...Mark Finlay New Sources, Organizations Recent Research New Theses, and New in the New on the History Germany: of German Agriculture MARK FINLAY The historiography of German agriculture is experiencing a renaissance. In the postwar era, West German historians produced a valuable corpus of thorough...

...Peter H. Argersinger Populism in the South Revisited: New Interpretations and New Departures . Edited by James M. Beeby . Jackson : University Press of Mississippi , 2012 . 255 pp., $60.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-1-61703-225-7 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2014 2014 2014...

... also overtaken the scholarly discipline of agricultural history. Health and longevity, sustainability and environmentalism have assumed center stage. Whether deliberate or en passant, these new metrics have first supplemented and, in many cases finally supplanted, race, gender, and class as useful...

...Jonathan E. Robins The Cotton Kings: Capitalism and Corruption in Turn-of-the-Century New York and New Orleans . By Bruce Baker and Barbara Hahn . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2015 . 232 pp., $29.95 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-19-021165-3. © 2016 the Agricultural History Society...

...Christopher A. Huff Irwin Klein and the New Settlers: Photographs of Counterculture in New Mexico . Edited by Benjamin Klein . Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press , 2016 . 192 pp., $29.95 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-8032-8510-1 . © 2017 Agricultural History Society 2017 458...

...Ian J. Jesse Abstract Canada experienced a surge of fur farming during the first half of the twentieth century to meet the demands of fashion. The practice was promoted as a relatively easy way in which rural people could earn great income. In the province of New Brunswick, where cash-earning...

...Vincenza Scarpaci Creole Italian: Sicilian Immigrants and the Shaping of New Orleans Food Culture . By Justin Nystrom . Athens : University of Georgia Press , 2018, 224 pp., $26.95 , paperback, IBSN 978-0-82035-3555-5. © 2020 Agricultural History Society 2020 294 Agricultural...

...Scott E. Giltner A New Plantation World: Sporting Estates in the South Carolina Lowcountry, 1900–1940 . By Daniel J. Vivian . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2018 . 358 pp. $59.99 , hardback, ISBN 978-1-1084-1690-0. © 2020 Agricultural History Society 2020 Book...

... Review How Coffee Tied Together Tarrazú, Costa Rica, and New Jersey Steven Topik University of California-Irvine The Saints of Progress: A History of Coffee, Migration, and Costa Rican National Identity. By Carmen Kordick. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2019. 296 pp. $49.95, hardback, ISBN 978...

... America The New Map of Empire: How Britain Imagined America before Independence. By S. Max Edelson. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2017. 448 pp., $35.00, hardback, ISBN 9780-674-97211-7. At first glance, Max Edelson s New Map of Empire is a strange book. The focal point of its argument...

... and rural communities in several New World countries including the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. But this ideal lasted longer and achieved greater hegemony in New Zealand. This article tries to explain the ideal’s greater importance and longevity as resulting from the close fit between...

...William Bauer Oklahoma's Indian New Deal . By Jon Blackman . Norman : University of Oklahoma Press , 2013 . 192 pp., $24.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-0-8061-4351-4 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2015 2015 Agricultural History Fall cording to Pruitt, encountered...

... a rapidly growing urban area in south-central New York State, however, demonstrate that young people conducted a vibrant social life that was marked by heterosociality as well as relative independence from adults. Rural youth participated in urban institutions and partook of commercial amusements without...

...Drew Swanson Burley: Kentucky Tobacco in a New Century . By Ann K. Ferrell . Lexington : University Press of Kentucky , 2013 . 328 pp., $50.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-8131-4233-3 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2015 2015 Agricultural History Winter may not have been all...

... of scholarship that explores slavery at the margins of the plantation complex. Ian Beamish Dalhousie University The Lost History of the New Madrid Earthquakes. By Conevery Bolton Valencius. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013. 460 pp., $35.00, hardback, ISBN 978-0-226-05389-9. This book makes one...

...Todd M. Kerstetter Wyoming Will Be Your New Home: Ranching, Farming, and Homesteading in Wyoming, 1860–1960 . By Michael Cassity . Cheyenne : Wyoming State Historic Preservation Office , 2011 . 354 pp., free, electronic, OCLC 760022141 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2015...

...David Ryden A New World of Labor: The Development of Plantation Slavery in the British Atlantic . By Simon P. Newman . Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press , 2013 . 336 pp., $55.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-8122-4519-6 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2015 2015...

... Land-Grant Colleges: From the New Deal to the Black Farmers' Class Action Lawsuit, 1930–2010,” in Service as Mandate: Land-Grant Universities and the Making of the Modern World, 1920–2015 , ed. Alan I Marcus ( Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press , forthcoming 2016 ); Pete Daniel...

...Catherine McNeur Urban Appetites: Food and Culture in Nineteenth-Century New York . By Cindy R. Lobel . Chicago : University of chicago Press , 2014 . 288 pp., $35.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-226-12875-7. © 2016 Agricultural History Society 2016 Agricultural History Winter cod...

...Daniel Immerwahr Planning Democracy: Agrarian Intellectuals and the Intended New Deal . By Jess Gilbert . New Haven : Yale University Press , 2015 . 368 pp., $45.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-300-20731-6. © 2016 Agricultural History Society 2016 Agricultural History Winter Briefly...