...Betsy Mendelsohn The Great Gypsy Moth War: A History of the First Campaign in Massachusetts to Eradicate the Gypsy Moth, 1890–1901 . Robert J. Spear . Copyright 2007 Agricultural History Society 2007 Agricultural History Spring the most important ways that indigenous people crafted...

.... An incredibly violent and expensive utopian imperialist project that ends in failure is hardly a relic of the sixteenth century. John M. Collins Eastern Washington University Entangled Lives: Labor, Livelihood, and Landscapes of Change in Rural Massachusetts. By Marla R. Miller. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins...

...Gloria Main © 2009 Agricultural History Society 2009 Building the Bay Colony: Local Economy and Culture in Early Massachusetts . James E. Mc Williams . AgriculturHalistory Fall ibilityof his goals.The local environmenctould not supportlandedindependencewithoutthe embraceof...

...Victor W. Geraci Yankee Moderns: Folk Regional Identity in the Sawmill Valley of Western Massachusetts, 1890–1920 . Michael Hoberman . Copyright 2001 Agricultural History Society 2001 522 / Agricultural History Hess. In 1893, the most successful, Sears, Roebuck and Company, entered...

...Nathan M. Sorber Abstract This article explores the social origins and mobility patterns of the first student cohorts at the land-grant colleges in Maine, Massachusetts, and New York. The author finds that the scientific curricula, advanced academic standards, and tuition costs at the early land...

... including some from the Pacific Coast states and Massachusetts and has in excess of 220,000 person-observations. The paper discusses a number of problems and complications associated with the creation of this retrospective panel database. It also shows how these data may be linked to other computer...

... between urban and rural districts. Imperial Creatures thus usefully both reflects and decenters a story or set of stories that has most often been told from an Atlantic viewpoint. Harriet Ritvo Massachusetts Institute of Technology ...

... of historical context, connecting neither to larger, more nuanced points. despite these issues, An Agrarian Republic makes some important arguments about agrarian rhetoric during the civil War era and the role of the far West in shaping wartime political debates. Megan Kate nelson Lincoln, Massachusetts 134 ...

... University of Massachusetts, Amherst Negotiating Rural Land Ownership in Southwest China: State, Village, Family. By Yi Wu. Honolulu: University of Hawai i Press, 2016. 302 pp., $65.00, hardback, ISBN 978-0-8248-4677-1. This rich ethnographic study by Yi Wu explores the social practice of land ownership...

... that addresses and historicizes all of the major debates around food in a way that will be useful to both historians of agriculture and students of food. Steve Striffler University of Massachusetts, Boston The Big Marsh: The Story of a Lost Landscape. By Cheri Register. St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society...

... Centuries of Farming in New England (Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 1976), 13, 27. 5 William Wood, New England’s Prospect, ed. Alden T. Vaughan (1635; repr., Amtierst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1977), 56 Thomas Morton, New English Canaan, or New Canaan Containing an Abstract...

..., as this reviewer sees it, is will anyone really listen to her advice? James A. Vlasich Southern Utah University The Great Gypsy Moth War: A History of the First Campaign in Massachusetts to Eradicate the Gypsy Moth, 1890-1901. By Robert J. Spear. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2005. 336 pp., $34.95...

... Merchant, Ecological Revolutions: Nature, Gender, and Science in New England (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1989). Daniel Vickers, Farmers & Fishermen: Two Centuries of Work in Essex County, Massachusetts, 1630-1850 (Chapel Hill: Omohundro Institute of Early American History...

... project that ends in failure is hardly a relic of the sixteenth century. John M. Collins Eastern Washington University Entangled Lives: Labor, Livelihood, and Landscapes of Change in Rural Massachusetts. By Marla R. Miller. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019. 384 pp. $64.95, hardback...

... History Fall basis. The failure of pattern farms to gain traction prior to the Civil War stemmed in part from ordinary farmers rejection of the scientific authority of agricultural reformers. as an example, the editor of the Massachusetts Ploughman articulated a rival form of agricultural science...

...Darren E. Grem © 2017 Agricultural History Society 2017 Country Comes to Town: The Music Industry and the Transformation of Nashville . By Jeremy Hill . Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press , 2015 . 224 pp., $26.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-1-62534-172-3 . Book Reviews 283...

...William Major Cultivating Environmental Justice: A Literary History of U.S. Garden Writing . By Robert S. Emmett . Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press , 2016 . 244 pp., $25.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-1-62534-205-8 . © 2017 Agricultural History Society 2017 270...

..., hardback, ISBN 1-57233-236-0. and Order in the New Republic. By of Tennessee Press, 2003.188 pp., This is a small book about a small agricultural community in Massachusetts between 1790 and 1840. But it is also a book about large themes?the political upheaval after the American Revolution, the economic...

...Colin Fisher Landscapes of Exclusion: State Parks and Jim Crow in the American South . By William E. O’Brien . Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press , 2015 . 208 pp., $39.95 , hardback, ISBN 978-1-62534-155-6 . © 2016 Agricultural History Society 2016 2016 Book Reviews...