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...Jahue Anderson Abstract This is the story of failure: in this case, an irrigation project that never met its boosters' expectations. Between 1880 and 1930 Wichita Falls entrepreneur Joseph Kemp dreamed of an agrarian Eden on the Texas rolling plains. Kemp promoted reclamation and conservation...

... this book an interesting read. Gene Kritsky College of Mount St. Joseph Chicken. By Annie Potts. London: Reaktion Press, 2012. 216 pp., $19.95, paperback, ISBN 978-1-86189-858-6. Annie Potts s Chicken will please the expert chicken fancier as well as anyone with a passing curiosity about the contemporary...

...Joseph P. Reidy Remaking Wormsloe Plantation: The Environmental History of a Lowcountry Landscape . By Drew A. Swanson . Athens : University of Georgia Press , 2012 . 320 pp., $34.95 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-8203-4177-4 . © the Agricultural History society, 2014 2014...

...Joseph Key Exploring Lewis and Clark: Reflections on Men and Wilderness . Thomas P. Slaughter . Copyright 2004 Agricultural History Society 2004 368 / Agricultural History Exploring Lewis and Clark: Reflections on Men and Wilderness. By Thomas P. Slaughter. New York: Alfred A. Knopf...

...JOSEPH J. JONES Abstract In the second half of the nineteenth century, lumbermen logged the virgin pine forests of northern Michigan. The assumption was that the u plow would follow the axe, "and agriculture would dominate the region as it did in the southern half of the state. When farming did...

...JOSEPH M. HODGE Abstract This article draws attention to the unfolding debate concerning forest cover loss, climatic change, and declining cocoa production in the Gold Coast (Colonial Ghana) during the early twentieth century. It argues that, although desiccationist theory was prevalent, its...

...Joseph F. Donnermeyer AgriculturHalistory Spring inotherregionsofTennesseeB. utRayhasdonehispartwell.Thosestudying therelationshibpetweenagriculturaelconomicsand politicswillfindmuch to informthem. WilliamBruceWheeler UniversitoyfTennessee GrowingUp Amish:The TeenageYears.By RichardA...

...Joseph Cullon The Great Meadow: Farmers and the Land in Colonial Concord . Brian Donahue . Copyright 2007 Agricultural History Society 2007 2007 BookReviews The Great Meadow: Farmersand the Land in Colonial Concord. By Brian Donahue. New Haven: Yale UniversityPress, 2004. 344 pp...

...Joseph E. Taylor, III Coyote Valley: Deep History in the High Rockies . By Thomas G. Andrews . Cambridge : Harvard University Press , 2015 . 352 pp., $29.95 , hardback, ISBN 978-0674-08857-3. © 2016 the Agricultural History Society 2016 Agricultural History Spring Coyote...

...Joseph A. Tainter Untaming the Frontier in Anthropology, Archaeology, and History . Bradley J. Parker and Lars Rodseth . Copyright 2008 Agricultural History Society 2008 2008 Global/Comparative UntamingtheFrontierinAnthropologyA, rchaeology,andHistory.Ed ited by Bradley J.Parker...

...Joseph E. Taylor, III George Perkins Marsh: Prophet of Conservation . David Lowenthal . Copyright 2001 Agricultural History Society 2001 374 / Agricultural History tury?"a path filled with hatred, horror, and sorrow" (197). Although the comparison may be forced and the parallels...

...Joseph P. Reidy 824 / Agricultural History cotton, the influence of federal programs such as the Commodity Credit Corporation and the new shifts in global cotton trading. Anderson also emphasizes the need for teamwork by all segments of the industry to keep cot? ton a viable product in the world...

... of Joseph Nudelman: A Biography as Related by His Sons Hyman, Robert and Louis," 1969,5–6 5 Abraham R. Levy , "Central North Dakota’s Jewish Farmers in 1903," Western States Jewish Historical Quarterly11 (October1978): 11 , note 17 6 Ina H. Stiner and others, "Some Studies in Local...

...Rachel Newcomb Fertile Bonds: Bedouin Class, Kinship, and Gender in the Bekaa Valley . By Suzanne E. Joseph . Gainesville : University Press of Florida , 2013 . 246 pp., $74.95 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-8130-4461-3 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2015 2015 Agricultural...

..., Kinship, and Gender in the Bekaa Valley. By Suzanne e. Joseph. gainesville: university Press of Florida, 2013. 246 pp., $74.95, hardback, iSBn 978-0-8130-4461-3. in Fertile Bonds, anthropologist Suzanne Joseph examines social class and fertility among the Bedouins of the Bekaa valley in lebanon...

...: Gale Research Co., 1976 ) Graeme Quick and Wesley Buchele, The Grain Harvesters (St. Joseph, Mich.: American Society of Agricultural Engineers, 1978 ) R. Douglas Hurt , American Farm Tools: From Hand Power to Steam Power (Manhattan, Kan.: Sunflower University Press, 1982...

... & the Transforma? tion of a Midwestern Country Town. By Joseph A. Amato and John Radzilowski. Marshall, Minn.: Crossings Press, 1999. 118 pp., $11.95, pa? perback, ISBN 0-9614119-9-6. In his role as dean of the Center for Rural and Regional Studies at South? west State University in Marshall, Minnesota, Joseph...

... Called Home: Writings on the Midwestern Small Town ( St. Paul : Minnesota Historical Society Press , 2003 ), 16 . 28. Danbom , Born in the Country , Chpt. 11; Joseph Amato and John W. Meyer , The Decline of Rural Minnesota ( Marshall, Minn. : Crossings Press , 1993 ). 29...

... Joseph Robidoux (born in 1784) and his brothers as they operated on the upper and lower Missouri, the Platte, and in the 553 Agricultural History Fall Mexican Southwest. Willoughby is particularly good at demonstrating the rise of entrepreneurialism, competition, and changing business models, as well...

...Susan E. Gray Rethinking Home: A Case for Writing Local History . Joseph A. Amato . Copyright 2002 Agricultural History Society 2002 Book Reviews / 723 Rethinking Home: A Case for Writing Local History. By Joseph A. Amato. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. 245 pp...