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...Marjoleine Kars Nature and History in the Potomac Country: From Hunter-Gatherers to the Age of Jefferson . By James D. Rice . Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press , 2009 . 360 pp., $40.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-8018-9032-1 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2011 2011...

...Karl Jacoby The Nature of New York: An Environmental History of the Empire State . By David Stradling . Ithaca : Cornell University Press , 2010 . 296 pp., $29.95 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-8014-4510-1 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2012 2012 2012 Book Reviews to Otto von...

...Clare V. J. Griffiths Rolf Gardiner: Folk, Nature and Culture in Interwar Britain . Edited by Matthew Jefferies and Mike Tyldesley . Burlington, VT : Ashgate , 2011 . 202 pp., $125.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-1-4094-1204-5 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2013 2013 2013 Book...

...Maurits Ertsen Nature and Empire in Ottoman Egypt: An Environmental History . By Alan Mikhail . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2011 . 380 pp., $99.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-1-107-00876-2 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2013 2013 2013 Book Reviews In Part II...

...Stian Rice [email protected] Scorched Earth: Environmental Warfare as a Crime against Humanity and Nature . By Emmanuel Kreike . Princeton : Princeton University Press , 2021 . 538 pp., $39.95 , hardback, ISBN 9780691137421. Copyright © 2022 the Agricultural History...

...,political,and social structures. Shane Hamilton Universitoyf Georgia 129 Copyright 2007 Agricultural History Society 2007 Elemental South: An Anthology of Southern Nature Writing . Dorinda G. Dallmeyer . ...

...Marion Thomas Copyright 2007 Agricultural History Society 2007 Protection des Cultures, Construction de la Nature: Agriculture, Foresterie et Entomologie au Canada, 1884–1959 . Stéphane Castonguay . 2007 Book Reviews in another? Even the title of Saikku's book hints at the problem. He...

...Jordon Kleiman Faith in Nature: Environmentalism as Religious Quest . Thomas R. Dunlap . Copyright 2006 Agricultural History Society 2006 Book Reviews / 115 Until the 1970s the widely held scholarly view of ancient Maya agricultural was one that saw human endeavor as largely...

...Dennis R. Cooley Recoding Nature: Critical Perspectives on Genetic Engineering . Richard Hindmarsh and Geoffrey Lawrence . Copyright 2006 Agricultural History Society 2006 Book Reviews / 121 focuses on the Nantucket Island where the author sought isolation to concen? trate on her...

...Pete Daniel The Fire Ant Wars: Nature, Science, and Public Policy in Twentieth Century America . Joshua Blu Buhs . Copyright 2006 Agricultural History Society 2006 Book Reviews / 375 debate, the author observes that "cattlemen and ranchers in Lee County's rural eastern section wanted...

... rural road improvements. Although these have been well discussed, two significant but unrecognized changes lay at their heart. First, the effect of the good-roads campaigns of the 1890s in convincing farmers to embrace a major intellectual shift: trading the belief that roads were "natural"--local...

...J. R. McNeill The Biology of Civilisation: Understanding Human Culture as a Force in Nature . Stephen Boyden . Copyright 2006 Agricultural History Society 2006 BookReviews / 497 ducersexpandedtheiroperationsacrossthe Southeast,with specialemphasis on the forestsof...

...Paul D. Mitchell The Nature of the Farm: Contracts, Risk, and Organization in Agriculture . Douglas W. Allen and Dean Lueck . Copyright 2004 Agricultural History Society 2004 Book Reviews / 373 Ultimately, scholars will find Creating Abundance wanting for its multitude of sins...

...Graeme Wynn The Nature of Gold: An Environmental History of the Klondike Gold Rush . Kathryn Morse . Copyright 2005 Agricultural History Society 2005 Book Reviews / 243 was greatly affected by farm size; the large-farm community was much worse off than the small-farm community...

...Robert Campbell Paradise Wild: Reimagining American Nature . David Oates . Copyright 2005 Agricultural History Society 2005 386 / Agricultural History the coming of the first tourist, the rise of the first preservationist societies, the first movie to romanticize Amish pacifism...

...Christopher J. Castaneda Conserving Words: How American Nature Writers Shaped the Environmental Movement . Daniel J. Philippon . Copyright 2005 Agricultural History Society 2005 Book Reviews Conserving Words: How American Nature Writers Shaped the Environ? mental Movement. By Daniel J...

...Tina Gianquitto Reading the Roots: American Nature Writing before Walden . Michael P. Branch . Copyright 2005 Agricultural History Society 2005 Book Reviews / 501 Reading the Roots: American Nature Writing before Walden. Edited by Michael R Branch. Athens: University of Georgia Press...

...Ryan H. Edgington Abstract Modern environmental activists unified behind calls for a change in how humans understood their relationships with nature. Yet they approached their concerns through a variety of historical lenses. Countering arguments that suggest environmentalism had its deepest roots...

...Carrie Johns Farming and the Fate of Wild Nature: Essays in Conservation-Based Agriculture . Daniel Imhoff and Jo Ann Baumgarner . Copyright 2007 Agricultural History Society 2007 2009 BookReviews Arrow, Oklahoma, to the rich collections of theWisconsin Historical Society...

...James Taylor Carson Wild by Nature: North American Animals Confront Colonization . By Andrea L. Smalley . Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press , 2017 . 352 pp., $49.95 , hardback, ISBN 978-1-4214-2235-0. © 2019 Agricultural History Society 2019 202 Agricultural History...