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...,1500-1900.Edited by James Gerber and Lei Guang. Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2006. 424 pp., $144.95, hardback, ISBN 0-7546-3978-9. This impressive anthology is the thirteenth volume of a series, The Pacific World: Lands, Peoples and History of the Pacific, 1500-1900, under the general...

... and the Opening of the Pacific World: A Global Ecological History. By Gregory T. Cushman. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. 416 pp., $99.00, hardback, ISBN 978-1-107-00413-9. At its root, writes Gregory Cushman, this book is about interconnections (xiv). I can practically hear readers chime...

...Jared Farmer The Tanoak Tree: An Environmental History of a Pacific Coast Hardwood . By Frederica Bowcutt . Seattle : University of Washington Press , 2015 . 240 pp., $35.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-295-99464-2. © 2016 Agricultural History Society 2016 2016 Book Reviews stories...

...Kevin C. Brown Empire of Timber: Labor Unions and the Pacific Northwest Forests . By Erik Loomis . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2016 . 248 pp., $103.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-1-107-12549-0 . © 2017 Agricultural History Society 2017 460 Agricultural History...

...Timothy Paul Bowman Of Forests and Fields: Mexican Labor in the Pacific Northwest . By Mario Jimenez Sifuentez . New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press , 2016 . 264 pp., $27.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-0-8135-7689-3 . © 2017 Agricultural History Society 2017 Book Reviews 275...

...Alexander C. McGregor; James F. Shepherd Fertilization Wheat-Producing Practices in Pacific Areas Northwest ALEXANDER C. McGREGOR JAMES F. SHEPHERD The inland Pacific Northwest's steeply sloped prairies have long been renowned for their exceptional fertility and wheat yields. Yet, the widespread...

...Matthew Klingle Seeking Refuge: Birds and Landscapes of the Pacific Flyway . By Robert M. Wilson . Seattle : University of Washington Press , 2010 . 320 pp., $35.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-295-99002-6 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2011 2011 Agricultural History Fall...

...Jason McGraw [email protected] Freedom's Captives: Slavery and Gradual Emancipation on the Colombian Black Pacific . By Yesenia Barragan . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2021 . 344 pp., $99.00 , hardcover, ISBN 9781108832328 . Copyright © 2022...

...Craig Morris; David Bolingbroke Abstract This article deepens our understanding of Cold War–era agricultural history by examining the relationship between Pacific Northwest soft white wheat and Japanese importers and consumers. Recent historiography of wheat during the Cold War has focused...

...Andrea Radke-Moss [email protected] Imperial Zions: Religion, Race, and Family in the American West and the Pacific . By Amanda Hendrix-Komoto . Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press , 2022 . 282 pp. $99.00 , hardback, ISBN 9781496214607 . Copyright © 2025 The Agricultural...

... Gerhard University of the Pacific Global Empires of Food: Feast, Famine, and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations. By Evan D. G. Fraser and Andrew Rimas. New York: Free Press, 2010. 320 pp., $27.00, hardback, ISBN 978-1-4391-0189-6. Evan Fraser and Andrew Rimas explore agricultural history at several levels...

... mistakes in administering the 30 projects it created. A second phase of the bureau’s life began in the 1930s, with the "high dam era." From 1930 into the 1950s, the bureau’s mission became inconsistent as it strived to serve a new constituency, city dwellers and industries on the Pacific Coast, at the same...

...Peter A. Russell Abstract The absence of dry farming techniques is the key element that many Canadian scholars use to explain the decade of delay in the agricultural development of the prairie region after the completion of the Canadian Pacific Railway in 1885. They have assumed that American...

...John Henris Abstract The unique nature of commercial apple culture in the Spearfish Valley of the Black Hills of western South Dakota between 1882 and 1914 adds regional depth to the larger historical narratives of irrigated industrial orchard production in the Intermountain West and Pacific Coast...

... including some from the Pacific Coast states and Massachusetts and has in excess of 220,000 person-observations. The paper discusses a number of problems and complications associated with the creation of this retrospective panel database. It also shows how these data may be linked to other computer...

... in the Pacific Ocean. When the Port Jackson settlement is viewed from this maritime perspective, it is apparent that agriculture was an imperial imperative of the Pitt administration. The design and early function of the settlement as a port of shelter and refreshment ensured that, despite initial despondency...

... wealth. Washington’s pre-war oil embargo severely crippled military and civilian transport services throughout the war, and Japan’s conversion of cane sugar into fuel alcohol and butane for aviation fuel failed to generate successful outcomes. Also, as the Pacific War eliminated cotton imports from...

... changed so quickly. By setting the law in the context of state building and wartime pacification, it shows how administrators like William Howard Taft believed landownership would turn unruly agrarians into loyal subjects. The end of the war, coupled with changing political circumstances...

... from the constraints of the southern states. The legislation—the Morrill Land Grant Act, establishing federally supported higher education; the Homestead Act, allowing citizens to claim federal land in the American West; and the Pacific Railway Act, allotting federal land to private companies...

...Amanda Van Lanen Abstract Washington's orchard output grew dramatically after the arrival of the Great Northern and Northern Pacific railways in 1885 and 1893, respectively. The railroads and local real estate boosters promoted central Washington's desert as an orchard paradise, “where dollars grow...