...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...

...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...

...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...

... 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...

... 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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

... history. Leah S. Glaser Central Connecticut State University 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. As the United States industrialized in the nineteenth century...

...Paul B. Thompson Book Reviews North America 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. Editor Connie Faulk has collected thirty-seven...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...Peter Simons Abstract In 1944 the National Flying Farmers organized at Stillwater, Oklahoma. The organization took advantage of aviation's wartime growth to promote flight as an integral part of agricultural life that would modernize production, break down social barriers, and give farmers greater...

...Kristin Mapel Bloomberg Abstract The decades following the Civil War saw a proliferation of reform ideas about rural life, labor, and family and gender roles. Clara Bewick Colby's “Farmers' Wives” was a particularly robust example of women's late nineteenth-century oratory that used a gendered...