...Royden Loewen Abstract This article suggests that the idea of "modernization," the uni-linear transition from peasantry to commercial agriculture, has shaped much of the writing of rural immigrant communities during the twentieth century. It also suggests that the history of immigrant and ethnic...

...Donald B. Oster Lives and Letters of an Immigrant Family: The Van Dreveldts’ Experiences along the Missouri, 1844-1866 . Kenneth Kronenberg . Copyright 2000 Agricultural History Society 2000 108 / Agricultural History legal context and practices. This is important because Kantor...

... Administration, College Park, MD. 2. Higa, “Investigation of the Okinawan Colonies.” 3. Leo Spitzer, Hotel Bolivia: The Culture of Memory in a Refuge from Nazism (New York: Hill and Wang, 1998). 4. Other nations, from Canada to Argentina, had reserved nationality-based immigration quotas...

...Vincenza Scarpaci Creole Italian: Sicilian Immigrants and the Shaping of New Orleans Food Culture . By Justin Nystrom . Athens : University of Georgia Press , 2018, 224 pp., $26.95 , paperback, IBSN 978-0-82035-3555-5. © 2020 Agricultural History Society 2020 294 Agricultural...

... of how the trials and tribulations of a specific community of immigrants in Nevada can help us better understand the ways that monumental shifts—the development of an agricultural industry in the West, anti-immigration trends in the 1920s and 1930s, and the rise of production demands during World War II...

...,NorrisHundley'sWaterandtheWestT: heColoradoRiverand thePoliticsofWaterintheAmericanWesthas reignedas the classichistoryoftheColoradoRiverCompactand thelitigationand other disputesoveritsproperinterpretatioannd implementationA. lynchpinof 555 © 2009 Agricultural History Society 2009 Independent Immigrants: A Settlement...

...Jim Norris Florida’s Working-Class Past: Current Perspectives on Labor, Race, and Gender from Spanish Florida to the New Immigration . Robert Cassanello and Melanie Shell-Weiss . © 2010 Agricultural History Society 2010 Agricultural History Fall Despite its flaws, there ismuch...

...Lily Anne Yumi Welty Tamai Nikkei in the Interior West: Japanese Immigration and Community Building, 1882–1945 . By Eric Walz . Tucson : Arizona University Press , 2012 . 264 pp., $50.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-8165-2947-6 . © the Agricultural History society, 2014 2014 2014...

...Christopher W. Shaw Abstract In 1908 President Theodore Roosevelt formed the Country Life Commission to address contemporary concerns over the state of rural America. One of the issues that commissioners planned to address provoked an internal impasse: the relationship of immigration to agriculture...

... , The Issei: The World of First Generation Japanese Immigrants, 1885–1924 (New York: The Free Press, 1988 ), 59 Russell Endo , "Japanese of Colorado: A Sociohistorical Portrait," Journal of Social and Behavioral Sciences31 (Fall1985): 101 Suga Yano, interview by Paul Kato, 3 January 1976...

...Connie Y. Chiang Garden of the World: Asian Immigrants and the Making of Agriculture in California's Santa Clara Valley . By Cecilia M. Tsu . New York : Oxford University Press , 2013 . 304 pp., $29.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-0-973478-8. . © the Agricultural History Society, 2015...

...Linda Heidenreich Grounds for Dreaming: Mexican Americans, Mexican Immigrants, and the California Farmworker Movement . By Lori A. Flores . New Haven : Yale University Press , 2015 . 304 pp., $45.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-300-19696-2 . © 2016 Agricultural History Society 2016...

...Joe Regan Abstract This article explores the lower Mississippi valley's antebellum history to uncover the role of Irish immigrant laborers in the riverine economy of the Cotton Kingdom. In particular, this article examines the experience of Irish laborers as canallers and ditchers on plantations...

...Matthew C. Godfrey Abstract In 1918 and 1919, the Utah-Idaho Sugar Company was investigated by the US Bureau of Immigration, the US Department of Labor, and Idaho’s Labor Commission for the living conditions of Mexican laborers under its employ. Ultimately, the sugar corporation was exonerated...

..." that included a non-white laboring class. Records show that AES personnel contributed by helping to separate Native Americans from their land and water resources, prevent competition from immigrants from Asia, and Americanize non-whites. © 2010 Agricultural History Society 2010 Notes 1 "Seth Low...

... and crime to pen pigs and dispossess poor immigrant “swill women” of a means of reproduction. In the early twentieth century, officials championed pigs as living machines that turned garbage into pork, as long as they were spatially separated from the city and managed by professionalized men. Following pigs...

...Robert S. Davis Abstract The story of the creation of Cullman County in the post Civil War South has been the subject of propaganda and myth that has gone far beyond Alabama. German immigrants from Cincinnati, Ohio, founded an agricultural community that traditional accounts credit with bringing...

... revitalization that lay in new connections between the countryside and the city. In the early twentieth century, as long-settled families departed for urban employment, European immigrant families escaping the mines and mills bought abandoned farms. Motorized transport enabled farming families to send household...

... areas and thus maintain its productivity. With virgin land available and statesubsidized European immigration providing labor, it was inevitable that coffee production expanded. This occurred despite the relatively unsophisticated nature of the farming technology employed. Few farmers, even in the most...

... of marsh hay, pre-existent human alterations to the landscape, and forest grazing, with the Newfoundland fishery providing the main market. After the end of the Napoleonic Wars, as the island attracted more immigrants, the cattle industry declined in relative importance, and potato and grain production...