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... for its estimates of the numbers, capital, and spatial density of stores in the Cotton South. While paralleling the categories, methods, and evidentiary sources of One Kind of Freedom, this article instead takes a micro-level approach, comparing store development in two Reconstruction-era Louisiana...

...Andrew Sluyter Abstract A longstanding assumption posits that white ranchers from the French Caribbean colony of Saint-Domingue, now Haiti, provided the knowledge to establish the first cattle ranches in Louisiana in the mid-eighteenth century, that blacks merely provided the labor...

...Brooks Blevins A Store Almost in Sight: The Economic Transformation of Missouri from the Louisiana Purchase to the Civil War . By Jeff Bremer . Iowa City : University of Iowa press , 2014 . 252 pp., $39.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-1-60938-226-1 . © the Agricultural History Society...

...Joshua S. Haynes Natchez Country: Indians, Colonists, and the Landscapes of Race in French Louisiana . By George Edward Milne . Athens : University of Georgia Press , 2015 . 312 pp., $26.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-0-8203-4750-9 . © 2016 Agricultural History Society 2016...

... in West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, between 1813 and 1845. Using a combination of documentary property information with a GIS reconstruction of women’s landholdings in the parish, this article assesses the quality of land that women owned and their involvement with it. The study argues that women, like...

...Sally G. McMillen Copyright 2007 Agricultural History Society 2007 The Sugar Masters: Planters and Slaves in Louisiana’s Cane World, 1820–1860 . Richard Follett . Agricultural History Spring The second group comprised English agricultural laborers and unskilled workers tired of low...

...Gordon E. Harvey A Fierce and Fractious Frontier: The Curious Development of Louisiana’s Florida Parishes, 1699-2000 . Samuel C. Hyde Jr. . Copyright 2006 Agricultural History Society 2006 366 / Agricultural History tory of a school whose curriculum provided far more than...

...Susan E. Dollar Steamboats on Louisiana’s Bayous: A History and Directory . Carl A. Brasseaux and Keith P. Fontenot . Copyright 2006 Agricultural History Society 2006 378 / Agricultural History Paleolithic and Neolithic. Rather, it is the imaginary John Lubbock who trav? els...

...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...

...Robert Tracy McKenzie Reconstruction in the Cane Fields: From Slavery to Free Labor in Louisiana’s Sugar Parishes, 1862–1880 . John C. Rodrigue . Copyright 2002 Agricultural History Society 2002 Book Reviews / 703 Reconstruction in the Cane Fields: From Slavery to Free Labor...

... of the greatest concentration of camps and captive workers devoted to a single crop occurred along the southern stretch of the Mississippi River. Cotton planters in Arkansas, Mississippi, and northern Louisiana secured over twelve thousand war prisoners from 1943 to 1946. German and Italian prisoners reinforced...

... counterparts. Robert B. Outland III Louisiana State University The Color of the Land: Race, Nation, and the Politics of Landownership in Oklahoma, 1832 1929. By David A. Chang. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2010. 312 pp., $22.95, paperback, ISBN 978-0-8078-7106-5. Winner of the 2010 Saloutos...

... histories and contemporary reflections of four New Mexicans of Navajo, Hispanic, Pueblo, and Anglo heritage, albeit not in their own words. Contrasting and comparing their experiences and perspectives provides a fitting end to this engaging book. Andrew Sluyter Louisiana State University The Makers...

...Samuel C. Hyde, Jr. The Garden Diary of Martha Turnbull, Mistress of Rosedown Plantation . Ed. by Suzanne Turner . Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press , 2012 . 366 pp., $39.95 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-8071-4411-4 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2014 2014 2014...

...Michael Pasquier Environmental Disaster in the Gulf South: Two Centuries of Catastrophe, Risk, and Resilience . Edited by Cindy Ermus . Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press , 2018 . 216 pp., $45.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-8071-6710-6. © 2020 Agricultural History Society...

... satisfying volume that is an important contribution to southern water politics and environmental history. craig e. colten Louisiana State University Addressing Contagion: Science, Policy, and Conflicts over Animal Disease Control. By alan l. olmstead and Paul W. rhode. cambridge: Harvard university Press...

... of a labor gang on large improvement projects. In Louisiana, William Howard Russell observed that Irish workers traveled “about the country under contractors, or are engaged by resident gangsmen for the task.” 90 Russell was informed about contractor John Loghlin's gang of Irish workers, who had labored...

... 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. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999. 355...

..., for example, Manuel Barcia Paz , Seeds of Insurrection: Domination and Resistance on Western Cuban Plantations, 1808–1848 ( Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press , 2008 ); Lisa Yun , The Coolie Speaks: Chinese Indentured Laborers and African Slaves in Cuba ( Philadelphia : Temple...