...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...

...Scott Moore Eating Nature in Modern Germany: Food, Agriculture, and Environment, c. 1870 to 2000 . By Corinna Treitel . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2017 . 402 pp., $120.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-1-2091-8802-0 . © 2018 Agricultural History Society 2018 448...

...Suman Seth Technology’s Dilemma: Agricultural Colleges between Science and Practice in Germany, 1860-1934 . Jonathan Harwood . Copyright 2008 Agricultural History Society 2008 2008 Book Reviews ture,one that scholars would be well advised to read in tandem with Trevor Burnard's...

... 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...

...Christine Fojtik [email protected] Local Lives, Parallel Histories: Villagers and Everyday Life in Divided Germany . By Marcel Thomas . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2020 . 320 pp., $93.00 , hardback, ISBN 9780198856146. Copyright © 2023 the Agricultural History Society...

...Thomas Fleischman [email protected] Saving Nature under Socialism: Transnational Environmentalism in East Germany, 1968–1990 . By Julia E. Ault . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2021 . 300 pp., $99.99, hardcover, ISBN 9781316519141 . Copyright ©...

...Samuel J. Klee Abstract The Hellwig Brothers’ Farm in Chesterfield, Missouri, became a carceral space during World War II. The Hellwigs contracted Mexican and Mexican American farmworkers, incarcerated Japanese Americans, and prisoners of war from Italy and Germany through the War Food...

...Robert Mark Spaulding Abstract This paper examines how the rise and fall of Polish agriculture affected the larger political and economic relationships among Poland and three key members of the western alliance--the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Federal Republic of Germany...

...Frank Uekötter Abstract This article discusses the role of panaceas as functional equivalents to scientific expertise. Using the example of plant nutrition in Germany, it shows how increasing fertilizer use ran against the best scientific advice in significant ways. Ultimately, the lack...

...Elizabeth B. Jones Abstract This article traces the mounting worries about peat (moor) smoke in northwest Germany and how they fueled a state-led effort to find a reliable alternative to moor burning. Public complaints about moor smoke's threats began in the eighteenth century and peaked after...

.... 4 , 1880 ): 1 – 3 . The German Second Reich, or Imperial Germany, was founded as a constitutional monarchy in 1871. The Reich dissolved in 1918. Austria-Hungary was founded in 1867. Far more ethnically and culturally diverse than Germany, it was weakened by nationalist and regional tensions...

... of California, Riverside Eating Nature in Modern Germany: Food, Agriculture, and Environment, c. 1870 to 2000. By Corinna Treitel. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. 402 pp., $120.00, hardback, ISBN 978-1-2091-8802-0. Eating Nature in Modern Germany begins with a question: why was Hitler a vegetarian...

... of German agricultural history for at least a generation. Friedrich-Wilhelm Henning and Walter Achilles produced syntheses more recently, and a four-volume project on Rural Economy and Society in North-Western Europe, 500 2000 looked at Northwest Germany along with Britain, Northern France, the Low...

... a self-sufficient, enduring empire is a welcome addition to the historical literature. of particular importance is the book s use of food as a lens to examine well-known aspects of nazi germany, including the regime s ideology and its preparations for a genocidal war for Lebensraum (living space). gesine...

... of the crop, and the historical development and characteristics of some rapeseed varieties. The information is useful for understanding the main part of this monograph, in which Waltenberger analyzes the causes of increasing rapeseed production in Germany. Here she works with mainly governmental sources...

.... With this goal in mind, natural diet reformers argued that their theories would allow Germany to achieve a secure food supply and a healthier population. They found enthusiastic supporters in the Nazi regime, and the desire to achieve a natural food supply was integral to Nazi war planning. As food scarcity...

...Fredrik Eriksson Bauerngesellschaften auf dem Weg in die Moderne: Agrarismus in Ostmitteleuropa 1880 bis 1960 . Edited by Helga Schultz and Angela Harre . Wiesbaden, Germany : Harrassowitz , 2010 . 296 pp., €46.00 , ISBN 978-3-447-06272-5 . © the Agricultural History Society...

... that practitioners continued to rely on tacit knowledge and direct experience of the truth in the field (89). Indeed, as Ueko¨ tter shows in the case of farm mechanization, which arrived in Germany in full force in the 1920s, farmers developed expertise concerning the operation, maintenance, and repair...

.... New York: Palgrave, 2001. 336 pp., $75.00, hardback, ISBN 0-333-71795-3. The tumultuous developments of Germany's recent history have had concomitant effects upon German agriculture. In German Agriculture in Transition, Geoff A. Wilson and Oliva J. Wilson, both geographers at British universities...

... Agriculture in Transition: Society, Politics and Environment in a Changing Europe. By Geoff A. Wilson and Oliva J. Wilson. New York: Palgrave, 2001. 336 pp., $75.00, hardback, ISBN 0-333-71795-3. The tumultuous developments of Germany's recent history have had concomitant effects upon German agriculture...