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... © 2009 Agricultural History Society 2009 Greenbackers, Knights of Labor, and Populists: Farmer-Labor Insurgency in the Late-Nineteenth-Century South . Matthew Hild . ...

...Frederick Knight Beyond Forty Acres and a Mule: African American Landowning Families since Reconstruction . Edited by Debra A. Reid and Evan P. Bennett . Gainesville : University Press of Florida , 2012 . 352 pp., $69.95 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-8130-3986-2 . © the Agricultural...

...Frederick Knight Slavery and the Enlightenment in the British Atlantic, 1750–1807 . By Justin Roberts . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2013 . 368 pp., $99.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-1-107-02585-1 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2015 2015 2015 Book Reviews found...

...Henry Knight Lozano California Dreaming: Boosterism, Memory, and Rural Suburbs in the Golden State . By Paul J. P. Sandul . Morgantown : University of West Virginia Press , 2014 . 220 pp., $27.99 , paperback, ISBN 978-1-938228-85-5 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2015...

...Peter D. Griggs Sugar, Steam and Steel: The Industrial Project in Colonial Java, 1830–1885 . By G. Roger Knight . Adelaide : University of Adelaide Press , 2014 . 256 pp., $44.00 , paperback, ISBN 978-1-922064-98-1. © 2016 the Agricultural History Society 2016 Agricultural...

...Jack E. Davis Tropic of Hopes: California, Florida, and the Selling of American Paradise, 1869–1929 . By Henry Knight . Gainesville : University Press of Florida , 2013 . 272 pp., $74.95 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-8130-4481-1 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2015 2015 2015...

..., Florida, and the Selling of American Paradise, 1869 1929. By Henry Knight. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2013. 272 pp., $74.95, hardback, ISBN 978-0-8130-4481-1. Once upon a time, Florida and California were known as Dream States. Both have sunny skies, warm weather, long waterfronts...

... declined by 1882. Yet Hild argues that they represented mere first steps toward agrarian and labor revolt in Arkansas, for 1882 also saw the advent of the Agricultural Wheel and the Brothers of Freedom, as well as the formation of Knights of Labor locals in the state (21). By mid-decade, these groups had...

... . Mayne may well have been imitating the Boy Scouts in this respect, too. The 1916 Boy Scout Handbook included a chapter on chivalry and traced the Boy Scout ideal back to King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. John L. Alexander , “Chivalry,” in Boy Scouts of America , Official Handbook...

...) Matthew Hild, Greenbackers, Knights of Labor, and Populists: Farmer-Labor Insurgency in the Late-Nineteenth-Century South (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2007), 45-78. Stephen J. Kantrowitz, Ben Tillman & the Reconstruction of White Supremacy (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina...

... that The Roots of Southern Populism appeared, discussions of the republicanism of the nineteenth-century pro ducing classes of the nation's farms, factories, and mines and how that outlook influenced their organizations (such as the Farmers' Alliance and the Knights of Labor), their political activities...

.... In Lima the Knights of Labor and Farmers' Alliance nominated John Smith, the vice-president of the state Alliance, for Congress. W. H. Likins, the president of the state Alliance, ran for Congress from the Eighth District on both the Prohibition and People's Party ticket. In the Third District, S. H...

... , Clouds, Women in Power, Knights , trans. Kenneth McLeish (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1979 ), Act 2, lines 201-5. 14 Aristophanes , Clouds, Women in Power, Knights , Act 1, line 997 Aristophanes , The Peace, The Birds, The Frogs , trans. Benjamin B. Rogers...

... Populism was a separate movement altogether. A second persistent theme is the important relationship between Populists and urban labor. Matthew Hild explains the crucial influence of the Knights of Labor in Georgia Populism; Alicia E. Rodriquez details the ways in which Dallas workingmen provided...

... our understanding of the past" (149). Dore argues thatDiriomo's history fundamentally challenges what she believes has become the orthodox Arnold Bauer/Alan Knight thesis that debt peonage did not perpetuate feudalism, but itwas an incipient form of freewage labor that facilitated a transformation...

.... Knight (on the Javanese sugar industry), M. R. Fernando (on village social differentiation and the development of off-farm labor), and Peter Boomgaard and Ben White (on the relationship of population growth to labor). Also, there is rather too much reliance on dated Dutch published sources...

... three or four decades on Java s social and economic history. One looks in vain for serious analysis of the contribution to the field of such scholars as G. R. Knight (on the Javanese sugar industry), M. R. Fernando (on village social differentiation and the development of off-farm labor), and Peter...

... that still resonates today. Henry Knight Lozano Northumbria University Taming Manhattan: Environmental Battles in the Antebellum City. By Catherine McNeur. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2014. 320 pp., $29.95, hardback, ISBN 978-0-674-72509-6. Catherine McNeur has written an accessible and engaging...

... for scholars and students interested in slave labor in the New World and the Caribbean and North America in particular, this is a valuable text. Frederick Knight Morehouse College Oil For Food: The Global Food Crisis and the Middle East. By Eckart Woertz. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013. 328 pp...

... by Marjory Stoneman Douglas to extol Florida s natural endowments. And he overlooked Nicole Cox s award-winning article, Selling Seduction (2010), on how the feminine quality was used to promote Florida. Still, Knight s is a good book, nicely written, smartly organized, and insightful with a shocking price...