..., 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...

...Shana Bernstein Abstract In 1998 the United Farm Workers and Swanton Berry Farm signed the first contract between a union and an organic farm. Exploring this contract’s origins uncovers a previously hidden history of the 1990s as a time of possibility for coalitions among labor activists...

...Sue Harrington 2016 Book Reviews Anglo-Saxon Farms and Farming. by debby banham and rosamund Faith. oxford: oxford university Press, 2015. 353 pp., $110.00, hardback, iSbn 978-0-19-920794-7. This volume offers an excellent, in-depth exposition of the themes and issues surrounding the farming...

...Amrys O. Williams © 2017 Agricultural History Society 2017 Raise: What 4-H Teaches Seven Million Kids and How its Lessons Could Change Food and Farming Forever . By Keira Butler . Berkeley : University of California Press , 2014 . 216 pp., $24.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-0-520...

...Katie Holmes; Kylie Mirmohamadi Abstract Between 1926 and 1935 the Better Farming Train made seven trips to the Victorian Mallee region. Modeled on North American examples, the mission of the Train was to spread the “doctrine of better farming” to this wheat-growing region. The Train carried...

...: The American Farmer in the Twentieth Century ( Chicago : Ivan R. Dee , 2002 ). Scholars who have explored topics of agrarianism and intellectual development include Deborah Fitzgerald , Every Farm a Factory: The Industrial Ideal in American Agriculture ( New Haven : Yale University Press , 2010...

... 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...

...Robert Evenson Smallholders and Stockbreeders: Histories of Foodcrop and Livestock Farming in Southeast Asia . Peter Boomgaard and David Henley . Copyright 2007 Agricultural History Society 2007 2007 BookReviews will prove eye-opening to any reader unfamiliar with thisgreat...

...Brian Donahue Farming for Us All: Practical Agriculture & the Cultivation of Sustainability . Michael Mayerfeld Bell . Copyright 2007 Agricultural History Society 2007 2007 BookReviews state humanities and arts councils. Times are now harder for regional mu seums as well as family...

... of the publishers and editors of farm newspapers lived in cities and were influenced by progressive reformers, farm newspapers often reflected urban reform ideas. At the same time, farm newspapers provided space for opposing viewpoints by publishing letters to the editor. The coverage of agricultural education...

...Peter A. Russell Abstract The absence of dry farming techniques is the key element that many Canadian scholars use to explain the decade of delay in the agricultural development of the prairie region after the completion of the Canadian Pacific Railway in 1885. They have assumed that American...

...C. Britt Bousman The Late Archaic across the Borderlands: From Foraging to Farming . Bradley J. Vierra . Copyright 2007 Agricultural History Society 2007 2007 Book Reviews Raper criticized theNew Deal's agricultural programs for failing to ad dress adequately and realistically...

... to survive capitalism, and why? Hi ilei Julia Hobart Columbia University Organic Resistance: The Struggle over Industrial Farming in Postwar France. By Venus Bivar. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2018. 240 pp., $29.95, paperback, ISBN 978-1-4696-4118-8. In the three decades after 1945...

...Ian J. Jesse Abstract Canada experienced a surge of fur farming during the first half of the twentieth century to meet the demands of fashion. The practice was promoted as a relatively easy way in which rural people could earn great income. In the province of New Brunswick, where cash-earning...

...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...

..., the discipline has paid little heed to southern antebellum agricultural efforts beyond the commodity crops of rice and cotton. Following in the stead of the New Agricultural History’s awareness of environmental processes in shaping life and labor, “Sowing Diversity” identifies the root of truck farming...

...Casey Walsh Farming across Borders: A Transnational History of the North American West . Edited by Sterling Evans . College Station : Texas A&M Press , 2017 . 488 pp., $65.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-1-62349-568-8. © 2020 Agricultural History Society 2020 Book Reviews 677...

... for more complex forms of farming," Vance could not foresee that soon furnishing merchants would refashion the crop lien to facilitate poultry production. For some time, politicians, Vance, and a host of rural reformers waged an unsuccessful war against the crop lien, and its close relatives sharecropping...

...Larry Lev Agrarian Dreams: The Paradox of Organic Farming in California . Julie Guthman . Copyright 2006 Agricultural History Society 2006 368 / Agricultural History nuances and complexities of the story of the Florida Parishes. Thankfully, Hyde's strong volume has corrected...