...Abigail P. Dowling Negotiating the Landscape: Environment and Monastic Identity in the Medieval Ardennes . By Ellen F. Arnold . Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press , 2013 . 320 pp., $65.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-8122-4463-2 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2015...

... Trappel University of Freiburg Europe The Shaping of Tuscany: Landscape and Society between Tradition and Modernity. By Dario Gaggio. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. 307 pp., $99.99, hardback, ISBN 978-1-1071-2777-7. In The Shaping of Tuscany, Dario Gaggio provides a rare and resonant account...

...Marilyn Morris The Transformation of Rural England: Farming and the Landscape, 1700–1870 . Tom Williamson . Copyright 2002 Agricultural History Society 2002 Book Reviews / 741 intersection of religion and rurality in general and in the Anabaptist tradition in particular. Rebecca...

...Thomas Wien The Metamorphoses of Landscape and Community in Early Quebec . Colin M. Coates . Copyright 2002 Agricultural History Society 2002 128 / Agricultural History The Metamorphoses of Landscape and Community in Early Quebec. By Colin M. Coates. Montreal: McGill-Queen's...

...Gerald D. Nash Irrigated Eden: The Making of an Agricultural Landscape in the American West . Mark Fiege . Copyright 2001 Agricultural History Society 2001 Book Reviews / 129 Lacking a deep biographical tradition of Morrill, Cross wrote a straightforward political narrative, short...

...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...

...Peter Dewey Roots of Change: Farming and the Landscape in East Anglia, c.1700–1870 . Susanna Wade Martins and Tom Williamson . Copyright 2001 Agricultural History Society 2001 Book Reviews / 245 public elementary schools in their settlements and integrated high schools...

...Amanda Lewis-Nang’ea Farming and Famine: Landscape Vulnerability in Northeast Ethiopia, 1889–1991 . By Donald E. Crummey . Edited by James C. McCann . Madison : University of Wisconsin Press , 2018 . 312 pp., $79.95 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-299-31630-3. © 2019 Agricultural...

... in the island’s agricultural history when plantations of clove trees gave way to more diverse small-scale agricultural systems. Beginning in the early years of the twentieth century, former slaves began a landscape overhaul that combined a suite of Asian, African, and American plants with methods and knowledge...

...John C. Rodrigue 122 / Agricultural History cultivation took credit for its success and used it to bind thousands to hard labor. For Africans, it was indeed "black rice." Daniel C. Littlefield University of South Carolina Delta Sugar: Louisiana's Vanishing Plantation Landscape. By John B. Re- hder...

...Paula M. Nelson A Thousand Pieces of Paradise: Landscape and Property in the Kickapoo Valley . Lynne Heasley . Copyright 2008 Agricultural History Society 2008 Agricultural History Winter ideology, underlies what many of us mean when we say we want to preserve traditional agriculture...

...Robert S. Davis Nature’s Management: Writings on Landscape and Reform, 1822-1859 . Edmund Ruffin and Jack Temple Kirby . Copyright 2008 Agricultural History Society 2008 2008 BookReviews meat has been defined by inequality, exploitation, and power from (at least) the industry's...

...Sara Gregg AgriculturHalistory Summer NorthAmerica The Landscape of Reform: Civic Pragmatism and Environmental Thought inAmerica. By Ben A. Minteer. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2006. 272 pp., $28.00,paperback, ISBN 0-262-13461-6. Ben A. Minteer's study of the contributions of civic pragmatism to environ...

...Alan Mikhail Millennial Landscape Change in Jordan: Geoarchaeology and Cultural Ecology . Carlos E. Cordova . Copyright 2007 Agricultural History Society 2007 Book Reviews Middle East Millennial Landscape Change inJordanG: eoarchaeology and Cultural Ecology. By Carlos E. Cordova...

...Alon Tal Arab/American: Landscape, Culture, and Cuisine in Two Great Deserts . Gary Paul Nabhan . © 2009 Agricultural History Society 2009 2009 BookReviews The "Animal"seriesthatthisdelightfuvlolumebelongsto has thusfar beendevotedtowildspeciesp, lusdogsanda prospectivbeookoncatsT...

...Michael Turner The Landscape of Food: The Food Relationship of Town and Country in Modern Times . Marjatta Hietala and Tanja Vahtikari . Copyright 2007 Agricultural History Society 2007 Agricultural History Spring lenge was also taken up by Catholic religious communities, which...

...Sally McMurry Connecticut Valley Vernacular: The Vanishing Landscape and Architecture of the New England Tobacco Fields . James F. O’Gorman . Copyright 2003 Agricultural History Society 2003 620 / Agricultural History Leicester sheep. Much of the rest of Genetic Prehistory...

...Jan Logemann Landscape and Images . John R. Stilgoe . Copyright 2007 Agricultural History Society 2007 2007 Book Reviews relevant to theirown work is something agricultural historians can judge for themselves. It is tomine. Brian Donahue Brandeis University Landscape and Images.By...

... the land’s capacity for market agriculture. Slaves cleared land of its wood to prepare the terrain for planting, provide Britain’s empire with vital commodities, and build the infrastructure of daily material life in the region. As colonists and slaves came into sustained engagement with this landscape...

...Kendra Smith-Howard Creating Dairyland: How Caring for Cows Saved Our Soils, Created Our Landscape, Brought Prosperity to Our State, and Still Shapes Our Way of Life in Wisconsin . By Edward Janus . Madison : Wisconsin State Historical Society Press , 2011 . 232 pp., $26.95...