...Teresa S. Moyer [email protected] The People of Rose Hill: Black and White Life on a Maryland Plantation . By Lucy Maddox . Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press , 2021 . 224 pp., $54.95 , hardback, ISBN 9781421440965. Copyright © 2023 the Agricultural History Society...

...Zen Ervin Flint Hill Cowboys: Tales of the Tallgrass Prairie . Jim Hoy . Copyright 2008 Agricultural History Society 2008 2008 1948 campaign, according toDean, made building a bipartisan coalition in support of permanent farm policies nearly impossible. The parochial nature...

... ), 18 . Retreating Population to the Hill: Replacement in the Arkansas Ozarks BROOKS BLEVINS Deep inside the Arkansas Ozarks is tucked a little place called Violet Hill, where a person can escape the hustle and bustle of modern urban life, where one can drive down gravel backroads canopied by great...

...Sam Stalcup Historical Agriculture and Soil Erosion in the Upper Mississippi Valley Hill Country . By Stanley W. Trimble . Boca Raton : CRC Press , 2012 . 290 pp., $93.95 , hardback, ISBN 978-146655-574-7 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2015 2015 Book Reviews North...

...Jeannie M. Whayne Hill Folk: A History of Arkansas Ozarkers and Their Image . Brooks Blevins . Copyright 2004 Agricultural History Society 2004 380 / Agricultural History For historians, this book is valuable for its descriptions of daily life and work in the region. In case studies...

...Ricky Floyd Dobbs Harder than Hardscrabble: Oral Recollections of the Farming Life from the Edge of the Texas Hill Country . Thad Sitton . Copyright 2005 Agricultural History Society 2005 494 / Agricultural History "When you arrived, we had the land and you had the Bible. Now you have...

...Barry Whittemore Smokestacks in the Hills: Rural-Industrial Workers in West Virginia . By Lou Martin . Urbana : University of Illinois Press , 2015 . 264 pp., $28.00 , paperback, ISBN 978-0-252-08102-6 . © 2016 Agricultural History Society 2016 Agricultural History Fall...

...Barbara Steinson At Home in the Hoosier Hills: Agriculture, Politics and Religion in Southern Indiana, 1810-1870 . Richard F. Nation . Copyright 2008 Agricultural History Society 2008 2008 BookReviews peculiar and quite intense pressures placed on communities by the isolation...

...Gregory Gordon Black Hills Forestry: A History . By John F. Freeman . Boulder : University Press of Colorado , 2015 . 336 pp., $34.95 , hardback, ISBN 978-1-60732-299-3. © 2016 the Agricultural History Society 2016 Agricultural History Spring mained loyal to the democracy...

...Michael Winslow Leisure, Plantations, and the Making of a New South: The Sporting Plantations of the South Carolina Lowcountry and Red Hills Region, 1900–1940 . Edited by Julia Brock and Daniel Vivian . Lanham : Lexington Books , 2015 . 222 pp., $85.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-7391...

...John Henris Abstract The unique nature of commercial apple culture in the Spearfish Valley of the Black Hills of western South Dakota between 1882 and 1914 adds regional depth to the larger historical narratives of irrigated industrial orchard production in the Intermountain West and Pacific Coast...

...Kevin D. Hill A Hertfordshire Demesne of Westminster Abbey: Profits, Productivity, and Weather . D. V. Stern . Copyright 2002 Agricultural History Society 2002 118/ Agricultural History more democratic or necessarily better China. Yu's authority transformed him into a tyrant who...

...), 33. © Bartholomew Ltd. 1971, reproduced with permission. the Moray Firth and the North Sea, and to the west by Moray, with Aberdeenshire lying to the east. The views from the fields surrounding Upper Knowes stretch out toward the Sutherland Hills, and the area s great natural beauty is defined...

...Kevin D. Hill The English Rural Landscape . Joan Thirsk . Copyright 2001 Agricultural History Society 2001 388 / Agricultural History tion or the Southern Tenant Farmers Union. Most workers did not join unions, and most of those who did failed to strike. If, as President Roosevelt put...

... published by the Scottish History Society (xxxi). This volume also contains the private journal of Captain Sir John Hill who, when administering the government s financial aid, visited the areas worst affected by the famine. Parts Three, Four, and Five of the volume provide a further selection of supporting...

...Kathleen Hilliard Seeds of Empire: Cotton, Slavery, and the Transformation of the Texas Borderlands, 1800–1850 . By Andrew J. Torget . Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press , 2015 . 368 pp., $34.95 , hardback, ISBN 978-1-4696-2424-2 . © 2017 Agricultural History...

...Emily M. Hill Red Revolution, Green Revolution: Scientific Farming in Socialist China . By Sigrid Schmalzer . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 2016 . 320 pp., $45.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-2263-3015-0 . © 2017 Agricultural History Society 2017 Book Reviews 585 India...

...Nathan B. Sanderson Abstract With the opening of the Black Hills to white settlement in the mid-1870s, thousands of fortune-seekers made their way into Dakota Territory. George Edward Lemmon, a man later renowned as one of the world's most accomplished cowboys, was among them. During the 1880s his...

... of burning have felt little need to provide evidence to support their assertions. Critics of tussock burning claimed that it was a catalyst for mass erosion in the hills and mountains of Canterbury. In recent years, scientists have concluded that this was unlikely as much of the erosion predated European...

...James Hill Welborn III Race Horse Men: How Slavery and Freedom Were Made at the Racetrack . By Katherine C. Mooney . Cambridge : Harvard University Press , 2014 . 336 pp., $35.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-674-28142-4 . © 2016 Agricultural History Society 2016 2016 Book Reviews...