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...Sara M. Gregg Abstract The small upcountry farms of Southern Appalachia were slowly fading away during the early twentieth century, but pockets of self-sufficient farms remained in places like the northern Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. These farmers, responsive to the constraints...

... © 2009 Agricultural History Society 2009 The Anguish of Displacement: The Politics of Literacy in the Letters of Mountain Families in Shenandoah National Park . Katrina M. Powell . ...

... with a brevity and clarity of language rare to our discipline. Paul Michael Warden Harvard University Inherit the Holy Mountain: Religion and the Rise of American Environmentalism. By Mark Stoll. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. 424 pp., $29.95, paperback, ISBN 978-0-1906-9794-5. Scholars have been...

...Michael Weeks Persistent Progressives: The Rocky Mountain Farmers Union . By John F. Freeman . Boulder : University Press of Colorado , 2016 . 216 pp., $22.99 , hardback, ISBN 978-1-60732-432-4 . © 2017 Agricultural History Society 2017 Book Reviews 603 The book closes...

...Mark E. Frank Across Forest, Steppe, and Mountain: Environment, Identity, and Empire in Qing China’s Borderlands . By David A. Bello . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2016 . 350 pp., $99.99 , hardback, ISBN 978-1-1070-6884-1 . © 2018 Agricultural History Society 2018...

...Thomas G. Andrews Trout Culture: How Fly Fishing Forever Changed the Rocky Mountain West . By Jen Corinne Brown . Seattle : University of Washington Press , 2015 . 248 pp., $35.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-295-99457-4. © 2016 the Agricultural History Society 2016 Agricultural...

...Chad Raymond Mien Relations: Mountain People and State Control in Thailand . Hjorleifur Jonsson . Copyright 2008 Agricultural History Society 2008 Agricultural History Winter Asia Mien Relations:Mountain People and State Control inThailand. By Hjorleifur Jonsson. Ithaca: Cornell...

...Robert T. Hayashi [email protected] Japanese Americans at Heart Mountain: Networks, Power, and Everyday Life . By Saara Kekki . Norman : University of Oklahoma Press , 2022 . 246 pp., $39.95 , hardback, ISBN 9780806190808 . Copyright © 2024 the Agricultural History...

...Melody Miyamoto Rabbit Creek Country: Three Ranching Lives in the Heart of the Mountain West . John Thiem and Deborah Dimon . © 2010 Agricultural History Society 2010 2010 Book Reviews periodto therapideconomicchangecharacterizintghepost-WorldWarII SunbeltT. echnologiesand...

...Sarah T. Phillips Managing the Mountains: Land Use Planning, the New Deal, and the Creation of a Federal Landscape in Appalachia . By Sara M. Gregg . New Haven : Yale University Press , 2010 . 304 pp., $40.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-300-14219-8 . © the Agricultural History Society...

...Donald J. Pisani The Natural West: Environmental History in the Great Plains and Rocky Mountains . Dan Flores . Copyright 2003 Agricultural History Society 2003 636 / Agricultural History Heffilan Taubeneck and his successor, Marion Butler. However, in an argument that echoes Peter...

...H. Tyler Blethen Where There Are Mountains: An Environmental History of the Southern Appalachians . Donald Edward Davis . Copyright 2004 Agricultural History Society 2004 Book Reviews / 247 newspaper investigations; sociological surveys of material conditions; and fi? nally cultural...

...Clifton Crais Highland Sanctuary: Environmental History in Tanzania’s Usambara Mountains . Christopher A. Conte . Copyright 2006 Agricultural History Society 2006 BookReviews / 495 Highland Sanctuary:EnvironmentalHistoryin Tanzania'sUsambaraMountains.Christopher A. Conte. Athens: Ohio...

...Nathan Grau [email protected] War in the Mountains: Peasant Society and Counterinsurgency in Algeria, 1918–1958 . By Neil MacMaster . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2020 . 528 pp., $145.00 , hardcover, ISBN 9780198860211 . Copyright © 2022 the Agricultural History...

...Michael Reidy [email protected] Peak Pursuits: The Emergence of Mountaineering in the Nineteenth Century . By Caroline Schaumann . New Haven, CT : Yale University Press , 2020 . 252 pp., $40.00 , hardcover, ISBN 9780300231946 . Copyright © 2022 the Agricultural History...

...Tom Lee Abstract Over the past three decades, scholars have delved deeply into the post–Civil War industrialization of Appalachia. Although often they have identified agricultural conditions in the mountains as a major factor shaping the emergence of industry in the region, they have paid less...

... of burning have felt little need to provide evidence to support their assertions. Critics of tussock burning claimed that it was a catalyst for mass erosion in the hills and mountains of Canterbury. In recent years, scientists have concluded that this was unlikely as much of the erosion predated European...

... mountainous Lesotho show that the location of demonstrations, the identity of the demonstrators, and their changing priorities and approaches were key factors in determining how these programs unfolded. © 2019 Agricultural History Society 2019 NOTES 1. I use Basutoland and Lesotho...

... of the Interior West," Agricultural History 74 (Spring 2000): 404-18. 6 Eric Walz, "Japanese Settlement in the Intermountain West, 1882-1946," in Guilt by Association: Essays on Japanese Settlement, Internment, and Relocation in the Rocky Mountain West, ed. Mike Mackey (Powell, Wyo.: Western History...

... and existential musing that reflects the twentieth-century concerns of a man observant of the world around him. To that end, the short chapters and accompanying poetry treat various aspects of life in the mountains. Crowe writes evocatively of his interactions with the bees, birds, and mammals that are his...