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...Renee M. Laegreid Home Lands: How Women Made the West . By Virginia Scharff and Carolyn Brucken . Los Angeles : Autry Center of the American West , 2010 . 184 pp., $24.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-0-520-26219-5 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2012 2012 Agricultural...

...Catharine A. Wilson How Agriculture Made Canada: Farming in the Nineteenth Century . By Peter A. Russell . Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press , 2012 . 312 pp., $34.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-0-7735-4065-1 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2014 2014 2014 Book Reviews...

...Kimberly K. Porter Sod Busting: How Families Made Farms on the Nineteenth-Century Plains . By David B. Danbom . Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press , 2014 . 144 pp., $19.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-1-4214-1451-5 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2015 2015 2015 Book...

... University of Oklahoma Cotton: The Fabric that Made the Modern World. By Giorgio Riello. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. 434 pp., $35.00, hardcover, ISBN 978-1-107-00022-3. This graceful global history divides the story of cotton into three periods. Between 1000 and 1500 CE a centrifugal...

...Patrick Dixon Slaughterhouse: Chicago’s Union Stock Yard and the World It Made . By Dominic A. Pacyga . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 2015 . 256 pp., $26.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-2261-2309-7 . © 2018 Agricultural History Society 2018 134 Agricultural History...

...Carole Emberton The World the Civil War Made . Edited by Gregory P. Downs and Kate Masur . Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press , 2015 . 392 pp., $29.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-1-469602418-1 . © 2016 Agricultural History Society 2016 Agricultural History Summer...

...James Hill Welborn III Race Horse Men: How Slavery and Freedom Were Made at the Racetrack . By Katherine C. Mooney . Cambridge : Harvard University Press , 2014 . 336 pp., $35.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-674-28142-4 . © 2016 Agricultural History Society 2016 2016 Book Reviews...

... and assistance, coupled with New Delhi's imperative to become self-sufficient in food-grain production. For Indian scientific elites, the possibility of “man-made evolution” through radiation-induced mutations was institutionally promising. Indian scientists became the standard-bearers of atomic agriculture...

... of the Great Plains, these disasters could not be forecast, and employers instead shunted climatic risk onto impoverished migrants, whose contracts were ad hoc, informal, and could be made, completed, or broken in a matter of hours. It compiles data from over ten thousand newspapers in the Great Plains to show...

... into a nonrenewable landscape. Using one nonrenewable resource (fossil fuels) to exploit another (ancient groundwater), farmers broke the ecological constraints of the region’s semiarid environment and dramatically boosted cropland productivity. The development of North America’s largest natural gas field made...

...Douglas McCalla Abstract Based on account books, a frequently overlooked type of source, this is a study of grocery purchases made by sample customers from some country stores in Upper Canada (Ontario), in selected years between 1808 and 1861. Although literary sources suggest otherwise, no one...

...Nathan B. Sanderson Abstract With the opening of the Black Hills to white settlement in the mid-1870s, thousands of fortune-seekers made their way into Dakota Territory. George Edward Lemmon, a man later renowned as one of the world's most accomplished cowboys, was among them. During the 1880s his...

... during the “managed crisis” of the harvest. At the same time, they aggressively pursued business strategies that would regularize production and marketing. However, the commercialization of agriculture made them more vulnerable to boycotts by the United Farm Workers Union, which forced California growers...

... infrastructure that integrated the press, the post, and agricultural societies, the appeal of silk drew in farmers and manufacturers of all classes and across many regions. Their disparate circumstances and motivations made a peculiar interest group, but one that secured considerable political and promotional...

.... Nonetheless, the gains they made suggest that this failure was not simply rooted in the backward and non-productive motivations of ranchers themselves. Instead, the limits of Colombian ranching also need to be understood in the context of the domestic market, the paucity of state assistance...

... these communities in the wake of the farm crisis in the early 1990s. For a multitude of reasons, the long-term experiences of the communities often bore very little relation to the predictions made in the 1940s. This article discusses a planned project to re-examine one of these small places, Irwin, Iowa, in order...

... for doing so. They made changes to their production practices because of specific problems they encountered with the conventional system. In the 1980s several pioneering farmers turned to on-farm processing and sold their dairy products in alternative retail outlets. They were also instrumental...

... to frontiers such as sparse settlement, gender imbalance, the absence of infrastructure, the weakness of traditional Old World institutions, and racism lowered respect for authority and made law enforcement extremely difficult. The author suggests that the truth of the latter thesis is bolstered by the fact...

... small family farms by bringing water to the desert lands of the West. That effort failed, in part because farming was becoming less attractive in the United States during the early decades of the 20th century, in part because irrigation was too expensive, and in part because the bureau made many...

... their efficiency and were able to lower prices. Lower prices made the products of American plantations affordable to an ever-growing number of European consumers. The increased consumption fueled the expansion of the American plantation colonies, transformed the Atlantic into an English inland sea, and led...