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...Mark Harvey A Woman in the Great Outdoors: Adventures in the National Park Service . Melody Webb . Copyright 2005 Agricultural History Society 2005 Book Reviews / 247 They chose Guy Bradley, who had a family to support and a long standing desire to enter law enforcement. Bradley fast...

... © 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 . ...

...Megan Kate Nelson An Agrarian Republic: Farming, Antislavery Politics, and Nature Parks in the Civil War Era . By Adam Wesley Dean . Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press , 2015 . 256 pp., $29.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-1-4696-1991-0. © 2016 Agricultural History Society...

...Matthew P. Johnson One additional strength that scholars will appreciate is Freitas's effort to situate the story of these two adjacent national parks within its regional and global context. He does this best when discussing the global trend toward depopulated national parks in the 1960s...

...Colin Fisher Landscapes of Exclusion: State Parks and Jim Crow in the American South . By William E. O’Brien . Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press , 2015 . 208 pp., $39.95 , hardback, ISBN 978-1-62534-155-6 . © 2016 Agricultural History Society 2016 2016 Book Reviews...

... a promising methodological structure within which to contribute to the burgeoning field of Atlantic history. Cane West National Park Service Unravelled Dreams: Silk and the Atlantic World, 1500 1840. By Ben Marsh. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. 500 pp., $39.99, hardback, ISBN 9781108418287...

... a comprehensive narrative of the Native history of California by forgoing the traditional colonial pomp and re-centering the perseverance of Indigenous people who remain active on the land that is California. Blanca Drapeau Interpretive Ranger, San Dieguito River Park Taking the Land to Make the City: A Bicoastal...

... governments. David Tomblin University of Maryland College Park The Size of the Risk: Histories of Multiple Use in the Great Basin. By Leisl Carr Childers. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2015. 320 pp., $34.95, hardback, ISBN 978-0-8061-4927-1. The Size of the Risk easily explains the demands...

... nature preservation through a case study of the Point Reyes National Seashore in California. She chronicles the origins of this National Park Service facility as a somewhat artificially constructed park assembled from privately owned properties, as opposed to the early national parks that were amassed...

... Agricultural History Summer equation was black activism. In 1948 the NAACP Legal Defense Fund moved beyond demanding equalization (truly equal if separate facilities) to a wholesale legal assault on segregation, including in public parks. Officials in some southern states responded to NAACP suits by creating...

... projects dedicated to retaining and creating gardens as the city experienced a growth spurt comparable to other industrial centers. Cialdella describes the result as “a landscape in a perpetual state of ruin and repair” (13). Motor City Green makes clear that both nature parks designed for recreation...

.... Copyright 2004 Agricultural History Society 2004 Notes 1 Mandel Sherman and Thomas R. Henry, Hollow Folk (New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, Co., 1933 ), 41 ^4 Miriam Sizer, Survey of Mountain Communities, 1932, Box 442, Entry 7, RG 79, NARA, College Park, Md 2 Sherman and Henry...

... of freedom but also by the dogged survival of forms of coercion and violence, racial hierarchy, and capitalist hegemony, as well as political, social, and economic inequality. Carole Emberton SUNY Buffalo Landscapes of Exclusion: State Parks and Jim Crow in the American South. By William E. O Brien. Amherst...

... threatened state. Gordon E. Harvey University of Louisiana at Monroe A Woman in the Great Outdoors: Adventures in the National Park Service. By Melody Webb. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2003. 288 pp, $39.95, hardback, ISBN 0-8263-3175-0. Among the many historical treatments of America's...