... prosperity. Kristalyn Shefveland University of Southern Indiana The American Farmer in the Eighteenth Century: A Social and Cultural History. By Richard Lyman Bushman. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2018. 400 pp., $40.00, hardback, ISBN 978-0-3002-2673-7. The American Farmer in the Eighteenth Century...

...Elizabeth Sanders Greenbackers, Knights of Labor, and Populists: Farmer-Labor Insurgency in the Late-Nineteenth-Century South . Matthew Hild . © 2009 Agricultural History Society 2009 2009 BookReviews GreenbackerKs,nightsofLabor,andPopulistsF: armer-LaborInsurgencyin theLate...

...Amanda McGee [email protected] Washington at the Plow: The Founding Farmer and the Question of Slavery . By Bruce A. Ragsdale . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press , 2021 . 388 pp., $29.95 , hardback, ISBN 9780674246386. Copyright © 2023 the Agricultural History Society...

... examines the work of the multifaceted, public-facing farmer through analyses of his personal life, rural work in Hertfordshire, and prolific agricultural publications and business ventures. The book traces Ellis's activities during a time of significant agricultural change in England. Drawing attention...

...Jon K. Lauck Prosperity Far Distant: The Journal of an American Farmer, 1933–1934 . By Charles M. Wiltse , edited by Michael J. Birkner . Athens : Ohio University Press , 2012 . 308 pp., $29.95 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-8214-1979-3 . © the Agricultural History society, 2014...

...Fred Quivik Murder of a Landscape: The California Farmer-Smelter War, 1897–1916 . By Khaled J. Bloom . Norman : Arthur H. Clark Company , 2010 . 233 pp., $34.95 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-87062-396-7 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2011 2011 Agricultural History Spring...

...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...

...Eric Walz Nikkei Farmer on the Nebraska Plains: A Memoir . By Hisanori Kano . Lubbock : Texas Tech University Press , 2010 . 256 pp., $34.95 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-89672-628-4 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2011 2011 Agricultural History Spring discussion of the Indian...

... reverse the trend of dependency by placing children with Americans of high esteem. Farmers, for their part, could expect labor from their placement children in exchange for care. The availability of dependent children filled an important farm labor need while attempting to satisfy the goals of reformers...

...Michael Decker Playing the Farmer: Representations of Rural Life in Vergil's Georgics . By Philip Thibodeau . Berkeley : University of California Press , 2011 . 336 pp., $60.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-520-268326 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2013 2013 Agricultural...

...Audra J. Wolfe Copyright 2000 Agricultural History Society 2000 [Footnotes] 1 John E. Pickett, "How Not to Electrocute the Farmer," Pacific Rural Press, 28 March 1925 by Ruth Dasmann, tape recording, 26 September 1984 Rural Electrification Administration in 1985 2 Jane...

...Thomas Hallock 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 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2015...

...J. V. Beckett The Farmer in England, 1650–1980 . Edited by Richard W. Hoyle . Burlington : Ashgate , 2013 . 358 pp., £80.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-1-4094-3961-5 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2015 2015 Agricultural History Spring wide archaeological data on a problem...

... in a desperate attempt to use flooding to slow the advance of the Japanese Imperial Army, turned millions of Chinese farmers into refugees and killed over eight hundred thousand people. This essay explores the human and social sides of the flood through the eyes of local observers, missionaries, and the wartime...

...Thomas Summerhill The British Gentry, the Southern Planter, and the Northern Family Farmer: Agriculture and Sectional Antagonism in North America . By James L. Huston . Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University , 2015 . 376 pp., $47.50 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-8071-5918-7. © 2016...

...Scott J. Peters Abstract Historians have portrayed the formative period of agricultural extension work in the United States as a search for the best method of convincing farmers to change their farming practices in order to improve agricultural efficiency, productivity, and profitability. However...

...Jon Lauck From Prairie Farmer to Entrepreneur: The Transformation of Midwestern Agriculture . Dennis S. Nordin and Roy V. Scott . Copyright 2007 Agricultural History Society 2007 Agricultural History Spring not always persuasive. For instance, the argument against an economic...

...Richard Buel, Jr. A Tale of New England: The Diaries of Hiram Harwood, Vermont Farmer, 1810-1837 . Robert A. Shalhope and Hiram Harwood . Copyright 2004 Agricultural History Society 2004 242 / Agricultural History A Tale ofNew England: The Diaries ofHiram Harwood, Vermont Farmer...

...C. Fred Williams From Missouri: An American Farmer Looks Back . By Thad Snow . Edited by Bonnie Stepenoff . Columbia : University of Missouri Press , 2012 . 304 pp., $25.00 , paperback, ISBN 978-0-8262-1990-9 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2013 2013 Agricultural...

...Jaclyn J. S. Miller Farmers Helping Farmers: The Rise of the Farm and Home Bureaus, 1914–1935 . By Nancy K. Berlage . Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press , 2016 . 328 pp., $48.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-8071-6330-6 . © 2018 Agricultural History Society 2018 Book...