John Broad Elites et progrès agricole XVIe-XXe siècle . Edited by Nadine Vivier . Rennes, France : Presses Universitaires de Rennes , 2009 . 346 pp., €19.00 , paperback, ISBN 978-2-7535-0825-5 . The State and Rural Societies: Policy and Education in Europe, 1750–2000 . Edited...

...James D. Miller Agrarian Elites: American Slaveholders and Southern Italian Landowners, 1815-1861 . Enrico Dal Lago . Copyright 2008 Agricultural History Society 2008 2008 BookReviews the time spectrum are studies of the historical period, such as R. JW. asson's examination of soil...

...Philip Slavin Beyond Lords and Peasants: Rural Elites and Economic Differentiation in Pre-Modern Europe . Edited by Frederic Aparisi and Vicent Royo . Valencia : University of Valencia Press , 2014 . 256 pp., €20.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-84-370-9261-4 . © the Agricultural History...

...Frederic Aparisi Abstract During the last decade, rural historians have increasingly studied the wealthier sectors of rural communities. This paper seeks to analyze the economic activities of rural elites, focusing on the Midlands in the kingdom of Valencia during the fifteenth century...

...Jacob Steere-Williams Abstract This article examines the late nineteenth-century process whereby elite British dairy companies used the tools and the rhetoric of scientific management to gain market hegemony, marginalizing small and often rural dairy farmers. This was in the context of increased...

... a governmental role in the Federal Farm Loan System. Progressive Era farmers had succeeded in institutionalizing an idea that bankers opposed and the political elite otherwise never would have considered. The full consequences of this innovation in governance were unanticipated. The Federal Farm Loan System...

...Peter B. Lavelle Abstract In the second half of the nineteenth century, China experienced agricultural and ecological crises of increasing frequency and severity. This article shows how these crises fostered discussion among Chinese elites about the value of steam-powered machines for agricultural...

..., the architect of the Banco Nacional de Crédito Ejidal, sought to bureaucratize ejidatarios’ multifaceted and localized financial lives, disciplining them and channeling them away from their local communities toward national production plans set by governing elites, while using loans to uplift and moralize...

...—for example, the scientifically planned use of forests. This “high” modernization path orchestrated by the political and scientific elites of Hungary sought to consolidate control over resources, landscapes, and competing ethnic groups and was in many respects similar to the many other versions of high...

... Agricultural History the blind spots in contrasting positions of GM soybeans. Almost absent from the book is the role and views of agribusiness corporations and local and regional agrarian elites, creating an unbalanced picture of those who largely benefited from GM soybeans expansion. Diana Córdoba...

... local business elites, and that their politics, like anything else, has a history. Neither the region nor its people have been static. Perkins grounds his story in a Populist ethic that took shape in the late nineteenth century, when the People s Party the original populists sought to mobilize debt...

... is the role and views of agribusiness corporations and local and regional agrarian elites, creating an unbalanced picture of those who largely benefited from GM soybeans expansion. Diana Córdoba University of Victoria Industrial Forests and Mechanical Marvels: Modernization in NineteenthCentury Brazil...

... disenfranchisement. At the same time, Winston reflected national engagement with racial segregation practices: it mimicked other cities in its attempts to confine Black families to neighborhoods lacking in resources or with fewer advantages. But the author is particularly successful in demonstrating how elite...

..., on the other hand, endeared themselves to Rio's elites by providing capital and expertise to build up the city's infrastructure, while abolitionist intellectuals befriended and publicly defended Brazil's emperor, convinced that his promises of gradual emancipation were sincere. The remaining three chapters...

... the volume. Irrespective of the broader interpretation, the reader will learn an immense amount about the history of Russian land law and social change in the Russian countryside from Wegren s study. Douglas R. Weiner University of Arizona Elites et progrès agricole XVIe-XXe siècle. Edited by Nadine Vivier...

... by their participants? Some cities clearly were larger and more powerful than others, and even when the smaller cities were vassals, strictly speaking, their rulers still apparently used access to goods from the supercenters as a way of validating their own elite status. The authors pose a synthesis of different modes...

... haciendas intruded into the countryside because of lack of markets. In law there were two categories, Indians and Spaniards, but degrees of wealth, social mobility, illegitimacy, and the use of the Maya language by all groups began gradually to blur the distinction. Within Indian society, how? ever, elites...

... enslaved) in Russian elites' own self-conceptions of identity. Emancipated serfs received their freedom and a land allotment, but their legal inferiority remained. At the same time, the peasantry, for all its backwardness, still represented the soul of Russia. The peasant was thus inferior on some levels...

... agricultural labor system that evolved fol? lowing the Civil War to replace slavery. In addition, the economic stake that 716 / Agricultural History the landowning class had in this system caused the landed elite to oppose governmental welfare efforts. Only after mechanization and technology re? moved the need...