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...Kent Blaser On the Great Plains: Agriculture and Environment . Geoff Cunfer . Copyright 2007 Agricultural History Society 2007 2007 Book Reviews American agriculture to share center stage with conventional agriculture. Nevertheless, the grist for such an explanatory framework can...

...Nancy Langston Seeing the Forest and the Trees: Human-Environment Interactions in Forest Ecosystems . Emilio F. Moran and Elinor Ostrom . Copyright 2007 Agricultural History Society 2007 2007 Book Reviews the district officer,both ofwhom were British.Within modern Malaysia...

...Katherine Blouin The Lived Nile: Environment, Disease, and Material Colonial Economy in Egypt . By Jennifer L. Derr . Palo Alto : Stanford University Press , 2019 . 264 pp., $26.00 , paperback, ISBN 978-1-5036-0965-5. © 2020 Agricultural History Society 2020 156 Agricultural...

...Hiʻilei Julia Hobart Braided Waters: Environment and Society in Molokai, Hawaiʻi . By Wade Graham . Oakland : University of California Press , 2018 . 312 pp., $70.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-5202-9859-0. © 2020 Agricultural History Society 2020 158 Agricultural History...

..., preservation, cultural identity, and the histories of science and environmentalism. Chapter Two, after distinguishing the different methodological approaches of humanists and scientists when considering the environment, suggests a multi-disciplinary STEALTH approach, broadening the more widely integration...

... of the major lines of thought can be mentioned. Sagoff establishes and defends a much more limited role for econom? ics in environmental studies and decision procedures than many in environ? mental economics would accept. Although environmental decisions would be more efficiently made if everything within...

...). 21. For more on the inadaptability of European-origin animals to the tropics and the introduction of zebu to Brazil, see my "Zebu's Elbows: Cattle Breeding and the Environ ment in Central Brazil, 1890-1960," in Territories, Commodities and Knowledges: Latin American Environmental Histories...

...Ken Sylvester Plowed Under: Agriculture and Environment in the Palouse . Andrew P. Duffin . © 2010 Agricultural History Society 2010 AgriculturHalistory Winter unclearina conclusionthatfeelsmorerushedthanconclusiveN. evertheless, roEvedseeornll'voseoed...

...Levi Van Sant The Agri-Environment . John Warren , Clare Lawson and Ken Belcher . © 2010 Agricultural History Society 2010 Book Reviews Global/Comparative TheAgriE-nvironmenBty. JohnWarrenC,lareLawson,andKenBelcherN. ew York:CambridgUe niversitPyress2, 008.232pp60.00p...

...Evan P. Bennett Making a Living. Work and Environment in the United States . Chad Montrie . © 2010 Agricultural History Society 2010 AgriculturHalistory Winter Makinga Living.WorakndEnvironmeninttheUnitedStatesB. yChadMontrie. ChapelHill:UniversitoyfNorthCarolinaPress...

...Kwangmin Kim Empire and Environment in the Making of Manchuria . Edited by Norman Smith . Vancouver : UBC Press , 2017 . 316 pp., $34.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-0-7748-3290-8. © 2019 Agricultural History Society 2019 Book Reviews 189 Warren notes that until the recent rise...

...Adam H. Petty Extreme Civil War: Guerrilla Warfare, Environment, and Race on the Trans-Mississippi Frontier . By Matthew M. Stith . Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press , 2016 . 232 pp., $42.50 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-8071-6314-6. © 2019 Agricultural History Society...

...Aaron Thomas Engineering the Environment: Phytotrons and the Quest for Climate Control in the Cold War . By David P. D. Munns . Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press , 2017 . 360 pp., $49.95 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-8229-4474-4. © 2019 Agricultural History Society 2019...

...Robert E. Bonner The Dam and the Valley: Land, People, and Environment Twentieth Century Below Buffalo Bill Dam in the ROBERT E. BONNER In 1915 the United States Reclamation Service (USRS) chose the Shoshone Project in Wyoming as the model for the reclamation idea at the PanamaPacific Exposition...

...April Merleaux Sovereign Sugar: Industry and Environment in Hawai'i . By Carol MacLennan . Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press , 2014 . 392 pp., $39.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-8248-3949-9 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2015 2015 Agricultural History Fall At the same...

...Evan P. Bennett A Golden Weed: Tobacco and Environment in the Piedmont South . By Drew A. Swanson . New Haven : Yale University Press , 2014 . 360 pp., $45.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-300-19116-5 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2015 2015 Agricultural History Fall...

...Mark Swislocki Food and Environment in Early and Medieval China . By E. N. Anderson . Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press , 2014 . 352 pp., $45.50 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-8122-4638-4 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2015 2015 Book Reviews Asia Food...

... structures the book conceptually, starting with the monks perceptions and depictions of local environments and finishing with the multifarious applications of environmental rhetoric to monastic identity and politics. Arnold continually questions our essentializing definition of wilderness as opposed...

...Jenny Leigh Smith The Plough that Broke the Steppes: Agriculture and Environment on Russia's Grasslands, 1700–1914 . By David Moon . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2013 . 344 pp., £69.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-955643-4 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2015 2015 2015...

... systems. Lamenting the slow development of roles for scientists in environmental management, Holland offers a balanced account of the ignorance and learning that created many new humanized environments. Remarkable for its painstaking research among farm records, Home in the Howling Wilderness offers both...