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...Robert W. Wilcox Industrial Forests and Mechanical Marvels: Modernization in Nineteenth-Century Brazil . By Teresa Cribelli . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2016 . 254 pp., $99.99 , hardback, ISBN 978-1-1071-0056-5 . © 2017 Agricultural History Society 2017 444...

... is the role and views of agribusiness corporations and local and regional agrarian elites, creating an unbalanced picture of those who largely benefited from GM soybeans expansion. Diana Córdoba University of Victoria Industrial Forests and Mechanical Marvels: Modernization in NineteenthCentury Brazil...

...? tional history often played as a foil to cliometric insights, but I think histo? rians "threw the baby out with the bath water" when they moved away from any effort to quantify. Numbers have a marvelous capacity to summarize in a non-judgmental way?to focus attention on key relationships and tendencies...

...: Zeferino Dominguez Gets Marvelous Results with Dry Farming," St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Feb. 21,1909, reprinted in Dominguez, The Modern Cultivation of Corn, 336 4 Cynthia Hewitt de Alcántara and United Nations Re¬ search Institute for Social Development. Modernizing Mexican Agriculture...

... and commercial historians would do?seems unnecessarily myopic, and to attribute the plague itself to a Malthusian crisis rather than to the unexpected appearance of particularly deadly bacteria seems equally a complication of questionable utility. The book is marvelous in its presentation and critique...

..., and as a hydrologist by profession, Stiller marveled that “water was diverted from the river as much by habit as by immediate need” (xi). He set himself the task in this fourteen-chapter study “to wonder how the valley's water habits came into being” (xii). Copyright © 2022 the Agricultural History Society 2022...

... of the development of one academic discipline from colonial times to World War I, this edited volume by Campbell, Peterson, and Griffith is a marvelously nuanced, contextual account of the cultivation of plant pathological expertise. Relying heavily upon primary literature, it presents the history of an American...

..., musicology, communication, folklore, and many other fields, edited by Janelle Collins, does a marvelous job at explaining the Mississippi Delta. The interdisciplinary nature of the collection is a necessity to approach as complex an area as the Delta, and this volume shines in describing the many ways...

..., and economic factors has conspired to intensify and accelerate the production of livestock species. Chapter Three examines the industrialization of slaughter and processing. Fitzgerald marvels that approximately three hundred livestock animals are slaughtered in the United States every second, yet industrial...

... nature of laundry, herding cattle, husking corn, and tending younger siblings provided little joy. Elsewhere, children admired their teachers, marveled at what they stud ied, celebrated recess, and decried the boys who disrupted winter-term classes. Of special interest is a chapter devoted to Hermann...

... in southern Ontario in the face of growing suburbs and migrating labor seems an obvious conclusion. Bogue's tale is often heartbreaking; the final page of the epilogue is truly saddening. Although a departure from Bogue's more academic work, agricultural historians will gain much from reading this marvelous...

... this trend marvelously. Gordon E. Harvey University of Louisiana at Monroe Agrarian Dreams: The Paradox of Organic Farming in California. By Julie Guthman. Berkley: University of California Press, 2004. 250 pp., $21.95, paperback, ISBN 0-520-24095-2. In Agrarian Dreams: The Paradox of Organic Farming...

.... Dollar Northwestern State University of Louisiana Photographing Alto: Stanford 0-8047-4092-5. Farmworkers in California. By Richard Steven Street. Palo University Press, 2004. 360 pp., $39.95, hardback, ISBN Photographing Farmworkers in California is a marvelously rich, thoughtful piece of scholarship...

..., and museum displays. Bell and Watson s writing remains highly engaging, with occasional humor and several nice turns of phrase, and they again make extensive use of very wellchosen quotations and marvelous illustrations: the book contains one hundred four pictures, forty-one of them in color. chapter one...

... studies, poetry, art, and museum displays. Bell and Watson s writing remains highly engaging, with occasional humor and several nice turns of phrase, and they again make extensive use of very wellchosen quotations and marvelous illustrations: the book contains one hundred four pictures, forty-one of them...

... that Colorado agricultural water rights were as resilient as the kawuneeche. andrews s Coyote Valley is a marvelous example of the intersection not only of agricultural and environmental history but also of public and academic history. The book began as an nPs contract history of the kawuneeche Valley...

... in the nearby Cache La Poudre River. 121 Agricultural History Winter In 1955 he became a board member of the Northern Colorado Water Conservancy District. He found it easy to work with environmental organizations if they endorsed wise use rather than preservation for he was a marvelous facilitator who helped...

... Wormsloe nicely within the history of the Georgia lowcountry. He employs the tools of agroecology, which treats farms as places where varied species, including humans, live and interact within the physical environment, and he supplements the analysis with a marvelous collection of maps and period...

..., a myth of sorts that lives on. William Okie has written a marvelous book that is well-researched with ample images, maps, and tables. The Georgia peach, in culture, horticulture, and myth, is alive and well in the state of Georgia thanks to Okie s book. Would you care for a Georgia peach? Yes, please...

... on the Pan-American Highway in highland Guatemala in June 2008, I marveled at the ingenuity of Maya farmers who maximized their use of marginalized plots of land on steep hillsides. A US embassy official in our party, meanwhile, pointed out broccoli and blackberry harvests destined for export, an enterprise...