..., and the authorities were glad to avoid surpluses. On the input side, the area of arable land decreased, and the labor force declined drastically, primarily due to fewer smallholdings and fewer employees on the largest farms. Moreover, the decade saw a huge wave of mechanization, in the form of tractors...

...Lester L. Field, Jr. Farming in the First Millennium AD: British Agriculture between Julius Caesar and William the Conqueror . Peter Fowler . Copyright 2004 Agricultural History Society 2004 Book Reviews / 255 recognize that corn was a New World crop and that once the Europeans...

... of these traumatic events. Thus, combining a Pima voice and modern technology illustrates the depth of hardship facing the Pima a century ago Copyright 2007 Agricultural History Society 2007 Notes 1 C. H. Southworth, "Field Notes for 1914 Survey of Pima Indian Farming and Irrigation on Gila...

...Thomas A. Lyson Good Growing: Why Organic Farming Works . Leslie A. Duram . Copyright 2007 Agricultural History Society 2007 Agricultural History Spring few years later, two-thirds were opposed. Four years ago, three-quarters of Americans supported the War in Iraq; now, less than half...

...,epdicpkiliensgroifppeibcoklelsd,dcortivtoinn-gmbeucthwaeniecnaclcooutntotneprtihcke werosre,vkeonf weighingb,aling,loading,and unloadingthe staplelong afterit has been 548 © 2009 Agricultural History Society 2009 Traditional American Farming Techniques, 2 nd Edition . Frank D. Gardner . ...

...Barbara Steinson From Pioneering to Persevering: Family Farming in Indiana to 1880 . Paul Salstrom . © 2010 Agricultural History Society 2010 2010 Book Reviews centurieosfDutchfarmingH.is presentationofthehistoryofagriculturaes...

...Paul Kristiansen Organic Farming: An International History . William Lockeretz . © 2009 Agricultural History Society 2009 2009 Book Reviews the Group of 20 (developingcountriesfavoringprotectionisma),nd the Groupof33 (protectionisdtevelopingcountries)w; hatledtothebreakdown...

...David R. Stead A History of Irish Farming, 1750–1950 . Jonathan Bell and Mervyn Watson . © 2010 Agricultural History Society 2010 2010 Book Reviews Maintaining international ties and progressive ideas, these gardens became themodels for experiment stations thatwere constructed...

... primarily because of labor-intensive farming methods, ingenuity, and the large markets provided by the centers. These agricultural programs played major roles in feeding, providing meaningful employment, and preparing evacuees for life outside the centers, and readied lands for post-war "homesteaders." ©...

...Chad Raymond Farming with Fire and Water: The Human Ecology of a Composite Swiddening Community in Vietnam’s Northern Highland . Tran Duc Vien , A. Terry Rambo and Nguyen Thanh Lam . © 2010 Agricultural History Society 2010 Book Reviews Asia Farming with Fire and Water...

...Claire J. Du Laney The Takeover: Chicken Farming and the Roots of American Agribusiness . By Monica R. Gisolfi . Athens : University of Georgia Press , 2017 . 128 pp., $24.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-0-8203-4971-8. © 2019 Agricultural History Society 2019 376 Agricultural History...

...Amanda Lewis-Nang’ea Farming and Famine: Landscape Vulnerability in Northeast Ethiopia, 1889–1991 . By Donald E. Crummey . Edited by James C. McCann . Madison : University of Wisconsin Press , 2018 . 312 pp., $79.95 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-299-31630-3. © 2019 Agricultural...

...Mark Newman Remaking the Rural South: Interracialism, Christian Socialism, and Cooperative Farming in Jim Crow Mississippi . By Robert Hunt Ferguson . Athens : University of Georgia Press , 2018 . 240 pp., $56.95 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-8203-5179-7. © 2019 Agricultural History...

...Andy Bruno Corn Crusade: Khrushchev’s Farming Revolution in the Post-Stalin Soviet Union . By Aaron Hale-Dorrell . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2019 . 344 pp., $74.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-1906-4467-3. © 2019 Agricultural History Society 2019 Book Reviews 757 pealed...

.... Glover , Farm and College: The College of Agriculture of the University of Wisconsin, A History (Madison: Univer¬ sity of Wisconsin Press, 1952 ), 16 -17 Jack Ralph Kloppenburg Jr., First the Seed: The Political Economy of Plant Biotechnology, 1492–2000 (New York: Cambridge...

...Connie L. Lester In Old Virginia: Slavery, Farming, and Society in the Journal of John Walker . Claudia L. Bushman . Copyright 2002 Agricultural History Society 2002 744 / Agricultural History always on "data-based assessments." Non-economists are likely to read each chapter...

...Marilyn Morris The Transformation of Rural England: Farming and the Landscape, 1700–1870 . Tom Williamson . Copyright 2002 Agricultural History Society 2002 Book Reviews / 741 intersection of religion and rurality in general and in the Anabaptist tradition in particular. Rebecca...

...Jane Adams Our Common Country: Family Farming, Culture, and Community in the Nineteenth-Century Midwest . Susan Sessions Rugh . Copyright 2002 Agricultural History Society 2002 704 / Agricultural History slaves in southeastem Louisiana adjusted to the free market rapidly and were...

... of synthesis, however, The Real Agricultural Revolution is extremely successful. Its detailed description of the productionist heyday of British farming represents the most significant historiographical contribution since John Martin's The Development of Modern British Agriculture: British Farming since...