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...James H. Tuten Penn Center: A History Preserved . By Orville Vernon Burton, with Wilbur Cross . Athens : University of Georgia Press , 2014 . 232 pp., $24.95 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-8203-2602-3. © 2016 the Agricultural History Society 2016 2016 Book Reviews the book is the lack...

...Steven Gimber [email protected] Frederick Watts and the Founding of Penn State . By Roger L. Williams . University Park : Penn State University Press , 2021 . 264 pp., $44.95 , hardback, ISBN 9780271089898 . Copyright © 2022 the Agricultural History Society 2022 Part...

... the embrace of pesticides. Michelle Mart Penn State University Berks Country Comes to Town: The Music Industry and the Transformation of Nashville. By Jeremy Hill. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2015. 224 pp., $26.95, paperback, ISBN 978-1-62534-172-3. Contemporary country music is often...

.... as deluca notes, there are homes that you run from and homes that you run to. as these letters show, her grandmother and grandfather built the latter. Megan Birk University of Texas Pan American Penn Center: A History Preserved. By Orville Vernon Burton, with Wilbur Cross. athens: university of Georgia...

... with Clemson university extension. The Penn Center could have closed its doors at many different crisis moments during its 153 years of existence. distrust and dislike from local whites, waning interest from northeastern donors, and the spread of public schooling and car travel to the once-isolated sea island...

..., Debra Bowers, Josh Duke, Tom Daniels, and Mike McGrath, Rutgers Cooperative Extension and the Farmland Preservation, Saving America's Farms and Farmland: Celebrating Forty Years of Farmland Preservation, A Two-day National conference, May 12–13, 2014, Hershey, Penn. 8. J. Dixon Esseks...

...Corey Campion Where Honeybees Thrive: Stories from the Field . By Heather Swan . University Park : Penn State University Press , 2017 . 176 pp., $29.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-0-271-07741-3 . © 2018 Agricultural History Society 2018 Book Reviews 619 Bibliographic essays...

... of an AmericanNaturalist.By Clark A. Elliott.Bethlehem,Penn.: Lehigh UniversityPress,2007. 294 pp., $59.50,hardback,ISBN 978-0934223-91-1. ThaddeusWilliamHarriswas a reservedt,aciturnNew Englanderwhowas ipsrdeisfefnitcaut tlttohdecayr(euantiloensosofna ehwomorek-sginrothweAntmroepriiccsa!n...

... Copyright 2001 Agricultural History Society 2001 Book Notes A Farm Heritage Album. By Cynthia Bombach Helzel. Greensburg, Penn.: Purlin Press, 2000. 119 pp., $19.95, paperback, ISBN 0-9702380-0-2. Shares the stories and photographs of fifteen Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, farm families...

.... Second, most settlers in eighteenth-century Penn? sylvania appeared to be interested in access to both local market centers and to Philadelphia, an interest reflected in patterns of land acquisition. Third, the number of mills in southeastem Pennsylvania expanded during the sec? ond half of the century...

... scholarsofthefield. JonathanRuss UniversitoyfDelaware ThaddensWilliamHarris(1795-1856):Nature,Science,and Societyin the Life of an AmericanNaturalist.By Clark A. Elliott.Bethlehem,Penn.: Lehigh UniversityPress,2007. 294 pp., $59.50,hardback,ISBN 978-0934223-91-1. ThaddeusWilliamHarriswas a reservedt,aciturnNew...

... will certainlyexpandthe list,but those are the "bigthree"from the earlier period. Q. What/whohavebeenthemajorinfluencesonyourideasandcareer? A. In additionto the leadinglightsof the "newsocialhistory"of the 1970s-scholars like StephenThernstromandHerbertGutman-I owe a lot to my dissertation director at Penn, Charles...

...-1914. Mark Freeman has assembled a selection of thismaterial, notably seeking out rarer documents that are not easily located in the public domain-so no Sturt, Arch, or Penn-shorter tracts, for reasons of space, and regional diversity in so far as this is possible. The five volumes cover different...

... what more must be done to loosen the embrace of pesticides. Michelle Mart Penn State University Berks Country Comes to Town: The Music Industry and the Transformation of Nashville. By Jeremy Hill. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2015. 224 pp., $26.95, paperback, ISBN 978-1-62534-172-3...

... Weaver, M. E. Bradford, Thomas Fleming, and John Shelton Reed have tried to continue part of the agrarian enterprise, even in the years that old agrarians like Tate and Robert Penn Warren had rejected many of their earlier interests. The work is unique in stressing the centrality of Tate and Davidson...

... from the Field. By Heather Swan. University Park: Penn State University Press, 2017. 176 pp., $29.95, paperback, ISBN 978-0-271-07741-3. For more than a decade, journalists and scientists around the world have chronicled the threat to honeybees posed by modern agriculture, pesticides, and disease...

...& theCultivationof Sustain ability. By Michael Mayerfeld Bell., University Park: Penn State Univer sityPress,2004. 296 pp., $22.50,paperback, ISBN 0-271-02387-2. Michael Bell is a rural sociologist who believes that the impact of industrial agriculture on farm families, rural communities, and the environment...

... FarmingforUs All: PracticalAgriculture& theCultivationof Sustain ability. By Michael Mayerfeld Bell., University Park: Penn State Univer sityPress,2004. 296 pp., $22.50,paperback, ISBN 0-271-02387-2. Michael Bell is a rural sociologist who believes that the impact of industrial agriculture on farm families...