...Teresa S. Moyer [email protected] The People of Rose Hill: Black and White Life on a Maryland Plantation . By Lucy Maddox . Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press , 2021 . 224 pp., $54.95 , hardback, ISBN 9781421440965. Copyright © 2023 the Agricultural History Society...

...J. Elliott Russo Abstract The uses of enslaved labor outside the context of staple crop production become evident through an examination of colonial Somerset County, the southernmost Maryland county on the Chesapeake Bay’s Eastern Shore. By the early eighteenth century, conditions in Somerset...

...James H. Tuten Soil Exhaustion as a Factor in the Agricultural History of Virginia and Maryland, 1606-1860 . Avery Odelle Craven . Copyright 2008 Agricultural History Society 2008 Agricultural History Fall a pulp and paper town on the Chesapeake, serving as an unexpected but effective...

... Economic Research Service, USDA The Oyster Question: Scientists, Watermen, and the Maryland Chesapeake Bay since 1880. By Christine Keiner.Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2009. 344 pp., $44.95, hardback, ISBN 978-0-8203-2698-6. In the late nineteenth century, as the story goes, small-scale production...

...Max Grivno Hirelings: African American Workers and Free Labor in Early Maryland . By Jennifer Hull Dorsey . Ithaca : Cornell University Press , 2011 . 244 pp., $45.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-8014-4778-5 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2012 2012 2012 Book Reviews...

...Russell Pryor Commercial Poultry Production on Maryland's Lower Eastern Shore: The Role of African Americans, 1930s to 1990s . By Solomon Iyobosa Omo-Osagie II . Lanham, Md. : University Press of America , 2012 . 206 pp., $60.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-7618-5876-8 . ©...

... governments. David Tomblin University of Maryland College Park The Size of the Risk: Histories of Multiple Use in the Great Basin. By Leisl Carr Childers. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2015. 320 pp., $34.95, hardback, ISBN 978-0-8061-4927-1. The Size of the Risk easily explains the demands...

... both nuance and sharp detail to the dif- 152 2015 Book Reviews ficult task of writing economic history. This book will go instantly into the canon of civil rights scholarship. Charles J. Holden St. Mary s College of Maryland Growing Resistance: Canadian Farmers and the Politics of Genetically Modified...

... sure of himself. While Food Politics offers a handy primer for instructors, I think students need to know that world food problems and their solutions are less cut-and-dried than Paarlberg suggests. Warren Belasco University of Maryland Baltimore County The Agrarian Vision: Sustainability...

... of Native Americans in the Chesapeake. Given the absence of a comprehensive history of Amerindians in Maryland especially, the book is sure to appeal to a variety of appreciative audiences. Rice brings the world of pre-contact Potomac natives vividly to life. Between 900 and 1500 CE, Potomac basin dwellers...

... Northeastern University Gleanings of Freedom: Free and Slave Labor along the Mason-Dixon Line, 1790 1860. By Max Grivno. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2011. 296 pp., $50.00, hardback, ISBN 978-0-252-03652-1. Antebellum Maryland was middle America, a literal middle ground between the slave South...

... the Geography of Land Ownership and Village Formation in Billerica, Massachusetts, 1660-1890." University of Maryland, 1998. Brazy, Martha Jane. "An American Planter: Slavery, Entrepreneurship, and Identity in the Life of Stephen Duncan, 1787-1867." Duke University, 1998. Burr, Martha. "The American Cowgirl...

... of American Environmentalism (New York: Cambridge Uni-v versity Press, 2001 ), 190 -91, 207-10 M. Gordon Wolman , Problems Posed by Sediment Derived from Construction Activities in Maryland: Report to the Maryland Water Pollution Control Commission (Annapolis: Maryland Water Pollution Control...

... seals, these sources were sufficient for the purposes of this article, but a closer study of this topic requires more archival work. “Maryland State Seal—Great Seal of Maryland,” Maryland At A Glance, http://www.msa.md.gov/msa/mdmanual/01glance/html/symbols/reverse.html (accessed Dec. 20, 2011...

... an archivist at the National Archives. Harold Pinkett was born in Salisbury, Maryland, 7 April 1914. He graduated summa cum laude from Morgan College (now Morgan State Univer? sity) in 1935, and attended Columbia University. He received a master's degree in history from the University of Pennsylvania, 1938...