...Linda Heidenreich Grounds for Dreaming: Mexican Americans, Mexican Immigrants, and the California Farmworker Movement . By Lori A. Flores . New Haven : Yale University Press , 2015 . 304 pp., $45.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-300-19696-2 . © 2016 Agricultural History Society 2016...

...Timothy Paul Bowman Of Forests and Fields: Mexican Labor in the Pacific Northwest . By Mario Jimenez Sifuentez . New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press , 2016 . 264 pp., $27.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-0-8135-7689-3 . © 2017 Agricultural History Society 2017 Book Reviews 275...

...Stephanie Lewthwaite Abstract In Southern California, regional and national myths of agrarian life as pastoral became entwined with paternalistic policy and racialized visions of the Mexican laborer. Re-worked in the context of the New Deal and increasing strike activity across California after...

.... The Mexican Land and Colonization Company surveyed many of the lands that were considered idle (baldíos), or national property, mapping and selling them as well as providing what many buyers coveted: secure titles of purchase that would protect the interests of export agriculturalists. Perhaps the book...

...Susan Diggle Beloved Land: An Oral History of Mexican Americans in Southern Arizona . Patricia Preciado Martin . Copyright 2006 Agricultural History Society 2006 Book Reviews / 123 used as evidence. As a result, although the extremist position is crystal clear, the nai've reader gets...

...David Frye A Nation of Villages: Riot and Rebellion in the Mexican Huasteca, 1750-1850 . Michael T. Ducey . Copyright 2006 Agricultural History Society 2006 BookReviews / 491 ranchersswitchedfromthe open rangeto smaller,diversifiedoperations,they found themselves without cultural...

...Stephanie Lewthwaite Making Lemonade out of Lemons: Mexican American Labor and Leisure in a California Town, 1889-1960 . José M. Alamillo . Copyright 2008 Agricultural History Society 2008 Agricultural History Fall While this volume has much strength, there are a few discussions...

...Richard M. Chapman Corridors of Migration: The Odyssey of Mexican Laborers, 1600–1933 . Rodolfo F. Acuña . © 2009 Agricultural History Society 2009 2009 Book Reviews churchservicea,ndofitscentralroleinsocializationand formationofidentityamongAmishyoungpeople. In summaryS...

..., for example, ably describes the state's eco? nomic and social connection to that institution and places Arkansas' story in the historiographical mainstream. This book is a solid contribution to Arkansas studies. Jeannie M. Whayne University of Arkansas Mexican Workers and the State: From the Porfiriato...

...April Merleaux North for the Harvest: Mexican Workers, Growers, and the Sugar Beet Industry . By Jim Norris . St. Paul : Minnesota Historical Society Press , 2009 . 216 pp., $22.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-0-87351-631-1 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2011 2011 2011 Book...

...Jim Norris © the Agricultural History Society, 2011 2011 Claiming Rights and Righting Wrongs in Texas: Mexican Workers and Job Politics during World War II . By Emilio Zamora . College Station : Texas A&M University Press , 2009 . 336 pp., $60.00 , hardback, ISBN 987-1-60344...

...Nicole Mottier The Struggle for Maize: Campesinos, Workers, and Transgenic Corn in the Mexican Countryside . By Elizabeth Fitting . Durham : Duke University Press , 2011 . 320 pp., $23.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-0-8223-4956-3 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2012 2012 Book...

... of Mexican Migration and Repatriation during the Great Depression. By Fernando Saúl Alanís Enciso. Translated by Russ Davidson. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2017. 272 pp., $29.95, paperback, ISBN 978-1-4696-3426-5. They Should Stay There introduces us to the vital research of Mexican...

...William E. Lass Barrios Norteños: St. Paul and Midwestern Mexican Communities in the Twentieth Century . Dioncio Nodín Valdés . Copyright 2001 Agricultural History Society 2001 Book Reviews / 361 worshippers' eyes on each other and on the minister. Michael Ann Williams and Larry...

...Jim Norris For God and Revolution: Priest, Peasant, and Agrarian Socialism in the Mexican Huasteca . By Mark Saad Saka . Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press , 2013 . 208 pp., $50.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-8263-5338-2 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2015 2015...

...Marc Simon Rodriguez From South Texas to the Nation: The Exploitation of Mexican Labor in the Twentieth Century . By John Weber . Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press , 2015 . 346 pp., $34.95 , hardback, ISBN 978-1-4696-2523-2 . © 2017 Agricultural History Society...

...Irasema Coronado The Politics of Dependency: U.S. Reliance on Mexican Oil and Farm Labor . By Martha Menchaca . Austin : University of Texas Press , 2016 . 256 pp., $75.00 , hardcover, ISBN 978-1-4773-0940-7 . © 2017 Agricultural History Society 2017 590 Agricultural History...

...Helen Anne Curry Agrarian Crossings: Reformers and the Remaking of the U.S. and Mexican Countryside . By Tore C. Olsson . Princeton : Princeton University Press , 2017 . 296 pp., $35.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-691-16520-2 . © 2018 Agricultural History Society 2018 Book Reviews...

...Lily Anne Yumi Tamai Copyright © 2024 the Agricultural History Society 2024 Yu Tokunaga's book, Transborder Los Angeles: An Unknown Transpacific History of Japanese-Mexican Relations , is a tremendous addition to the historiography of transnational Japanese American history and interethnic...