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... Market: The Business and Politics of Natural Foods. By Laura J. Miller. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017. 288 pp., $35.00, paperback, ISBN 978-0-226-50137-6. Seeking a natural snack, a hungry shopper in a grocery store these days could fill up an unlabeled container with carob-coated almonds...

... the farm to consider market integration,Rome's public grain supply, and government interven tion in the grain market. A brief conclusion follows in which Erdkamp summarizes his arguments and discusses the possibility of economic growth in the empire. He is cautiously optimistic. The book, which also...

...-521-83878-8. The title of Erdkamp's new book fails to do it justice. This study looks at much more than the grain market. Indeed, the first three chapters are a wide-ranging discussion of-and excellent introduction to-Roman agricul ture. They also examine the cultivation of olives and grapes...

...Béatrice Craig; Judith Rygiel; Elizabeth Turcotte The Homespun Market-Oriented in the Nineteenth Paradox: Production of Cloth in Eastern Canada Century BEATRICE CRAIG, JUDITH RYGIEL, ELIZABETH TURCOTTE Domestic manufacturing and outwork in the European countryside has gen? erated a tremendous...

...Peter A. Coclanis The Market Preparation of Carolina Rice: An Illustrated History of Innovations in the Lowcountry Rice Kingdom . By Richard Dwight Porcher Jr. and William Robert Judd . Columbia : University of South Carolina Press , 2014 . 379 pp., $59.95 , hardback, ISBN 978-1...

...Eric Schluessel Borderland Capitalism: Turkestan Produce, Qing Silver, and the Birth of an Eastern Market . By Kwangmin Kim . Stanford : Stanford University Press , 2016 . 312 pp., $65.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-8047-9923-2 . © 2018 Agricultural History Society 2018 Book...

...Matthew Hild The Making of the Populist Movement: State, Market, and Party on the Western Frontier . By Adam Slez . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2020 . 280 pp., $55.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-1900-9050-0. © 2021 Agricultural History Society 2021 392 Agricultural History...

...Ito Atsushi Abstract The US Government concluded Public Law (PL) 480 Title I agreements with Japan in 1955 and 1956. The purpose of this article is to reexamine Japanese market development programs under PL 480. The findings are as follows: (1) Japan was regarded as a potential market for rice...

... in Tobaccoland," 564 Hart and Chestang, "Rural Revolution.’ This Little Piggy Went to Market: The Commercialization of Hog Production in Eastern Carolina from William Shay to Wendell Murphy North MICHAEL D. THOMPSON The summer of 1995 will live forever in the memories of eastern North Carolinians. On 21...

...Richard W. Judd Backwoods Consumers & Homespun Capitalists: The Rise of a Market Culture in Eastern Canada . By Béatrice Craig . Toronto : University of Toronto Press , 2009 . 349 pp., $75.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-8020-9317-2 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2011 2011...

...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...

...Geoff D. Zylstra Abstract Between 1838 and 1876 New Jersey market gardeners embraced new technologies and methods of cultivation to overcome the obstacles that space and seasonality placed in the way of marketing produce in New York City and Philadelphia. Farmers used technologies like the railroad...

... contends that, instead of the state having complete control of the entire production and procurement process, rural export production in the Pearl River delta demonstrates remarkable diversity and responsiveness to fluctuating overseas market conditions, whose adaptability, however, was significantly...

...Paul B. Moyer Farm, Shop, Landing: The Rise of a Market Society in the Hudson Valley, 1780–1860 . Martin Bruegel . Copyright 2002 Agricultural History Society 2002 726 / Agricultural History "robber baron" interpretation hardly offers a compelling explanation for the rise of interest...

...D. Clayton Brown Cotton’s Renaissance: A Study in Market Innovation . George David Smith and Timothy Curtis Jacobson . Copyright 2002 Agricultural History Society 2002 Book Reviews / 717 actions made them anything but the passive victims of legendary accounts. Thus, on the one...

...Jason McCollom [email protected] The Rise and Fall of United Grain Growers: Cooperatives, Market Regulation, and Free Enterprise . By Paul D. Earl . Winnipeg : University of Manitoba Press , 2019 . 368 pp., $27.95, paperback, ISBN 9780887558443. Copyright ©...

...Yongguang Hu The Chinese Market Economy, 1000–1500 . By William Guanglin Liu . Albany : State University of New York Press , 2015 . 394 pp., $100.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-1-4384-5567-9. © 2016 the Agricultural History Society 2016 Agricultural History Spring The Chinese Market...

.... Interviews have also shown that growers who have chosen to diversify into other niche markets are benefiting from that decision and are also contributing to their region’s economic, environmental, and sociocultural wellbeing. © 2016 Agricultural History Society 2016 Notes 1. Apple and Pear...

...Chris Deutsch Moveable Markets: Food Wholesaling in the Twentieth-Century City . By Helen Tangires . Baltimore : The Johns Hopkins University Press , 2019 . 312 pp., $59.95 , hardback, ISBN 978-1-4214-2747-8. © 2020 Agricultural History Society 2020 Book Reviews 683 criticize...