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...Tom Okie Modern Food, Moral Food: Self-Control, Science, and the Rise of Modern American Eating in the Early Twentieth Century . By Helen Zoe Veit . Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press , 2013 . 320 pp., $39.95 , hardback, ISBN 978-1-4696-00770-2 . © the Agricultural...

...William D. Rowley Reopening the Frontier: Homesteading in the Modern West . By Brian Q. Cannon . Lawrence : University Press of Kansas , 2009 . 304 pp., $39.95 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-7006-1657-2 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2011 2011 Agricultural History Winter...

...Ellen J. Amster The Politics of Food in Modern Morocco . By Stacy E. Holden . Gainesville : University Press of Florida , 2009 . 325 pp., $69.95 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-8130-3373-0 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2011 2011 2011 Book Reviews headings were entered on blank...

...Dolly Jørgensen Sir Hugh Plat: The Search for Useful Knowledge in Early Modern London . By Malcolm Thick . Totnes, Devon : Prospect Books , 2010 . 432 pp., $60.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-1-903018-65-1 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2011 2011 Agricultural History Summer...

...Yusheng Yao Gourmets in the Land of Famine: The Culture and Politics of Rice in Modern Canton . By Seung-Joon Lee . Stanford : Stanford University Press , 2011 . 320 pp., $55.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-08047-7226-6 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2012 2012 Agricultural...

... previously untranslated Chinese sources, this paper traces the development of beekeeping in China from the second century up until shortly before modern beekeeping methods were introduced to China at the turn of the twentieth century. It discusses the nature of the source material, before exploring...

... conflicted with developing early-modern ideas of private property and with the growing desire on the part of landlords to increase the profitability of their estates, while the court of the Duchy of Lancaster played a positive role in the process by which these late surviving intercommons were partitioned...

...Ryan Edgington Back to the Land: The Enduring Dream of Self-Sufficiency in Modern America . By Dona Brown . Madison : University of Wisconsin Press , 2011 . 296 pp., $24.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-0-299-25074-4 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2012 2012 Agricultural...

...Michael Turner Custom, Improvement and the Landscape in Early Modern Britain . Edited by Richard W. Hoyle . Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate , 2011 . 317 pp., $124.95 , hardback, ISBN 978-1-4094-0052-3 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2013 2013 Agricultural History Winter...

...Susan Rugh Working the Land: The Stories of Ranch and Farm Women in the Modern American West . By Sandra K. Schackel . Lawrence : University Press of Kansas , 2011 . 200 pp., $24.95 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-7006-1780-7 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2013 2013...

...Jason Manthorne King Cotton in Modern America: A Cultural, Political, and Economic History since 1945 . By D. Clayton Brown . Jackson : University Press of Mississippi , 2011 . 440 pp., $55.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-1-60473-798-1 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2013 2013...

...Gerritdina (Ineke) Justitz Copyright 2007 Agricultural History Society 2007 The Peasants of Ottobeuren, 1487–1726: A Rural Society in Early Modern Europe . Govind P. Sreenivasan . Agricultural History Spring ing cane juice, as shown in illustrations by Jan van der Straet and de Bry...

...Jim Mochoruk Improved Earth: Prairie Space as Modern Artefact, 1869–1944 . Rod Bantjes . Copyright 2007 Agricultural History Society 2007 2007 BookReviews easing the state incorporation laws, abolition, internal improvements (most notably canal and railroad construction), immigration...

...Jim Norris The Death of Ramón González: The Modern Agricultural Dilemma . Angus Wright . Copyright 2007 Agricultural History Society 2007 Agricultural History Summer and women who grow and change, make bad as well as good decisions, and create fullor narrow lives from...

...Peter Atkins Book Reviews Global/Comparative Hunger:A Modern History.By JamesVernon. Cambridge:Harvard UniversityPress,2007.384pp29.95,hardback,ISBN 978-0-674-02678-0. I havebeentryintgothinkwhatthetitleofthisbookmighthavebeenbefore themarketindgepartmenotftheHarvardUniversityPressgotto work.My...

...RICHARD C. HOFFMANN; VERENA WINIWARTER Abstract Medieval and early modern records show certain practices were common in traditional European aquaculture. These, combined with advice in coeval treatises on agricultural management, demonstrate how European agroecosystems linked terrestrial...

...Erin McKenna Meat Makes People Powerful: A Global History of the Modern Era . By Wilson J. Warren . Iowa City : University of Iowa Press , 2018 . 264 pp., $75.00 , paperback, ISBN 978-1-6093-8555-2. © 2019 Agricultural History Society 2019 Book Reviews 187 changes wrought...

... University of Oklahoma Cotton: The Fabric that Made the Modern World. By Giorgio Riello. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. 434 pp., $35.00, hardcover, ISBN 978-1-107-00022-3. This graceful global history divides the story of cotton into three periods. Between 1000 and 1500 CE a centrifugal...

...Olivia Saucier Pure and Modern Milk: An Environmental History since 1900 . By Kendra Smith-Howard . New York : Oxford University Press , 2013 . 240 pp., $34.95 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-19-989912-8 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2015 2015 2015 Book Reviews Pure and Modern...

...Ted Ownby Dixie Highway: Road Building and the Making of the Modern South, 1900–1930 . By Tammy Ingram . Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press , 2014 . 272 pp., $29.95 , hardback, ISBN 978-1-4696-1298-0 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2015 2015 Agricultural...