...Belle Cheves A History of Slavery and Emancipation in Iran, 1800–1929 . By Behnaz A. Mirzai . Austin : University of Texas Press , 2017 . 344 pp., $34.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-1-4773-1186-8 . © 2018 Agricultural History Society 2018 Book Reviews 637 and vice versa: the growth...

..., Chinese environmental history, and diplomatic history. Zach Smith University of Central Arkansas A History of Slavery and Emancipation in Iran, 1800 1929. By Behnaz A. Mirzai. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2017. 344 pp., $34.95, paperback, ISBN 978-1-4773-1186-8. Behnaz Mirzai surveys the history...

... of the popular symbols used by humans over thousands of years and over large geographical areas. The data Garfinkel investigates for this publication come from the geo? graphical areas of the Levant, Mesopotamia, Iran, western Pakistan, Anatolia, the Balkans, Greece, the Danube basin of southeastern Europe...

.... The book is focused on remote regions of Asia. For example, the first several chapters deal largely with the development of the opium economy in China, the Golden Crescent (Afghanistan, Iran, Pakistan), and the Golden Triangle (Burma, Laos, Thailand). But while Asia figures prominently, Chouvy also...

... and over large geographical areas. The data Garfinkel investigates for this publication come from the geo? graphical areas of the Levant, Mesopotamia, Iran, western Pakistan, Anatolia, the Balkans, Greece, the Danube basin of southeastern Europe, and Egypt. He has amassed nearly four hundred depictions...

..., the changing economies and geographies of the illicit opium trade, and the failure of modern eradication efforts. The book is focused on remote regions of Asia. For example, the first several chapters deal largely with the development of the opium economy in China, the Golden Crescent (Afghanistan, Iran...

... endnotes, and a detailed bibliography of archival material. Throughout her chapters, the author uses visual aids (photographs and maps) to complement her analysis. Mirzai s contribution is useful not only for historians of Iran and the Middle East, but also historians of slavery more broadly as she shows...

...-speakincoglleaguesitisdifficutlotshareour researcht,olookoutward. In 2006RWSAconferencoerganizerisnvitedscholarsfromCanada, Nigeriat,heNetherlandPsa,kistanI,ndia,Iran,Turkeya,ndZimbabweto joinus.Organizertshenarrangedto havethepapersofthosewhowere notabletosurmountthosewallsreadso thatmembercsould,inprotest andsupportc...

... and agronomists. See Mauro Ambrosoli, “The Diffusion of Luzerne, Alfalfa ( Medicago L. ) from Ancient Iran to the Mediterranean Area: A New Chronology from Recent Data” (paper presented at the European Rural History Organization Conference, Leuven, Belgium, Sept. 2017). 31. Hansen, “Notes on Hardy Alfalfas...

.... Drummond , Progress without Planning , 94 . Ontario oilmen took their expertise and technologies to Java, Singapore, Argentina, Brazil, Cuba, Australia, Indonesia, Austria, Russia, Iran, Iraq, and elsewhere; for a detailed description of the overseas work of the “foreign drillers,” including...

.... "Agricultural Transformation and Social Change in Rural Catalonia: Osona, 1850-1930." Universitat de Barcelona, Spain, 1997. Middle East Abdollahyan, Hamid. "Historical Impediments to the Development of Agri? cultural Production in Pre-capitalist Rural Iran; Absentee Landlordism." Carlton University, Canada...

... domestically. Carl Taylor and Arthur Raper pursued second careers abroad, working for land reform and rural development in (among other nations) Japan, Taiwan, India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran, and Iraq. From the postwar period intothemid-1960s,Taylor,Raper, and otherNew Deal social scientists helped create...

... percent, Egypt with 2 percent, Iran with 0.5 percent), Latin America (Brazil with 2 percent, Argentina with 1 percent, Mexico with 0.2 percent), and Africa (Sudan with 0.3 percent). Someday the growers of some or all of these regions and countries will mechanize the harvest and experience profound...