...Diana Chen Magic Bean: The Rise of Soy in America . By Matthew Roth . Lawrence : University Press of Kansas , 2018 . 344 pp., $24.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-0-7006-2634-2. © 2019 Agricultural History Society 2019 564 Agricultural History dation of environmentalism when...

... in search of a method, of a way of responding to the question, How best to get across a sense of people, place, and history which, in this case, will help change history, meaning the paramilitarized invasion of oil palm? (190). Making frequent comparisons with magical realism in literature, Taussig frames...

... of the reformers I study. Luke Manget Dalton State College Magic Bean: The Rise of Soy in America. By Matthew Roth. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2018. 344 pp., $24.95, paperback, ISBN 978-0-70062634-2. Pure white and smooth with only a hint of grassy flavor, the soy product called tofu has both...

.... Fayetteville Observer , Nov. 4, 1851 , 4 ; July 7, 1870 , 4 ; Anderson , “Popular Beliefs,” 317 ; Vance Randolph , Ozark Magic and Folklore ( New York : Dover , 1947 ), 51 ; Massey , Bittersweet Country , 86 ; Eliot Wigginton , Foxfire 3: Animal Care, Banjos and Dulcimers, Hide...

... Chilean Nitrate Dealer Contest—Views of Judges, Dealers, and Others,” 17, vol. 640, FSAL, ANH. 92. “Results of the 1931 Chilean Nitrate Dealer Contest—Views of Judges, Dealers, and Others,” 36. 93. Chile Nitrate of Soda Educational Bureau, The Magic Desert: The Romance of a Great Discovery...

... that honey bees possessed special significance in the region s culture. Additional support appears in semiotic uses of bees in tombs, temples, titles, and the bee s representation of the Delta region. Kritsky also asserts magical qualities emanating from the bee origin story in Salt 825 (104...

.... Kritsky also asserts magical qualities emanating from the bee origin story in Salt 825 (104). Such elements certainly prove that bees played a contributing role in the era s culture, but they do not seem exceptional in a pantheonic culture with a plethora of creation stories and a title-laden...

... machine—emerged as technological magic bullets that promised to end costly and unpopular quarantine regimes. Lukas Engelmann and Christos Lynteris argue that these fumigation technologies sprang from and shaped utopian visions of frictionless global trade freed from the public health threats of a world...

... and revolt associated with Obeah a set of magical beliefs and practices paralleled by vodou in the French colonies was deeply embedded in the mechanisms of knowledge production and circulation. A window into a distant, yet oddly familiar, world, Schiebinger s book reminds us that our contemporary notions...

... into Cuba and Hawaii. By contrast, Barbara Hahn s Tobacco s Commodity Route suggests that tobacco planters used the regulatory state and marketing magic to create the perception of differentiation and better quality where little actually existed. Unlike sugar or cotton, neither botany nor technology...

... Between the presidential elections of 2016 and 2020, political commentators used the words populist and populism to describe voter discontent and support for Donald Trump. Too often, these political terms were misused and misunderstood, and they were magically applied to a variety of groups that had...

... markedly different from eastern Virginia. Hofstra magically recreates an immensely complex world (to which a review cannot do complete justice). The "new" in "New Virginia" represents not simply a later period of settlement, but a different society that much more resembled the nineteenth-century American...

..., it is not unexpected that the lower Shenandoah Valley developed in ways markedly different from eastern Virginia. Hofstra magically recreates an immensely complex world (to which a review cannot do complete justice). The "new" in "New Virginia" represents not simply a later period of settlement, but a different...

... through them always assigned an equal value. The suppression of potentially valuable data through prejudice, as in the case of the information supplied by female midwives, or the fear of sorcery and revolt associated with Obeah a set of magical beliefs and practices paralleled by vodou in the French...

... for poor land use practices with little track record of success (151). The final chapter reveals how Nigerian officials continued to employ the same type of British-style development planning long after independence. The leaders of the new nation still viewed agriculture as the magic bullet that would end...

... of animals, plants, planets, minerals, lands, waters, and peoples, and frames European science alongside religion, intrigue, magic, and non-European ways of knowing (8). One of the book s unique strengths is its methodological framework and inclusive approach to the history of science, which emphasizes...

... with new technology and labor sources afterward, but were thwarted by government policies, including the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act and US expansion into Cuba and Hawaii. By contrast, Barbara Hahn s Tobacco s Commodity Route suggests that tobacco planters used the regulatory state and marketing magic...

... was some what disillusioning. We learned a lot of technical material, but it soon became evident that economies could not provide a magical understanding of the mysteries of society and social change. In that context, the one field that was open to exploring broader and more challenging conceptualizations...

..., thinkers like William Ellsworth Smythe, publisher of Irrigation Age and author of The Conquest of Arid America (1899), proclaimed new magic-by-irrigation gospels during the 1890s, and such boosting for irrigation became even more infectious in commercial, publish? ing, and learned circles after 1900...

... of metapopulation and landscape ecology, are applicable for study of candidate species for AWPM” ( 30 ). 7. Jama Grove , “‘Unjustified Expectations of Magic’: Arkansas Agricultural Specialists Adoption of DDT and 2,4-D,” paper in possession of author, 7 – 9 ; Mark Curtis Wilson and Ralph L. Davis...