...Christine Fojtik Thomas's monograph is especially useful as a model for linking local histories to national and transnational narratives. He resists simply projecting changes at the national level onto the local one, even as the national and the international are ever-present in the minds...

...Gloria Main Building the Bay Colony: Local Economy and Culture in Early Massachusetts . James E. Mc Williams . © 2009 Agricultural History Society 2009 AgriculturHalistory Fall ibilityof his goals.The local environmenctould not supportlandedindependencewithoutthe embraceof...

...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...

...Nicole L. Freiner These processes shouldn't be dismissed as the shadow of bigger ones. They matter to how we understand boundaries, the relationship between formal and informal institutions as well as national and local-level policy implementation. Although the author reveals that he has “opened...

...Dario A. Euraque Globalized Fruit, Local Entrepreneurs: How One Banana-Exporting Country Achieved Worldwide Reach . By Douglas Southgate and Lois Roberts . Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press , 2016 . 232 pp., $59.95 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-8122-4807-4 . © 2017...

...Jennifer L. Anderson Local Subversions of Colonial Cultures: Commodities and Anti-Commodities in Global History . Edited by Sandip Hazareesingh and Harro Maat . London : Palgrave Macmillan , 2016 . $100.00 , 224 pp., hardback, ISBN 978-1-137-38109-5 . © 2017 Agricultural History...

...Jill R. Webster Poblament, territori i història rural. VI Congrès sobre Sistemes Agraris, Organització Social i Poder Local . By Jordi Bolòs and Enric Vicedo . Lleida, Spain : Institut d'Estudis Ilerdencs , 2009 . 764 pp., price unknown, hardback, ISBN 978-84-96908-28-4 . ©...

...Douglas W. Allen Legalising Land Rights: Local Practices, State Responses, and Tenure Security in Africa, Asia and Latin America . Edited by Janine M. Ubrink, André J. Hoekema, and Willem J. Assies . Leiden : Leiden University Press , 2010 , 618 pp., $69.50 , paperback, ISBN 978-90...

... as a writer, as well as his experiences with manual farm work and the methods of environmentalist organic growers. He eventually concluded that only a community of farmers could produce and store effective knowledge and insisted that knowledge must be tacit—largely situated in locality, skills, and culture...

...Gene Kritsky Beeconomy: What Women and Bees Can Teach Us about Local Trade and the Global Market . By Tammy Horn . Lexington : University Press of Kentucky , 2012 . 376 pp., $29.95 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-8131-3435-2 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2012 2012 Agricultural...

...Don Garden Global Industry, Local Innovation: The History of Cane Sugar Production in Australia, 1820–1995 . By Peter D. Griggs . Bern : Peter Lang , 2011 . 964 pp., $124.95 , hardback, ISBN 978-3-0343-0431-3 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2012 2012 Agricultural...

...José-Miguel Lana Berasain Condicions De Vida Al Món Rural: Cinque Congrés Sobre Sistemes Agraris, Organització Social I Poder Local . Jordi Bolós , Antonieta Jarne and Enric Vicedo . Copyright 2008 Agricultural History Society 2008 AgriculturHalistory Spring Volume five...

...Christopher A. Conte Challenging Nature: Local Knowledge, Agroscience, and Food Security in Tanga Region, Tanzania . Philip W. Porter . Copyright 2008 Agricultural History Society 2008 Book Reviews Africa ChallengingNature:Local Knowledge,Agroscience,and Food Security inTanga Region...

...–1783 Mill Records 1733–1784 49 Iron Accounts 1725–1783 Mill Records 1733–1784 Dauer, "The Hinterland Commercial System" Lemon, The Best Poor Man s Country, 118–49 "Cash for his turnups": Agricultural Production for Local Markets Pennsylvania, 1725-1783 in Colonial MICHAEL V. KENNEDY...

...Catarina Passidomo Real Pigs: Shifting Values in the Field of Local Pork . By Brad Weiss . Durham : Duke University Press , 2016 . 312 pp., $24.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-0-8223-6157-2 . © 2017 Agricultural History Society 2017 448 Agricultural History critical for the trek s...

... in two rural German Catholic communities in central Minnesota and asserts the power of local culture to shape the communities’ response to the nativism unleashed by the war. More specifically, the war exacerbated pre-existing conflict between area farmers and members of the village merchant class...

... to the region by the rapidly expanding sugar beet industry. To address these perceived threats, state and local public officials, civic organizations, and the sugar industry launched a campaign to replace Mexican migrant laborers with local teenage workers. Hence, the number of Mexican people in the region...

... Province suggests that grain registration, both data gathering and interpretation, played a complex role in the evolution of grain procurement policy. The implementation of registration was impacted by local conditions and was embraced when and where it served local interests. Registration contributed...

...Deborah Fitzgerald Abstract Although most Americans enjoy a plethora of food choices, as well as an abundance of foods throughout the year, most of this food is processed and travels a long way to our tables. In exchange for plentiful food, evidently, we have given up local and regional sources...

...-handed commitment to democracy. They merged social science with local knowledge and integrated federal action with citizen participation. These activist principles were best exemplified in a Third New Deal program called county land-use planning, within which sociologists played two roles. First...