...Betsy Mendelsohn The Great Gypsy Moth War: A History of the First Campaign in Massachusetts to Eradicate the Gypsy Moth, 1890–1901 . Robert J. Spear . Copyright 2007 Agricultural History Society 2007 Agricultural History Spring the most important ways that indigenous people crafted...

...Julie Courtwright Abstract Rainmaking flourished on the Great Plains during the 1890s drought. A complicated hybrid of sincere belief in science and confidence games, Plains peoples' willingness to place tentative faith in the practice reflected larger insecurities about the advisability...

...Deborah Stiles A Great Rural Sisterhood: Madge Robertson Watt & the ACWW . By Linda M. Ambrose . Toronto : University of Toronto Press , 2015 . 360 pp., $32.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-1-4426-1579-3. © 2016 the Agricultural History Society 2016 2016 Book Reviews focus would...

...Pamela Riney-Kehrberg Days on the Family Farm: From the Golden Age Through the Great Depression . Carrie A. Meyer . © 2009 Agricultural History Society 2009 AgriculturHalistory Spring as machinesandas livingorganismTs.hisoftenresultedinmisuseanddownrightcrueltyb,uttherewerealso...

...Alon Tal Arab/American: Landscape, Culture, and Cuisine in Two Great Deserts . Gary Paul Nabhan . © 2009 Agricultural History Society 2009 2009 BookReviews The "Animal"seriesthatthisdelightfuvlolumebelongsto has thusfar beendevotedtowildspeciesp, lusdogsanda prospectivbeookoncatsT...

...JOSHUA D. MACFADYEN Abstract A new thirst for paint and color in cities made extensive flax production profitable in the northern Great Plains and Prairies and contributed to the cultivation of the most fragile grassland ecosystems. The production of flax seed for linseed oil became an early spin...

...Luis H. Moreno They Should Stay There: The Story of Mexican Migration and Repatriation during the Great Depression . By Fernando Saúl Alanís Enciso . Translated by Russ Davidson. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press , 2017 . 272 pp., $29.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-1-4696...

...Nan Elizabeth Woodruff A Nation under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration . Steven Hahn . Copyright 2005 Agricultural History Society 2005 Book Reviews / 249 Jackson Hole airport. Her discussions of these topics are incisive...

...J. L. Anderson A Good Day’s Work: An Iowa Farm in the Great Depression . Dwight W. Hoover . © 2009 Agricultural History Society 2009 Book Reviews NorthAmerica A Good Day's WorkA: n Iowa Farmin theGreatDepression.By Dwight W.Hoover. Chicago:Ivan R. Dee, 2007.240 pp26.00,hardback,ISBN...

...Arthur Remillard No Depression in Heaven: The Great Depression, The New Deal, and The Transformation of Religion in the Delta . By Alison Collis Greene . London : Oxford University Press , 2016 . 336 pp., $34.95 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-19-937187-7 . © 2017 Agricultural History...

...Kent Blaser On the Great Plains: Agriculture and Environment . Geoff Cunfer . Copyright 2007 Agricultural History Society 2007 2007 Book Reviews American agriculture to share center stage with conventional agriculture. Nevertheless, the grist for such an explanatory framework can...

... of Illinois Press, 1993 ) Hal S. Barron , Mixed Harvest: The Great Transformation in the Rural North, 1870–1930 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997 ) Mary Neth , Preserving the Family Farm: Women, Community, and the Foundations of Agribusiness in the Midwest, 1900...

...Elna C. Green Remembering the Great Depression in the Rural South . Kenneth J. Bindas . © 2009 Agricultural History Society 2009 2009 Book Reviews believed,wouldproducehigheryieldsin agriculturea,nd thereforhe igher toarx"epsu,wrhifiicehdc"ovuarldieptaiyesfoforctrhoepis...

... is the memoir of Mildred Armstrong Kalish, Little Heathens: Hard Times and High Spirits on an Iowa Farm during the Great Depression . This is a charming and highly readable primary source that has been popular with my students since I started teaching the class. It is appealing to those who are not history...

...Diana L. Ahmad The Size of the Risk: Histories of Multiple Use in the Great Basin . By Leisl Carr Childers . Norman : University of Oklahoma Press , 2015 . 320 pp., $34.95 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-8061-4927-1 . © 2017 Agricultural History Society 2017 Agricultural History...

... and on the Great Plains. Successful apple growing in this relatively small, ecologically and economically distinct region faced many geo-specific obstacles. Although the Black Hills provided shelter from winter winds, moderated temperatures, and provided enough water—at least compared to the surrounding northern...

...Karen-Beth G. Scholthof Atlas of the Great Irish Famine . Edited by John Crowley, William J. Smyth, and Mike Murphy . New York : New York University Press , 2012 . 728 pp., $75.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-8147-7148-8 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2015 2015 Book Reviews...

...June Hopkins Great Depression: People and Perspectives . Hamilton Cravens . © 2010 Agricultural History Society 2010 Agricultural History Fall In thisclearly written and superbly illustrated book, Robert Sauder exam ineswhat happened when theDawes Act intertwinedwith thework...

...Carl H. Moneyhon Too Great a Burden to Bear: The Struggle and Failure of the Freedmen’s Bureau in Texas . By Christopher B. Bean . New York : Fordham University Press , 2016 . 320 pp., $40.00 , paperback, ISBN 978-0-8232-7176-4 . © 2017 Agricultural History Society 2017 Book...

...Joseph Cullon The Great Meadow: Farmers and the Land in Colonial Concord . Brian Donahue . Copyright 2007 Agricultural History Society 2007 2007 BookReviews The Great Meadow: Farmersand the Land in Colonial Concord. By Brian Donahue. New Haven: Yale UniversityPress, 2004. 344 pp...