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...Andrea E. Duffy Abstract This article explores human responses to the climatic conditions of the late Little Ice Age (1850–1880s) in the Mediterranean world. Around the globe, the nineteenth century heralded the retreat of the Little Ice Age (LIA) and the arrival of the Anthropocene. Although...

...Jackson R. Perry Nomad’s Land: Pastoralism and French Environmental Policy in the Nineteenth-Century Mediterranean World . By Andrea E. Duffy . Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press , 2019 . 336 pp., $55.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-8032-9097-6. © 2020 Agricultural History Society...

...Michael R. Hall Gardens of New Spain: How Mediterranean Plants and Foods Changed America . William W. Dunmire . Copyright 2006 Agricultural History Society 2006 Book Reviews / 133 period, 1600-1868), the reforms of the Meiji era (1868-1912), village life dur? ing the Pacific War (1937...

...Philip Thibodeau Back to the Garden: Nature and the Mediterranean World from Prehistory to the Present . By James H. S. McGregor . New Haven : Yale University Press , 2015 . 384 pp., $38.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-300-19746-4. © 2016 the Agricultural History Society 2016 2016...

...Clara Bosak-Schroeder [email protected] The Tropical Turn: Agricultural Innovation in the Ancient Middle East and the Mediterranean . By Sureshkumar Muthukumaran . Oakland : University of California Press , 2023 . 320 pp., $34.95 , paperback, ISBN 9780520390843...

...SAMUEL GARRIDO Abstract In the early twentieth century California became a big exporter of some agricultural products that, until then, had only been grown on a large scale in the Mediterranean basin. As a result, exports of those products diminished or stagnated in Mediterranean countries...

... to other forms of sharecropping across the Mediterranean. This paper argues the colonate was not a rigid system that directly reflected social and economic hierarchies, as it has often been described, but that both landowners and tenants entered into the agreement with the ability to make rational economic...

... Historiography .” Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change 3 , no. 3 (2012): 233 – 49 . Cook Benjamin I. , Anchukaitis Kevin J. , Touchan Ramzi , Meko David M. , and Cook Edward R. “ Spatiotemporal Drought Variability in the Mediterranean over the Last 900 Years...

.... But maybe that is where we end up when we finally take stuff seriously. 1. Braudel, Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World , 21 . 2. Bennett, Vibrant Matter , x. 3. Hughes, “Technological Momentum,” 113 . 4. Braudel, Structures of Everyday Life , 73 . 5...

... and French Environmental Policy in the Nineteenth-Century Mediterranean World. By Andrea E. Duffy. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2019. 336 pp., $55.00, hardback, ISBN 978-0-8032-90976. French foresters working in the nineteenth-century Mediterranean usually described pastoralists as poor...

... is also closely linked to globalization i.e., to the possibility of bringing these oils to nonproducing areas as well as areas that did not traditionally consume vegetable oils. For example, olive oil is a Mediterranean product, and yet its consumption has grown beyond this region since the late...

... of the eastern Mediterranean countryside from the third to the seventh century a.d. Combining numismatic, papyrological, literary, and archaeological material with an im? pressive command of comparative evidence, the author presents a compelling vision of late antique agriculture that differs dramatically from...

... University of New Mexico Back to the Garden: Nature and the Mediterranean World from Prehistory to the Present. By James H. s. McGregor. new Haven: yale university Press, 2015. 384 pp., $38.00, hardback, isBn 978-0-300-19746-4. James McGregor has written a cultural history of the Mediterranean which serves...

..., hardback, ISBN 978-0-19-956528-3. Michael Decker's monograph examines late antique agriculture in the Roman diocese of Oriens, an administrative unit stretching along the Mediterranean coast from the Sinai Peninsula to southernAnatolia, extend ing toMesopotamia in theEast and embracing Cyprus to theWest...

... Production and Trade in the Late Antique East. By Michael Decker. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. 368 pp., $135.00, hardback, ISBN 978-0-19-956528-3. Michael Decker's monograph examines late antique agriculture in the Roman diocese of Oriens, an administrative unit stretching along the Mediterranean...

... Carolina Press, 2004. 368 pp., $22.50, paperback, ISBN 0-8078-5538-3. This book is a major contribution to the discussion of the transfer of the sugar industry from the Mediterranean via the Atlantic islands to the Caribbean and the tropical coastlands of Brazil. The contributors, all experts...

... of Mediterranean pastoralism in the modern era. She ably introduces the generalist to the regional history of French forest administration. For scholars of the modern Mediterranean, Nomad s Land will serve as a culmination of recent developments in several subfields of environmental history, offering them...

..., and additionallya, scatteredsettlementpatternprevailedand mostof the ruralpopulationlived in verysmall villages.7 79 AgriculturalHistory Winter Table 1. DifferenTtypesof Rural Societyand Regional Disparitiesin Industrializatiocnirca1950 A B CD E F North Castile-Leon EbroValley Mediterranean Southernplateau...

.... Remnant stands of oak that are often today key markers of Napa were reliant on underground water sources that created opportunities for native species to thrive in a Mediterranean climate with a distinct dry season. That hydrology rests on a specific layout of alluvial fans and the resultant topography...

... land today. Remnant stands of oak that are often today key markers of Napa were reliant on underground water sources that created opportunities for native species to thrive in a Mediterranean climate with a distinct dry season. That hydrology rests on a specific layout of alluvial fans...