...Juri Auderset [email protected] From Old Regime to Industrial State: A History of German Industrialization from the Eighteenth Century to World War I . By Richard H. Tilly and Michael Kopsidis . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 2020 . 312 pp., $75.00 , hardback...

...Mark R. Finlay German Agriculture in Transition: Society, Politics and Environment in a Changing Europe . Geoff A. Wilson and Oliva J. Wilson . Copyright 2002 Agricultural History Society 2002 736 / Agricultural History Historical photographs, tables, and engravings of dredging...

...; Überlegungen zu dem Konzept einer ökologisch orientierten Landwirtschaft in NRW für den Bereich der Landwirtschaftskammer Westfalen-Lippe (Referentenentwurf), ca. May 1984, p. 16, paket 231, collection NW 831, Hauptstaatsarchiv Düsseldorf. 26. For an overview on the postwar transformation of German...

... the German Empire's unification in 1871. By that time, most agronomists contended that the larger threat was the “backward” practice of moor burning itself, which they blamed for the region's environmental devastation and dire poverty. The substitution of German raised bog cultivation, or Hochmoorkultur...

...Philipp N. Lehmann German Colonial Wars and the Context of Military Violence . By Susanne Kuss . Translated by Andrew Smith . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press , 2017 . 400 pp., $45.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-6749-7063-2 . © 2018 Agricultural History Society 2018 446...

...Mark Hersey Alabama in Africa: Booker T. Washington, the German Empire, and the Globalization of the New South . By Andrew Zimmerman . Princeton : Princeton University Press , 2010 . 416 pp., $35.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-691-12362-2 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2011...

...Sean Kelley Nassau Plantation: The Evolution of a Texas German Slave Plantation . By James C. Kearney . Denton : University of North Texas Press , 2010 . 368 pp., $25.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-1-57441-326-7 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2012 2012 Book Reviews North...

...Steve Longenecker The Old German Baptist Brethren: Faith, Farming, and Change in the Virginia Blue Ridge . Charles D. Thompson Jr. . Copyright 2008 Agricultural History Society 2008 Agricultural History Winter merely adding a forty-page introduction does not justify the purchase...

... Wirtschaftsgeschichte, Beiheft 84), (Stuttgart: Franz Steiner, 1987 ), 72 -80 Henning praises the traditional works of German Agrargeschichte Ian Farr , " ’Tradition’ and the Peasantry: On the Modern Historiography of Rural Germany ," in The German Peasantry: Conflict and Community from the Eighteenth...

...Becky L. Snider Building Community, Keeping the Faith: German Catholic Vernacular Architecture in a Rural Minnesota Parish . Fred W. Peterson . Copyright 2000 Agricultural History Society 2000 Book Reviews / 113 Building Community, Keeping the Faith: German Catholic Vernacular...

... . 248 pp., hardback, ISBN 978-3-4122-2228-4 . © 2017 Agricultural History Society 2017 Featured Review German Agricultural History Revisited Frank Uekötter University of Birmingham, UK Grundzüge der Agrargeschichte, Volume 1: Vom Spätmittelalter bis zum Dreißigjährigen Krieg (1350 1650...

...Stephen J. Gross Abstract Scholars have recognized World War I as a time of crisis for German Americans. The government’s campaign against the "hyphen" and for 100 percent Americanism threatened all ethnic Americans but especially those of German descent. This essay examines the wartime events...

... of Hanoverian Germans in Western Missouri . Robert W. Frizzell . ...

...Christine Fojtik Abstract After World War II, Western Allied and German agricultural experts largely agreed both on the desirability of reinvigorated industry and on the changes needed to maximize agricultural output in hungry occupied western Germany. Drawing on the reports and correspondence...

...Robert S. Davis Abstract The story of the creation of Cullman County in the post Civil War South has been the subject of propaganda and myth that has gone far beyond Alabama. German immigrants from Cincinnati, Ohio, founded an agricultural community that traditional accounts credit with bringing...

...Kevin D. Goldberg Abstract “Reaping the Judenfrage ” integrates the vast body of literature on the nineteenth-century “Jewish question” with the long-forgotten “artificial wine question” of the same period. German and Austrian Jews played pivotal roles in the wine trade, often as merchants...

.... Sharpless and Jones examine new content gained through interviews with German Americans and plantation managers, who have been excluded from most studies. Through their personal experiences, Petty and Schultz consider the ways in which relationships between interviewer and interviewee shape the narrative...

...Simon M. Evans Abstract The Hutterites are a German speaking religious sect. They live communally, holding “all things common.” This characteristic separates them from the Mennonites and the Amish, with whom they share a common Anabaptist tradition. The Hutterites have resisted assimilation...

... way not only to produce pork, but also grease, a garbage by-product sold to soap makers. The growth of Secaucus’ swine farms began after nuisance trades like piggeries and bone-boiling plants were exiled from Manhattan in the mid-nineteenth century. By the 1890s a German-dominated swill trade...

...Lyvia Diser Abstract During the 1870s Belgium followed the path of other European countries and created its first public agricultural laboratories under the direction of Arthur Petermann, a young German agricultural scientist. Petermann had been trained in the well-established European stations...