... why the land reform failed to deliver the results it promised. Spe? cialists and nonspecialists alike will enjoy this well-crafted account. Alexander S. Dawson Montana State University Hog Ties: Pigs, Manure, and Mortality in American Culture. By Richard P. Horwitz. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998...

... shaped Thomas Minor’s world-view more generally. Agriculture provided an important context for Minor’s relations with his wife and sons, with nature, and even with a sense of his own mortality. Minor emerges as someone less interested in calculating profit and loss on his farm than in accomplishing...

...Yulonda Eadie Sano Abstract This article explores the relationship between African American lay midwives and the Mississippi State Board of Health. Seen as responsible for high rates of infant and maternal mortality, the midwives were targeted for elimination in the 1920s. However, the shortage...

... Burma, as well as adult morbidity and mortality rates. Individual chapters are concerned with the development of public health in Burma and determining mortality based on analysis of the impact of nutri tion, food security, and the incidence ofmalaria. Perhaps most interesting to gender studies...

... Game," Ancestry Daily News , Mar. 3 , 2004 13 Joseph P. Ferrie , " The Rich and the Dead: Socioeconomic Status and Mortality in the U.S., 1850–60 ," in Health and Labor Force Participation over the Life Cycle: Evidence from the Past , ed. Dora L. Costa (Chicago: University of Chicago...

... movements in Mexico generally, and in particular helps to explain why the land reform failed to deliver the results it promised. Spe? cialists and nonspecialists alike will enjoy this well-crafted account. Alexander S. Dawson Montana State University Hog Ties: Pigs, Manure, and Mortality in American Culture...

... that were forged between cattle, disease, and mortality; middleclass anxieties over adulteration of milk and milk products; and the construction of caste identities of specific subaltern groups around cattle. Switching between narratives of medicine, disease, and public health on the one hand and colonial...

...). This is not a history of the Black death itself, and it does not 613 Agricultural History Fall touch upon its spread or mortality rates nor, with one exception, upon its immediate aftermath. instead the twelve essays take a longer-term view, focusing predominantly on the economy of England in the later Middle Ages...

... it resonates with our COVID pandemic: the poor and disenfranchised suffer the most, have the fewest rights, and oftentimes have the highest mortality. Snowden also narrates how commerce and globalization allowed the rats, fleas, and bacteria to move and establish themselves along trade routes, in port cities...

... on the Northeast's "timber budget," with estimates on volume, growth, harvests, and mortality over time, and on changes in forest land ownership. Again, Irland presents a sweeping historical vision to give perspective on current issues. Until recently, secure access rights and stable harvesting minimized pressure...

... but only by ignoring the continuity of market production. The story of contemporary hog farming is also more complicated than Mizelle allows. Modern techniques were attractive, in part, because they reduced mortality rates and stress on the animals, which maximized the conversion of feed into flesh. Pigs...

... and led to the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade. That trade was essential to the maintenance and growth of these machines because the planters of both islands had adopted a strategy of accepting large losses through excessive mortality from working slaves hard on sugar estates and . . . use...

... fertility rates are quite high, with a total-period fertility rate calculated at 6.55 percent in 2000. This is in 290 2015 Book Reviews conjunction with low mortality and high nutrition. among younger generations, fertility rates have begun to come down due to increasing dependence on a strained lebanese...

..., shelter, clothing, and medical care; nevertheless, the high mortality rate on Allston s plantations, as on most rice plantations, prevented the slave population from growing through natural increase. In contrast to other accounts of the plantation economy, Scarborough portrays Allston as a thoroughgoing...

... History Winter private admonishment to public whipping. Scarborough describes Allston as a relatively conscientious owner who provided his slaves with adequate food, shelter, clothing, and medical care; nevertheless, the high mortality rate on Allston s plantations, as on most rice plantations, prevented...

... that were forged between cattle, disease, and mortality; middleclass anxieties over adulteration of milk and milk products; and the construction of caste identities of specific subaltern groups around cattle. Switching between narratives of medicine, disease, and public health on the one hand and colonial...

... records, post-mortem inven tories, recruitment files,and others) and the less usual photographic sources. The chapters also vary thematically. They address conditions of production and work, social stratification, food and consumption, and mortality and health. The volume is united by an introduction...

... concern for both abolitionists and proslavery planters were the economic and social futures of the colonies. Given the mortality rate as result of the brutalities of plantation labor, planters were most concerned with how they could maintain a labor force without the continual supply of captives from West...

... heavily upon the plantation records of George Washington s Mount Vernon estate in Virginia, the Newton and Seawell Plantations in Barbados, and the Prospect Plantation in Jamaica. Roberts argues that slave mortality, skills, birth rates, gender divisions of labor, and other factors were a function...

... records of George Washington s Mount Vernon estate in Virginia, the Newton and Seawell Plantations in Barbados, and the Prospect Plantation in Jamaica. Roberts argues that slave mortality, skills, birth rates, gender divisions of labor, and other factors were a function of the kind of work that slaves...