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... sources. Brigitte Leucht University of Oxford North America Every Home a Distillery: Alcohol, Gender, and Technology in the Colonial Chesapeake. By Sarah Hand Meacham. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009. 208 pp., $48.00, hardback, ISBN 978-0-8018-9312-4. It is well known that early Americans...

... would carry more weight had the archival sources relating to the negotiations on the Treaty of Rome been explored. In the author s defense it has to be added that surprisingly there is still no account of the negotiations based on multilateral archival sources. Brigitte Leucht University of Oxford North...

..., fits into broader patterns of leisure and sociability already in place. Thus for centuries tobacco became another social lubricant for building relationships used by all classes in China (even foreigners). Karl Gerth Merton College Oxford University Australia/New Zealand Global Industry, Local...

... useful to those interested in Saint-Domingue, but also in the plantation societies of the wider Caribbean. Dexnell Peters Exeter College, University of Oxford Africa Farming and Famine: Landscape Vulnerability in Northeast Ethiopia, 1889 1991. By Donald E. Crummey. Edited by James C. McCann. Madison...

..., an Introduction," in The Oxford History of the British Empire, Volume I, The Origins of Empire: British Overseas Enterprise to the Close of the Seventeenth Century, ed. Nicholas Canny (New York: Oxford University Press, 2001), 3 Carla Pestana, The English Atlantic in an Age of Revolution, 1640-1661 (Cambridge...

...Brent D. Shaw The Roman Agricultural Economy: Organization, Investment, and Production . Edited by Alan Bowman and Andrew Wilson . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2013 . 352 pp., $150.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-19-966572-3 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2015 2015...

...Constance Hoffman Berman Manors and Markets: Economy and Society in the Low Countries, 300–1600 . By Bas van Bavel . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2016 . 512 pp., $40.00 , paperback, ISBN 978-0-1987-8375-6 . © 2017 Agricultural History Society 2017 Book Reviews 581...

...Adam W. Ebert The Quest for the Perfect Hive: A History of Innovation in Bee Culture . By Gene Kritsky . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2010 . 216 pp., $24.95 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-19-538544-1 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2011 2011 Agricultural History Spring...

... Press, 1996), 75-78. 10. Arnold, “Opening the Great Bush,” 375. 11. Peter Holland, Kevin O’Connor, and Alex Wearing, “Remaking the Grasslands of the Open Country,” in Environmental Histories of New Zealand , eds. Eric Pawson and Tom Brooking (Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 2002), 69-83...

...Adam Ebert Agricultural History use of qualitative primary sources along with quantitative analysis. Alaine Hutson Huston-Tillotson University The Tears of Re: Beekeeping in Ancient Egypt. By Gene Kritsky. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. 160 pp., $29.95, hardback, ISBN 978-0119-936138-0...

...Jane Whittle A Country Merchant, 1495–1520: Trading and Farming at the End of the Middle Ages . By Christopher Dyer . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2012 . 272 pp., $125.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-19-921424-2 . © the Agricultural History society, 2014 2014 Agricultural...

... the Second World War. By Alan F. Wilt. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. 262 pp., $65.00, hardback, ISBN 0-19-820871-5. Alan F. Wilt, Emeritus Professor of History at Iowa State University, has writ? ten a concise and balanced account of a pre-war British success before their society, economy...

...Susan Levine 170 Agricultural History The Political History of American Food Aid: An Uneasy Benevolence. By Barry Riley. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. 592 pp., $49.49, hardback, ISBN 978-0-1902-2887-3. This book is at once comprehensive and at the same time strikingly narrow in scope...

...Venus Bivar Rural Inventions: The French Countryside after 1945 . By Sarah Farmer . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2020 . 200 pp., $45.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-1900-7907-9. © 2020 Agricultural History Society 2020 Book Reviews 685 Rural Inventions: The French Countryside...

...Francisco Bonilla Ecology and Power in the Age of Empire: Europe and the Transformation of the Tropical World . By Corey Ross . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2017 . 512 pp., $60.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-1995-9041-4. © 2019 Agricultural History Society 2019 186...

...Jenny Leigh Smith The Plough that Broke the Steppes: Agriculture and Environment on Russia's Grasslands, 1700–1914 . By David Moon . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2013 . 344 pp., £69.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-955643-4 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2015 2015 2015...

...Gilson Waldkoenig Baptized with the Soil: Christian Agrarians and the Crusade for Rural America . By Kevin M. Lowe . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2015 . 232 pp., $74.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-19-024945-8. © 2016 Agricultural History Society 2016 2016 Book Reviews...

...Matthew Baron Shutzer Land and Forest Governance in Swat: Transition from Tribal System to State to Pakistan . By Sultan-i-Rome . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2016 . 613 pp., $40.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-19-906690-2 . © 2018 Agricultural History Society 2018 Book...

...Sue Harrington 2016 Book Reviews Anglo-Saxon Farms and Farming. by debby banham and rosamund Faith. oxford: oxford university Press, 2015. 353 pp., $110.00, hardback, iSbn 978-0-19-920794-7. This volume offers an excellent, in-depth exposition of the themes and issues surrounding the farming...