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..., Illinois State University, 1988 ). Restoring Traditions: A Photo Essay CYNTHIA VAGNETTI "For me, documentary photography matter of approach. The important how." is less a matter of subject and more a thing is not what's photographed but ?Dorothea Lange This quote from Dorothea Lange refers to not only...

...Paula Nelson The Identity of the American Midwest: Essays on Regional History . Andrew R. L. Cayton and Susan E. Gray . Copyright 2007 Agricultural History Society 2007 AgriculturHalistory Winter The Identitoyf thAe mericanMidwest:Essays onRegionalHistoryE. dited byAndrew R. L...

...Carrie Johns Farming and the Fate of Wild Nature: Essays in Conservation-Based Agriculture . Daniel Imhoff and Jo Ann Baumgarner . Copyright 2007 Agricultural History Society 2007 2009 BookReviews Arrow, Oklahoma, to the rich collections of theWisconsin Historical Society...

...Thomas Hallock © the Agricultural History Society, 2015 2015 Letters from an American Farmer and Other Essays . By J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur . Edited by Dennis D. Moore . Cambridge : Harvard University Press , 2013 . 416 pp., $35.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-674-05181-2...

... one is much better equipped to understand everyday life in rural england of a thousand years ago. Sue harrington University College London Peasants and Lords in the Medieval English Economy: Essays in Honour of Bruce M. S. Campbell. edited by maryanne Kowaleski, John langdon, and Phillipp r. Schofield...

...Paul B. Thompson Cultivating an Ecological Conscience: Essays from a Farmer Philosopher . By Frederick L. Kirschenmann . Lexington : University Press of Kentucky , 2010 . 420 pp., $40.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-8131-2578-7 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2011 2011 Book...

...Joyce Burnette Commercial Activity, Markets and Entrepreneurs in the Middle Ages: Essays in Honour of Richard Britnell . Edited by Ben Dodds and Christian D. Liddy . Woodbridge, Suffolk : Boydell Press , 2011 . 271 pp., $95.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-1-84383-684-1 . ©...

... local history as a scholarly endeavor and the region that it illuminates. [email protected] Histories of People and Landscape: Essays on the Sheffield Region in Memory of David Hey . Edited by R. W. Hoyle . Hertfordshire, UK : Hertfordshire University Press , 2021 . 218 pp., $79.95...

... Inquiétude dans les champs: Essai sur la gestion des exploitations agricoles dans l'espace francophone (vers 1730–vers 1830) . By Fulgence Delleaux . Louvain, Belgium : Louvain University Press , 2022 . 236 pp., $25.00 , paperback. ISBN 9782390612773 . Copyright © 2024 the Agricultural History...

...E. Stanly Godbold, Jr. Southern Agrarians and the New Deal: Essays after I’ll Take My Stand . Emily S. Bingham and Thomas A. Underwood . Copyright 2002 Agricultural History Society 2002 622 / Agricultural History spouses. In its contribution to our knowledge and its implications...

...Warren Elofson Black Earth and Ivory Tower: New American Essays from Farm and Classroom . Zachary Michael Jack . Copyright 2008 Agricultural History Society 2008 2008 BookReviews ingly alarmed by rights abridged by Republicans in Indiana and Washing ton, and the war proved incredibly...

...Douglas Helms Copyright 2008 Agricultural History Society 2008 The Furrow and Us: Essays on Soil and Sentiment . Walter Thomas Jack . 2008 Book Reviews on the credit systemwith the opening of theBUS Natchez Branch in 1831 and its closure in 1836. The study is best classified...

...William D. Shannon Town and Countryside in the Age of the Black Death: Essays in Honour of John Hatcher . Edited by Mark Bailey and Stephen Rigby . Turnhout : Brepols , 2012 . 511 pp., €110.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-2-503-53517-3 . © the Agricultural History society, 2014 2014...

...Gavin Wright Abstract This essay considers the role of slavery in American agricultural history by examining the impact of political decisions during the period when the boundary between free and slave states was not yet settled. This boundary was not dictated by geographic imperatives. In Kentucky...

...Anne Effland Abstract This essay suggests the “iron triangle” concept may have possibilities as a foundation for reorienting the farm bill. The essay incorporates the broader concept of “power clusters” to more accurately reflect the shaping of farm policy and to better illustrate the premise...

...Russell R. Menard Abstract This essay develops an American approach to the rise of the English Atlantic during the seventeenth century. It argues that productivity gains in plantation agriculture fueled an extraordinary expansion of commerce as planters raising tobacco, sugar, and rice improved...

...Timothy W. Lorek Abstract This essay revisits a 1947 article about race and colonial history in the Americas to uncover overlooked geographic and intellectual components of the emerging Green Revolution in agricultural technologies then in formation. It argues that Puerto Rico and the island’s...

...Shane Hamilton Abstract The field of agricultural history could benefit from interdisciplinary engagement with theoretical work. Rather than chiding agricultural historians for avoiding theory, this essay suggests specific ways in which many agricultural historians are already engaging with theory...

...Christopher A. Conte Abstract This essay argues that agroforestry is deeply embedded in the history of tropical agriculture in the Indian Ocean basin. Drawing on the example of Pemba Island, part of the Zanzibar Archipelago just off the coast of Tanzania, the essay studies a transitionary phase...

...James C. Giesen Abstract As scholars and singers have pointed out in monographs and folk songs, the cotton boll weevil was a devastating force on southern farming and rural life. No symbol is more indicative of this destruction than Enterprise, Alabama’s boll weevil monument. This essay examines...