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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...

...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...

... century. At the Agricultural Institute, which became the first agronomy university college, professor Manuel Horacio Concha taught “Injeniatura Rural” (an older Spanish form for its English-language modern equivalent, agricultural engineering,) beginning in 1874, using his own textbook, Motores i...

...Steve Craig Abstract Radio was one of several technologies that early twentieth-century reformers promoted as a means of modernizing and improving rural American life. Although the new medium was introduced in the 1920s, it was during the Depression decade of the 1930s that most rural families...

...Robert W. Wilcox Abstract Accompanying the expansion of modern beef production in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries were technologies and methods that proponents assumed were applicable to all ecosystems. Successes in Europe, the United States, and Argentina convinced ranchers, investors...

...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...

...) Modernizing a Slave Economy: The Economic Vision of the Confeder ateNation. By JohnMajewski. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009.256 pp., $39.95, hardback, ISBN 978-0-8078-3251-6. Nearly fortyyears ago, Emory Thomas, in his path-breaking study of The Confederacy as a Revolutionary Experience...

...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...

... along with a broad uptake of scientific methods and new agricultural technologies. We argue that although Australian agriculture was “born modern,” its modernity was ambiguous, as sitting beside its conventionally modern attributes were practices such as the harvesting, by farmers, of wild plants...

... focusing on a single case study that pitted a local community against the SAFER, this article demonstrates how the French state was able to engage farmers in a brutal war of attrition while simultaneously refusing to take full responsibility for the social consequences of its modernization mandate...

... och Kultur/LTs förlag , 2001 ); Iréne A. Flygare and Maths Isacson , Jordbruket i välfärdssamhället, 1945–2000 , vol. 5 , Det svenska jordbrukets historia ( Stockholm : Natur och Kultur/LTs förlag , 2003 ), synthesized in English as “The Tension between Modernity and Reality, 1945...

... 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...

...Yan Gao The Yellow River: The Problem of Water in Modern China . By David A. Pietz . Cambridge : Harvard University Press , 2015 . 384 pp., $35.95 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-674-05824-8. © 2016 Agricultural History Society 2016 Agricultural History Winter on artificial...

...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...

...Melissa Walker A New Heartland: Women, Modernity, and the Agrarian Ideal in America . By Janet Galligani Casey . New York : Oxford University Press , 2009 . 264 pp., $65.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-19-533895-9 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2011 2011 Agricultural History...

...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...