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... opportunities were limited, many turned to raising foxes. The fox is typically a wild animal and cares for itself when left in its natural habitat. In captivity, however, it required more attention. Farmers treated a wild animal like livestock and faced a range of challenges they needed to overcome if profiting...

...William D. Rowley Silver Fox of the Rockies: Delphus E. Carpenter and Western Water Compacts . Daniel Tyler . Copyright 2004 Agricultural History Society 2004 Book Reviews / 385 Young scholars will find Labor's Promised Land a very useful overview of the BTW, STFU, and the conditions...

...Jonathan Kissock Life in Medieval Landscapes: People and Places in the Middle Ages: Papers in Memory of H. S. A. Fox . Edited by Sam Turner and Bob Silvester . Oxford : Windgather Press , 2012 . 303 pp., $60.00 , paperback, ISBN 978-1-905119-40-0 . © the Agricultural History...

... Management in the Middle Ages. By Harold Fox. Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 2012. 291 pp., $55.00, paperback, ISBN 978-0-85989-865-2. Twice a year during the Middle Ages a red tide washed over southwestern England as red Devon cattle were driven to and from summer pasturelands in the Dartmoor highlands...

.... Karen-Beth G. Scholthof Texas A&M University Dartmoor s Alluring Uplands: Transhumance and Pastoral Management in the Middle Ages. By Harold Fox. Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 2012. 291 pp., $55.00, paperback, ISBN 978-0-85989-865-2. Twice a year during the Middle Ages a red tide washed over...

... essays focuses on another of Fox s interests: the social structures of peasant society and its association with landholding patterns and the role of lordship in tenurial systems. Five of these studies comprise a detailed analysis of a small community usually a manor or village. The sixth is a study...

... account that will successfully assist in debunking the myths and perceptions that dominate our understanding of the role and age of trees in the landscape. John Martin De Montfort University Life in Medieval Landscapes: People and Places in the Middle Ages: Papers in Memory of H. S. A. Fox. Edited by Sam...

... limitation of the book is that it deals almost exclusively with cattle. Although horses and sheep were also pastured on Dartmoor, Fox found almost no written records of them in the medieval period. Fox mentions that in the eighteenth century nearly one hundred thousand sheep were seasonally grazed...

... the border.) 23 Species like silver fox, mink, and muskrat drew a good deal of interest, at first from private midwestern fur farmers like A. R. Harding and Hermon Laymon, who published fur farming guides. 24 Again, USDA interest followed almost immediately. Lantz, for example, published bulletins...

... (Table 7.5), 180 45 Kitsikopoulos, "The Cost of Enclosure." H. S. A. Fox , " Some Ecological Dimensions of Medieval Field Systems ," in Archaeological Approaches to Medieval Europe , ed. Kathleen Biddick (Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications, Western Michigan Univer¬ sity, 1984...

...Frank Giannangelo; Vicky Giannangelo © 2009 Agricultural History Society 2009 Artisan Farming: Lessons, Lore, and Recipes . Richard Harris , Lisa Fox and Trent Edwards . 2009 BookReviews ArtisanFarming:Lessons, Lore, and Recipes. By Richard Harris with Lisa Fox...

...-Impact Educational Practices , 24 . 7. Pike, Kuh, and McCormick, “Investigation of the Contingent Relationships” ; Zhao and Kuh, “Adding Value.” 8. Brownell and Swaner, “High-Impact Practices,” 29 ; Enberg and Fox, “Exploring the Relationship,” 86 ; Simons and Cleary, “Influence...

... in America (New York: Basic Books, 1994 ); T. J. Jackson Lears and Richard Wightman Fox, The Culture of Consumption: Critical Essays in American History, 1880-1980 (New York: Pantheon Books, 1983 ); T. J. Jackson Lears and Richard Wightman Fox, The Power of Culture: Critical...

...,” Sallisaw Democrat-American . Nov. 8 , 1929 , 1 ; W. W. Hastings to N. E. Winters, Aug. 5, 1935, folder 18, box 2, Elmer Thomas Collection, Carl Albert Center, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Okla. (hereafter CAC). 16. “Al Smith, Fox Hound, Catch Elusive Fox in 6-Hour Chase on Miller Ridge...

.... It was most popular in Norfolk, Suffolk, Hampshire, Hertfordshire, Surrey, Sussex, Berkshire, Dorset, Kent, Shropshire, Flintshire, Anglesey, and Denbighshire. In contrast there were fewer gamekeepers in the midland counties of Northamptonshire, Leicestershire, and Nottinghamshire, where fox hunting took...

..., and speculators. Moreover, they often negotiated with Native Americans on exploiting natural resources (chiefly, fur) through bartering. The most successful fur traders made it a point to understand the various tribes (such as the Otoe and Omaha nations along with the Ioway, Sac, and Fox) on their own terms...

... range for cattle and hogs so as not to endanger urban motorists and then to fox hunters who flagrantly pursued their prey across private property lines. In Loudoun County, rising land prices linked to the construction of Dulles Airport drove commercial dairy farmers from the land. Yet ironically...

..., published in 1892. Volume four includes some ofArthur Wilson Fox's im portant surveys presented to the 1890s Royal Commission on theAgricul tural Laborer, although the print size as a result of the reduction of the original pages suggests readers will need to approach thiswith a magnifying glass. 247...

... the societies on the land and the features of the land itself. For example, Harold Fox and Bernard Jennings treat the wolds, Christopher Dyer discusses "Woodlands and Wood Pasture in West? em England," and Brian Short writes on "Forests and Forest Pasture in Lowland England." Other chapters cover downlands...

... for goods and food. As more French soldiers, farmers, and traders came to the region, a new mixed-ancestry community also developed. Violence accelerated when the French fought such nations as the Fox, whose raids in turn devastated the Mechigamea. The entrance of British soldiers and traders further...