...Nicholas E. Williams [email protected] Indigenous Food Sovereignty in the United States: Restoring Cultural Knowledge, Protecting Environments, and Regaining Health . Edited by Devon A. Mihesuah and Elizabeth Hoover . Norman : University of Oklahoma Press , 2019 . 390...

...Zhihui Zou [email protected] The Devil's Fruit: Farmworkers, Health, and Environmental Justice . By Dvera I. Saxton . New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press , 2021 . 252 pp., $38.95 , paperback, ISBN 9780813598611 . Copyright © 2024 the Agricultural History...

... of the Raj: Livelihoods, Livestock and Veterinary Health in North India, 1790 1920. by Saurabh mishra. manchester: manchester university Press, 2015. 208 pp., £70.00, hardback, iSbn 978-0-7190-8972-5. Quite often studies of plant and animal worlds can become mired in examining organizational...

...David K. Hecht Chemical Lands: Pesticides, Aerial Spraying, and Health in North America’s Grasslands since 1945 . By David D. Vail . Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press , 2018 . 168 pp., $39.95 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-8173-1973-1 . © 2018 Agricultural History Society 2018...

...Gordon M. Patterson Toxic Drift: Pesticides and Health in the Post World War II South . Pete Daniel . Copyright 2007 Agricultural History Society 2007 2007 BookReviews ToxicDrift:PesticidesandHealth in thePostWorldWar II South.By Pete Daniel. Baton Rouge: Louisiana...

...Diana L. Ahmad The Health of the Country: How American Settlers Understood Themselves and Their Land . Conevery Bolton Valenčius . Copyright 2004 Agricultural History Society 2004 Book Reviews The Health of the Country: How American selves and Their Land. By Conevery Bolton Books...

... another book. In the meantime, Every Nation Has Its Dish is a fine place to start. Leni Sorensen Independent Scholar To Raise Up the Man Farthest Down: Tuskegee University s Advancements in Human Health, 1881 1987. By Dana Chandler and Edith Powell. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2018. 216 pp...

...Philip L. Frana Goldberger’s War: The Life and Work of a Public Health Crusader . Alan M. Kraut . Copyright 2005 Agricultural History Society 2005 228 / Agricultural History Furthermore, one can certainly query whether all the images Garfinkel claims are dancers really are dancers. He...

...Roger Horowitz The Sausage Rebellion: Public Health, Private Enterprise, and Meat in Mexico City, 1890-1917 . Jeffrey M. Pilcher . Copyright 2008 Agricultural History Society 2008 2008 BookReviews munity nature of migrant farm labor. During four growing seasons begin ning in 2001...

...Calestous Juma The Birth of Development: How the World Bank, Food and Agriculture Organization, and World Health Organization Changed the World, 1945-1965 . Amy L. S. Staples . Copyright 2008 Agricultural History Society 2008 2008 BookReviews land conversion. There are multiple policy...

... and Wang, 2002) Conevery Bolton Valencius, The Health of the Country: How American Settlers Understood Themselves and Their Land (New York: Basic Books, 2002). Richard White, "Are You an Environmentalist or Do You Work for a Living?" in Uncommon Ground: Rethinking the Human Place in Nature, ed. William...

...Mark Coyne The Soil and Health: A Study of Organic Agriculture . Albert Howard . Copyright 2008 Agricultural History Society 2008 2008 BookReviews ate seminars covering a host of topics from cultural interaction to transmis sions of technology in the early modern era. Robinson...

...Claire Hooker The Bovine Scourge: Meat, Tuberculosis, and Public Health, 1850-1914 . Kier Waddington . Copyright 2008 Agricultural History Society 2008 Agricultural History Fall manifold pathways followed by the different farming and industrial revolu tions are also considered...

...-twentieth century was a watershed event for many Mayan farmers in Guatemala. While some Maya hailed synthetic fertilizers’ immediate effectiveness as a relief from famines and migrant labor, others lamented the long-term deterioration of their public health, soil quality, and economic autonomy. Since...

... in milk. Although consumers’ concerns about food purity became critical in the postwar era, only in the late 1950s and early 1960s did public health officials and consumers take interest in the potential human health effects of antibiotic residues. Veterinarians and milk processors, not consumers, led...

...Thomas Roberston DDT and the American Century: Global Health, Environmental Politics, and the Pesticide that Changed the World . By David Kinkela . Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press , 2011 . 272 pp., $39.95 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-8078-3509-8 . © the Agricultural...

...Yulonda Eadie Sano Abstract This article explores the relationship between African American lay midwives and the Mississippi State Board of Health. Seen as responsible for high rates of infant and maternal mortality, the midwives were targeted for elimination in the 1920s. However, the shortage...

... " Committee, 14 April1909 Kansas City Commercial Club Minutes, v. 24, 69 4 A. Theodore Brown and Lyle W. Dorsett, K.C.: A History of Kansas City, Missouri (Boulder, Colo.: Pruett, 1978 ) 5 Kansas State Board of Health , First Biennial Report, 1901–1902 (Topeka: State...

... of the organic movement, including: soil erosion, soil fertility, nutrition, and health. Crucially, it also reveals some of its more everyday preoccupations with culinary skills and recipe books. Finally, it illustrates that a detailed examination of the journal reveals some of the forgotten figures...

... a particular set of agricultural and economic concerns in the shadow of World War II, as the United States sought to shore up its relationship with Mexico. These contemporaneous interventions ultimately targeted the same rural populations and acted in tandem to disrupt the lives, health, and subsistence...