...Thomas Sinclair Empires of Food: Feast, Famine, and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations . By Evan D. G. Fraser and Andrew Rimas . New York : Free Press , 2010 . 320 pp., $27.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-1-4391-0189-6 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2012 2012 Agricultural...

...Yusheng Yao Gourmets in the Land of Famine: The Culture and Politics of Rice in Modern Canton . By Seung-Joon Lee . Stanford : Stanford University Press , 2011 . 320 pp., $55.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-08047-7226-6 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2012 2012 Agricultural...

...Benjamin Siegel Famine in the Remaking: Food System Change and Mass Starvation in Hawaii, Madagascar, and Cambodia . By Stian Rice . Morgantown : West Virginia University Press , 2020 . 264 pp., $29.99 , paperback, ISBN 978-1-949199-34-5. © 2021 Agricultural History Society 2021...

...Aaron Hale-Dorrell Famine in European History . Edited by Guido Alfani and Cormac Ó Gráda . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2017 . 336 pp., $31.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-1 3168-4123-5 . © 2018 Agricultural History Society 2018 Book Reviews 621 Indeed, the book...

... an important opportunity to take stock, to reflect further on important transnational connections, and to chart new paths forward for national and regional histories. Jackson R. Perry Georgetown University Famine Relief in Warlord China. By Pierre Fuller. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University East Asia Center...

.... The rich detail provided on everyday colonial and plantation life is not only useful to those interested in Saint-Domingue, but also in the plantation societies of the wider Caribbean. Dexnell Peters Exeter College, University of Oxford Africa Farming and Famine: Landscape Vulnerability in Northeast...

...Sherry L. Smith Feast or Famine: Food and Drink in American Westward Expansion . Reginald Horsman . © 2010 Agricultural History Society 2010 AgriculturHalistory Spring sparklotsofclassdiscussionaboutissuesin environmentalismag,riculture, landuse,and socialproblemsb,othpastand...

...Judith Shapiro Famine Politics in Maoist China and the Soviet Union . By Felix Wemheuer . New Haven : Yale University Press , 2014 . 344 pp., $65.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-300-19581-1 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2015 2015 Agricultural History Fall explanations...

...Karen-Beth G. Scholthof Atlas of the Great Irish Famine . Edited by John Crowley, William J. Smyth, and Mike Murphy . New York : New York University Press , 2012 . 728 pp., $75.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-8147-7148-8 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2015 2015 Book Reviews...

...Michael Gelb After the Holodomor: The Enduring Impact of the Great Famine on Ukraine . Edited by Andrea Graziosi, Lubomyr A. Hajda, and Halyna Hryn . Cambridge : Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute/Harvard University Press , 2013 . 276 pp., $29.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-1-932650-10...

...Elena Conis The Chemical Age: How Chemists Fought Famine and Disease, Killed Millions, and Changed Our Relationship with the Earth . By Frank A. von Hippel . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 2020 . 368 pp., $29.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-2266-9724-6. © 2021 Agricultural...

..., distribution networks, and roles of relief workers, among others, became points of discussion and an open confrontation ensued among different organizations. This article analyzes competing visions of US famine relief to Soviet Russia during the devastating Volga famine of 1921–23. Unofficially presided over...

... cadres’ mismanagement of agricultural production was responsible for the decline in grain output, and the communist state’s excessive requisition of grain caused food shortages for the peasants. But the key factor determining the famine’s uneven impact on the peasantry in the provinces was the degree...

...Peter Boomgaard Abstract Roots and tubers are not well documented in Indonesian historiography. Colonial civil servants regarded root crops as famine food, and they were rarely included in indigenous chronicles. This article presents data for the period 1500 to 1950 on the most important indigenous...

... development. In the 1860s the expansion of wasteland and the rising price of grain in provinces destroyed by the Taiping Rebellion convinced some to voice support for introducing labor-saving machinery into rural areas. In the 1870s the drought that catalyzed the North China Famine persuaded others...

...-twentieth century was a watershed event for many Mayan farmers in Guatemala. While some Maya hailed synthetic fertilizers’ immediate effectiveness as a relief from famines and migrant labor, others lamented the long-term deterioration of their public health, soil quality, and economic autonomy. Since...

... to Lochmaddy the day before in the chance of getting some potatoes from the factor. There was no food of any kind in the house (87). 324 2015 Book Reviews So ran the report by Robert Graham on visiting Barra during his investigation into the causes and possible solutions to the famine, or destitution...

...: 10.3098/ah.2011.85.3.345 345 Agricultural History Summer I also found out about the problems of politicized research. My first article presented previously secret archival data from the collective farms, which showed that the Soviet famine of the early 1930s resulted from a serious crop failure. Most...

... York University Abu Dhabi United Arab Emirates Famine Politics in Maoist China and the Soviet Union. By Felix Wemheuer. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2014. 344 pp., $65.00, hardback, ISBN 978-0-300-19581-1. This book has a deliberately provocative thesis we should ask not why the two great...

... role of the cities and of grain export policy. The famine was a structural failure involving many actors and institutions rather than a simple struggle between the state and the peasantry. In essence, the Communist Party of China abrogated its roots as a peasant party and sacrificed the countryside...