...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...

...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...

... . Klingaman William K. , and Klingaman Nicholas P. The Year without Summer: 1816 and the Volcano That Darkened the World and Changed History . New York : St. Martin's , 2013 . Ladurie Emmanuel Le Roy . Times of Feast, Times of Famine: A History of Climate since the Year 1000 . Garden...

... Century (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2013); and Geoffrey Parker, History and Climate: The Crisis of the 1590s Reconsidered, in Climate Change and Cultural Transition in Europe, ed. Claus Leggewie and Franz Mauelshagen (Leiden: Brill, 2018), 119 55. 21. Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, Times of Feast...

... sparklotsofclassdiscussionaboutissuesin environmentalismag,riculture, landuse,and socialproblemsb,othpastand present. LaurieCarlson WesternOregonUniversity Feast or Famine: Food and Drink in American WestwardExpansion. By Reginald Horsman. Columbia: Universityof Missouri Press,2008. 368 pp39.95,hardback,ISBN 978-0-8262-1789-9...

...Richard W. Judd The Northeast’s Changing Forest . Lloyd C. Irland . Copyright 2001 Agricultural History Society 2001 Book Reviews / 259 however, Linder and Zacharias, in showing us a world that we need not and should not have lost, have provided a veritable feast for urban...

... of introducing the key themes of religious feasting, fasting, and food taboos as experienced by Jewish, Islamic, and Christian communities. Chapter 2 is more straightforwardly on bread and grains, although there are also religious debates to be had there. Chapter 3 is on vegetables and legumes (but includes...

... the spread of corn, throughout the Late Woodland and Emergent Mississippian periods. Chapters 6 and 7 deal with feasting, farming, and plant use in the greater Cahokia area. Chapter 8 challenges existing interpretations of red stone figurines excavated at Cahokia. Traditionally, the figurines were viewed...

... consider to be adulterated or not is a moveable feast, both geographically and in time. What additives are acceptable in food is a changing cultural issue. For example, in 2012 Starbucks stopped using cochineal, a red dye extracted from beetles, as some customers found it distasteful. Yet cochineal has...

... critique of hacienda wealth. Saints' feasts appear as spaces of partial indigenous autonomy where rela tions across the base of the social triangle are reinforced through reciprocal exchange. An understanding of the complexity of these relations is dimin ished, unfortunately, by the lack of detail...

... Historical Society s meticulously recreated living history site, Old World Wisconsin, provides her readers with a feast for the eyes and food for thought. Carmichael uses foodways and gardening practices to contextualize the life experiences of nineteenth-century immigrants to rural Wisconsin. Beautiful...

... Historical Society Press, 2011. 256 pp., $24.95, paperback, ISBN 978-0-87020-466-1. In Putting Down Roots, Marcia Carmichael, working closely with the staff at the Wisconsin Historical Society s meticulously recreated living history site, Old World Wisconsin, provides her readers with a feast for the eyes...

... as closely as possible at guild feasts and transmitted to the higher ranks of the peasantry (with modifications). At the same time, however, rustic cuisine, such as sausages and preserved foods, were popular among the nobility; elites even hired peasant women to prepare it for them. Nor are such practices...

... to rations because they were an autocratic people; Americans were different.) By the 1920s, Veit tells us, this same logic had birthed a culture obsessed with thinness and a rhetoric of self-control that blamed and denied personhood to fat people. Modern Food is a feast of fascinating stories from the era...

..., formerly luxuries for this inland county. Extensive quotes from local people enrich the historic accounts and the explanations of the social uses of foods and food exchanges. Moonshadow Pond is typical of China in its use of foods and feasts to mark every social occasion. Social transactions create...

..., have provided a veritable feast for urban, agricultural, and regional historians. Kathleen Smith Kutolowski State University ofNew York at Brockport The Northeast's Changing Forest. By Lloyd C. Irland. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1999. 416 pp., $50.00, hardback, ISBN 0-674-62680-X. As David...

... on faith, as it once survived on agriculture, and draws spiritual, ifnot actual sustenance from the land it hopes someday to reclaim. At seven thirty in the evening of June 21,2002, the solstice sun has not yet set in San Luis, New Mexico. It is the weekend of the Feast of San Luis de Gonzaga, patron saint...

... time. Regarding the social element, the author shows there was a culture of refined dining cultivated by the elite, which was emulated as closely as possible at guild feasts and transmitted to the higher ranks of the peasantry (with modifications). At the same time, however, rustic cuisine...

... landscape, in this case producing sugar on the mainland opposite Pemba, see Jonathan Glassman, Feast and Riot: Revelry, Rebellion, and Popular Consciousness on the Swahili Coast, 1856–1888 (Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 1995), 82–83. 17. Richard B. Allen, “Satisfying the ‘Want for Labouring People...

... of Pennsylvania Press, 2012. 240 pp., $39.95, hardback, ISBN 978-0-8122-4418-2. 442 2014 Book Reviews Thanksgiving, the only national holiday that commemorates America s colonial origins, focuses on feasting. Rightly so, Michael LaCombe argues, since food played such a crucial role in shaping the history...