...Jim Norris Florida’s Working-Class Past: Current Perspectives on Labor, Race, and Gender from Spanish Florida to the New Immigration . Robert Cassanello and Melanie Shell-Weiss . © 2010 Agricultural History Society 2010 Agricultural History Fall Despite its flaws, there ismuch...

...Evan P. Bennett The Swamp Peddlers: How Lot Sellers, Land Scammers, and Retirees Built Modern Florida and Transformed the American Dream . By Jason Vuic . Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press , 2021 . 272 pp., $24.95 , paperback, ISBN 9781469663333. © 2021...

...Robert Gudmestad Florida Plantation Records from the Papers of George Noble Jones . George Noble Jones , Ulrich Bonnell Phillips and James David Glunt . Copyright 2008 Agricultural History Society 2008 2008 Florida Plantation Records from the Papers of George Noble Jones...

...Mark V. Wetherington Rails through the Wiregrass: A History of the Georgia & Florida Railroad . H. Roger Grant . Copyright 2008 Agricultural History Society 2008 Agricultural History Fall Rails through theWiregrass: A History of theGeorgia & Florida Rail road. By H. Roger Grant...

...José Alvarez Raising Cane in the ’Glades: The Global Sugar Trade and the Transformation of Florida . Gail M. Hollander . © 2010 Agricultural History Society 2010 AgriculturHalistory Spring This work,however,has some flaws.Long blockquotationsare found throughouTt.he authorsfailto...

...Jack E. Davis Tropic of Hopes: California, Florida, and the Selling of American Paradise, 1869–1929 . By Henry Knight . Gainesville : University Press of Florida , 2013 . 272 pp., $74.95 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-8130-4481-1 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2015 2015 2015...

...Charles Closmann Saving Florida: Women's Fight for the Environment in the Twentieth Century . By Leslie Kemp Poole . Gainesville : University Press of Florida , 2015 . 288 pp., $34.95 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-8130-6081-1. © 2016 Agricultural History Society 2016 Agricultural...

...J. L. Anderson The Mosquito Wars: A History of Mosquito Control in Florida . Gordon Patterson . Copyright 2006 Agricultural History Society 2006 Book Reviews / 373 without end." In the dynamic spirit of his age, Emerson remade the circle from an emblem of timeless tradition...

...Gordon E. Harvey A Fierce and Fractious Frontier: The Curious Development of Louisiana’s Florida Parishes, 1699-2000 . Samuel C. Hyde Jr. . Copyright 2006 Agricultural History Society 2006 366 / Agricultural History tory of a school whose curriculum provided far more than...

...Shane Hamilton Book Reviews Liquid Land: A Journey through the Florida Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2003. ISBN 0-8203-2512-0. Everglades. By Ted Levin. 312 pp., $40.00, hardback, The Everglades is a complex and contradictory landscape. A broad expanse of freshwater creeps slowly downhill...

...Evan P. Bennett Florida’s Farmworkers in the Twenty-First Century . Nano Riley and Davida Johns . Copyright 2005 Agricultural History Society 2005 Book Reviews / 103 Florida's Farmworkers in the Twenty-First Century. By Nano Riley and Davida Johns. Gainesville: University Press...

...Shane Hamilton Abstract Frozen concentrated orange juice (FCOJ) was invented in 1945 by government researchers. To Florida orange growers beset by surplus production in some years and hard winter freezes in others, FCOJ was a "miracle" technology. Easily stored and transported, concentrate made...

... the promise of using humble archaeological data to tell engrossing stories about the past. Tiffany Earley-Spadoni University of Central Florida Routes of Compromise: Building Roads and Shaping the Nation in Mexico, 1917 1952. By Michael K. Bess. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2017. 234 pp., $60.00...

... to undergraduates and specialists alike with its brevity and straightforward narrative style. John H. Cable Florida State University From the Grounds Up: Building an Export Economy in Southern Mexico. By Casey Marina Lurtz. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2019. 296 pp., $65.00, hardback, ISBN 978-1-5036-0389-9...

... an excellent contribution to this emerging scholarship, while also restoring the Missouri River to historical memory. Charles Closmann University of North Florida Capitalist Pigs: Pigs, Pork, and Power in America. By J. L. Anderson. Morgantown: West Virginia University Press, 2018. 300 pp., $34.99, paperback...

.... Brownell s book is valuable for studies of peri-urban life in Africa and instructive for the failings of ujamaa. Chau Johnsen Kelly University of North Florida Shaping the African Savannah: From Capitalist Frontier to Arid Eden in Namibia. By Michael Bollig. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. 404...

... and adds little to a secular approach to the study of agricultural history. Todd LeVasseur University of Florida Borlaug: Volume 1, Right off the Farm, 1914 1944. By Noel Vietmeyer. Lorton, Va.: Bracing Books, 2009. 276 pp., $10.00, paperback, ISBN 9780-578-04125-4 Borlaug: Volume 2, Wheat Whisperer, 1944...

... is a welcome contribution to the literatures on twentieth-century rural transformation and Mexican-American labor migration. April Merleaux Florida International University Industrializing the Cornbelt:Agriculture,Technology,and the Environment, 1945 1972. By J. L.Anderson. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University...