...Edith M. Ziegler Abstract The Commission on Country Life established by Theodore Roosevelt submitted its report in January 1909. Its vision of a country life that could be as economically viable and genuinely fulfilling as an urban alternative is still relevant. In fact, as twenty-first-century...

...Cynthia G. Falk Life on a Rocky Farm: Rural Life near New York City in the Late Nineteenth Century . By Lucas C. Barger . Albany : State University of New York Press , 2013 . 190 pp., $19.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-1-4384-46028 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2013 2013...

...Dan Philippon A Passion for Nature: The Life of John Muir . Donald Worster . © 2010 Agricultural History Society 2010 AgriculturHalistory Spring A PassionforNature:The Life ofJohnMuir.By Donald WorsterN. ew York: OxfordUniversityPress,2008. 512 pp., $34.95,hardback,ISBN 978-0-516682...

...Rebecca Sharpless Copyright 2000 Agricultural History Society 2000 The Bottom Rung: African American Family Life on Southern Farms . Stewart E. Tolnay . Book Reviews / 703 Worster's Rivers of Empire (1985). But he does note that even Hay den rec? ognized that new environmental voices...

...Olaf F. Larson; Julie N. Zimmerman [Footnotes] 1 Office of the Secretary , "Report of the Committee Appointed by the Secretary of Agricul¬ ture to Consider the Subject of Farm Life Studies as One of the Divisions of Research Work of the Proposed Bureau of Farm Management and Farm...

...Todd LeVasseur © the Agricultural History Society, 2011 2011 Wendell Berry and Religion: Heaven's Earthly Life . Edited by Joel James Shuman and L. Roger Owens . Lexington : University Press of Kentucky , 2009 . 272 pp., $40.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-8131-2555-8...

...Edda L. Fields-Black African American Life in the Georgia Lowcountry: The Atlantic World and the Gullah Geechee . Edited By Philip Morgan . Athens : University of Georgia Press , 2010 . 368 pp., $34.95 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-8203-3064-8 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2011...

...Amy Lauters As a Farm Woman Thinks: Life and Land on the Texas High Plains, 1890–1960 . By Nellie Witt Spikes . Edited by Geoff Cunfer . Lubbock : Texas Tech University Press , 2010 . 288 pp., $34.95 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-89672-710-6 . © the Agricultural History Society...

...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...

...Leo E. Oliva Cowboy's Lament: A Life on the Open Range . By Frank Maynard . Edited by Jim Hoy . Lubbock : Texas Tech University Press , 2010 . 248 pp., $29.50 , hardback, ISBN 978-89672-705-2 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2011 2011 Agricultural History Summer...

...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...

...Jeremy Vetter Evolutionary History: Uniting History and Biology to Understand Life on Earth . By Edmund Russell . New York : Cambridge University Press , 2011 . 230 pp., $22.99 , paperback, ISBN 978-0-521-74509-3 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2012 2012 2012 Book...

...Patricia Stovey When Horses Pulled the Plow: Life of a Wisconsin Farm Boy, 1910–1929 . By Olaf F. Larson . Madison : University of Wisconsin Press , 2011 . 168 pp., $17.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-0-299-28204-2 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2012 2012 2012 Book Reviews...

...Steven Reschly New York Amish: Life in the Plain Communities of the Empire State . Karen M. Johnson-Weiner . Ithaca : Cornell University Press , 2010 . 240 pp., $24.95 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-8014-4518-7 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2012 2012 Agricultural History...

...Mary E. Grigsby Opening Windows onto Hidden Lives: Women, Country Life, and Early Rural Sociological Research . By Julie N. Zimmerman and Olaf F. Larson , 2010 . State College : Pennsylvania State University Press , 2011 . 240 pp., $64.95 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-271-03728-8...

... of a four-volume journal kept by James Wilson, a farmer in the Banffshire Parish of Deskford between 1879 and 1892. This journal provides a detailed picture of many aspects of rural life including farming, family, neighbors, religion, friends, and entertainment. Moreover, Wilson wrote poetry and kept...

...Gary A. Goreham The Church and the Land: The National Catholic Rural Life Conference and American Society, 1923–2007 . By David S. Bovée . Washington, DC : Catholic University of America Press , 2010 . 399 pp., $79.95 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-8132-1720-8 . © the Agricultural...

...Michael Decker Playing the Farmer: Representations of Rural Life in Vergil's Georgics . By Philip Thibodeau . Berkeley : University of California Press , 2011 . 336 pp., $60.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-520-268326 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2013 2013 Agricultural...

...Jonathan Kissock Life in Medieval Landscapes: People and Places in the Middle Ages: Papers in Memory of H. S. A. Fox . Edited by Sam Turner and Bob Silvester . Oxford : Windgather Press , 2012 . 303 pp., $60.00 , paperback, ISBN 978-1-905119-40-0 . © the Agricultural History...

...Romina Robles Ruvalcaba Sugarcane and Rum: The Bittersweet History of Labor and Life on the Yucatán Peninsula . By John R. Gust and Jennifer P. Matthews . Tucson : University of Arizona Press , 2020 . 192 pp., $29.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-0-8165-3888-1. © 2021 Agricultural...