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...Clifton Crais Highland Sanctuary: Environmental History in Tanzania’s Usambara Mountains . Christopher A. Conte . Copyright 2006 Agricultural History Society 2006 BookReviews / 495 Highland Sanctuary:EnvironmentalHistoryin Tanzania'sUsambaraMountains.Christopher A. Conte. Athens: Ohio...

...Michelle Wibbelsman 2008 Book Reviews LatinAmerica and theCaribbean RememberingtheHacienda: Religion,Authoritya,nd Social Change in Highland Ecuador. By Barry J.Lyons. Austin: Universityof Texas Press,2006. 368 pp., $24.95,paperback, ISBN 978-0-292-71439-7. Anthropologist Barry Lyons draws...

... Highland DAVID CAREY JR. DespiteextensivlieteraturbeothsupportinagndcritiquintgheGreenRevolutions,urprisinglliyttlaettentiohnasbeenpaidtosynthetfiecrtilizerhse'alth and environmenteaflfectosr indigenoufsarmersp'erspectiveTsh. eintroductionofagrochemicailnsthemid-twenticeetnhturwyasa watersheedvent...

...Chad Raymond Book Reviews Asia Farming with Fire and Water: The Human Ecology of a Composite Swid dening Community inVietnam's Northern Highland. By Tran Duc Vien, A.Terry Rambo, and Nguyen Thanh Lam. Kyoto: Kyoto University Press, 2009.456 pp., $89.95, hardback, ISBN 978-1-920901-29-5. Farming...

...Peter Hillis The Highland Destitution of 1837: Government Aid and Public Subscription . Edited by John MacAskill . New York : Boydell & Brewer , 2013 . 313 pp., $70.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-9062245-37-8 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2015 2015 Agricultural History...

...John MacAskill Landscapes of Protest in the Scottish Highlands after 1914: The Later Highland Wars . By Iain J. M. Robertson . Burlington : Ashgate Publishing , 2013 . 266 pp., $114.95 , hardback, ISBN 978-1-4724-1137-2 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2015 2015 Book...

...Peter Hoehnle Weavers of the Southern Highlands . Philis Alvic . Copyright 2004 Agricultural History Society 2004 366 / Agricultural History For those who might consider the book for classroom use, however, some weaknesses mar its practical value. The collection lacks a clear...

...Marc Becker Abstract Conflicts on the Zumbahua hacienda in the highlands of the South American country of Ecuador in the 1930s and 1940s present insights into the nature of rural social relations. Both wealthy landholders and Indigenous agricultural workers experimented with discursive elements...

... of and experimentation with hybrid wheat seeds in the Ethiopian highlands. The article shows the key role played by Italian agronomists and plant breeders in the framing and implementation of wheat autarky in the Fascist empire. Contrary to the historical emphasis of Fascist propaganda on the technological and human...

... the Scottish Highlands—in the Western District of Victoria, it demonstrates how family networks assisted in the accumulation and consolidation of large pastoral properties and enterprises and thus aided the agricultural entrepreneurialism of migrants who saw greater commercial opportunities throughout...

... America Before the Shining Path: Politics in Rural Ayacucho, 1895 1980. By Jaymie Patricia Heilman. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2010. 272 pp., $60.00, hardback, ISBN 978-0-8047-7094-1. During the 1980s a Maoist guerilla group, Sendero Luminoso (Shining Path), ravaged much of highland Peru...

... of Scotland ( Edinburgh : Birlinn , 1997 ), 6 – 44 ; Isabel Frances Grant , Highland Folk Ways ( London : Routledge and Kegan Paul , 1961 ), 65 – 78 ; John MacDonald to Nelly MacDonald, Apr. 10, 1803, MacDonald Papers, Acc. 2664/22, PARO. 12. MacDonald to MacDonald, Apr. 10, 1803, MacDonald...

..., Hollow Folk, 15-16, 177, 186 Julia Davis , The Shenandoah (New York: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc, 1945 ), 319 3 Edwin E. White , Highland Heritage: The Southern Mountains and the Nation (New York: Friendship Press, 1937 ), 30 . 4 Robert and Helen Lynd’s Middletown...

..., USDA Weavers ofthe Southern Highlands. By Philis Alvic. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2003.233 pp, $35.00, hardback, ISBN 0-8131-2258-9. Philis Alvic has written an engaging account of the weavers of the Southern highlands of Kentucky, Georgia, the Carolinas, and other states in Weavers of ...

... 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...

... highland protest. There is much food for thought in this book, and so it is a pity that far too many typographical errors (both in the text and in the footnotes) have been allowed to slip through, even to the extent of the repetition of large parts of a page of typescript (although not, intriguingly...

... sowing doubt and discord also had evidence that disproved their own convictions. A 1973 US Agency for International Development study concluded that Guatemalan highland peasants’ techniques and knowledge contributed to yields that were twenty times those produced on large-scale enterprises in the United...

... the activities of SINAMOS's offices in three regions: Piura on the North Coast, Cuzco in the Highlands, and the coastal department of Tacna on the border with Chile. This book is a remarkable study of the most controversial aspect of this dictatorship's rule, the Sistema Nacional de Movilización Social...

... of repeated enclosures that have pushed a highland people to migrate ever further into this lowland frontier and examines the contemporary pressures that threaten to dispossess the Q eqchi yet again. 560 2013 Book Reviews Grandia emphasizes two aspects of enclosure: dispossession and privatization. Colonial...

... your recent jaunt into the wilds off the state high way. In fact, many Ozark places are like Violet Hill, and thousands of Americans, Ozarkers, and non- Ozarkers alike, know about them. Someone let the eat out of the bag about this mid-American highland region long ago. Even such an out-of-the-way...