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...Phillip B. Gonzales Abstract At the end of the Mexican-American War in 1848, the United States annexed what had been the Mexican Department of New Mexico, and as it did, it absorbed millions of acres of agro-pastoral land whose parcels had been under a communal system of ownership by Mexican...

...Suzzane Kelley Copyright 2004 Agricultural History Society 2004 Museum Review Fostering The New Remembrance and Respect: Mexico Farm and Ranch Heritage Museum The land of New Mexico, from the depths of crater Jemez Caldera to the heights of the San Mateo Mountains, has tested generations...

...Jeri L. Reed Abstract The activities of Mexican banker and hacendado Zeferino Dominguez in the early twentieth century raise questions about the assumption that Mexico was merely the beneficiary of modern agricultural science developed in the United States. Dominguez was a banker and large...

...Jesus Perez Routes of Compromise: Building Roads and Shaping the Nation in Mexico, 1917–1952 . By Michael K. Bess . Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press , 2017 . 234 pp., $60.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-8032-9934-4. © 2020 Agricultural History Society 2020 152 Agricultural...

... Arkansas and the New South, Hild s latest offering will appeal to undergraduates and specialists alike with its brevity and straightforward narrative style. John H. Cable Florida State University From the Grounds Up: Building an Export Economy in Southern Mexico. By Casey Marina Lurtz. Stanford: Stanford...

... with twine that farmhands later would gather into shocks to await threshing. The majority of the twine used was made from fiber from agave plants (sisal and henequen) from Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula. The dependency on this Mexican commodity is illustrated by the fact that for the first two decades...

...Mark Becker To See with Two Eyes: Peasant Activism & Indian Autonomy in Chiapas, Mexico . Shannan L. Mattiace . Copyright 2005 Agricultural History Society 2005 Book Reviews To See With Two Eyes: Peasant Activism & Indian Autonomy in Chiapas, Mexico. By Shannan L. Mattiace...

...David Vaught Bailing Wire & Gamuza: The True Story of a Family Ranch Near Ramah, New Mexico, 1905-1986 . Barbara Vogt Mallery . Copyright 2005 Agricultural History Society 2005 124 / Agricultural History of The Pennsylvania Barn for agricultural historians or architectural histori...

...Tomás Martínez Saldaña El Cerrito, New Mexico: Eight Generations in a Spanish Village . Richard L. Nostrand . Copyright 2005 Agricultural History Society 2005 Book Reviews El Cerrito, New Mexico: Eight Generations in a Spanish Village. By Rich? ard L. Nostrand. Norman: University...

...Sean Gouglas Bound in Twine: The History and Ecology of the Henequen-Wheat Complex for Mexico and the American and Canadian Plains, 1880–1950 . Sterling Evans . © 2009 Agricultural History Society 2009 2009 BookReviews a usefulintroductiotnoall thingscitrusA. nd itmayinspirea...

... to concentrate upon projects that were likely to find a rapid uptake. This meant setting aside the needs of peasant farmers to develop high-yielding varieties suited to large commercial farms. NOTES 1 Edwin Wellhausen, "The Agriculture of Mexico," Scientific American 235 (Aug. 1976): 12950; Barbara...

...Aaron Bell Porous Borders: Multiracial Migrations and the Law in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands . By Julian Lim . Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press , 2017 . 320 pp., $32.50 , hardback, ISBN 978-1-4696-3549-1. © 2019 Agricultural History Society 2019 204...

...Carmen Kordick Biography of a Hacienda: Work and Revolution in Rural Mexico . By Elizabeth Terese Newman . Tucson : University of Arizona Press , 2014 . 272 pp., $29.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-0-8165-3073-1 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2015 2015 Agricultural History...

...Susan M. Gauss Hijos del Pueblo: Gender, Family, and Community in Rural Mexico, 1730–1850 . By Deborah E. Kanter . Austin : University of Texas Press , 2009 . 182 pp., $55.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-292-71887-6 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2011 2011 Book Reviews Latin...

...Geraldo L. Cadava Political Ecologies of Cattle Ranching in Northern Mexico: Private Revolutions . By Eric P. Perramond . Tucson : University of Arizona Press , 2010 . 226 pp., $35.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-8165-2721-2 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2011 2011...

...Stephanie Lewthwaite Braceros: Migrant Citizens and Transnational Subjects in the Postwar United States and Mexico . By Deborah Cohen . Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press , 2011 . 360 pp., $39.95 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-8078-3359-9 . © the Agricultural History...

...Jesús F. de la Teja The Spanish Settlement Landscapes of New Mexico, 1598–1680 . By Elinore M. Barrett . Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press , 2012 . 296 pp., $49.95 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-8263-5083-1 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2013 2013 Agricultural...

...Hans Werner Abstract In the 1920s some 3,800 Mennonites who had settled in Manitoba in the 1870s left their farms to migrate to the Bustillos Valley of northern Mexico. While conflict over education was the main stimulus for the move, this paper argues that the migration also offered an opportunity...

...Christopher A. Huff Irwin Klein and the New Settlers: Photographs of Counterculture in New Mexico . Edited by Benjamin Klein . Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press , 2016 . 192 pp., $29.95 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-8032-8510-1 . © 2017 Agricultural History Society 2017 458...

... eclipsed by the rubber-tired tractor. But not all farming histories follow this familiar narrative. Old Colony Mennonites, who had left the Canadian prairies to establish farming colonies in Northern Mexico in the 1920s, sacralized the steel-wheeled tractor as a symbol of tradition at midcentury...