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...Shane Hamilton Liquid Land: A Journey through the Florida Everglades . Ted Levin . Copyright 2004 Agricultural History Society 2004 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...

...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...

...Mark V. Wetherington Agricultural History Fall Rails through theWiregrass: A History of theGeorgia & Florida Rail road. By H. Roger Grant. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2006. 239 pp., $36.00,paperback, ISBN 0-87580-365-2. As H. Roger Grant writes, twentieth-century southern railroads...

...Jim Norris Agricultural History Fall Despite its flaws, there ismuch in this objective, well-written, and care fully researched monograph to merit the attention of students of the Confederacy and the slave South. William K. Scarborough University of Southern Mississippi Florida's Working-Class...

...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...

... had on Northern, Southern, and Western farming communities. Steven B. Davis University of Kansas 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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...Paul M. Pressly Zephaniah Kingsley Jr. and the Atlantic World: Slave Trader, Plantation Owner, Emancipator . By Daniel L. Schafer . Gainesville : University Press of Florida , 2013 . 352 pp., $29.95 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-8130-4462-0 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2015...

.... 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, hardback, ISBN 978-0-8032-9934-4. Michael K. Bess analyzes nation building in Mexico...

... 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...

... that, The Multifarious Mr. Banks is a nuanced and refreshingly modern interpretation of Banks s life and accomplishments that coincides with the bicentennial anniversary of his death. Maureen S. Thompson Florida International University A New Plantation World: Sporting Estates in the South Carolina Lowcountry, 1900 1940...

... 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...

... of archival materials, which will surely inspire scholars to dig more deeply. April Merleaux Florida International University 627 ...

... addition to the literature that connects agricultural, social, and environmental history. No one studying southern agriculture should miss it. Evan P. Bennett Florida Atlantic University Sod Busting: How Families Made Farms on the Nineteenth-Century Plains. By David B. Danbom. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins...

... work and a great contribution to Roman and wider agrarian history as well. Michael J. Decker University of South Florida North America Burley: Kentucky Tobacco in a New Century. By Ann K. Ferrell. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2013. 328 pp., $50.00, hardback, ISBN 978-08131-4233-3. Folklore...