...J. L. Anderson Pig . By Brett Mizelle . London : Reaktion Books , 2011 . 224 pp., $19.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-1-86189-805-0 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2012 2012 Agricultural History Fall both hand labor for production and crushing and machinery to prepare...

...Sam White Lesser Beasts: A Snout-to-Tail History of the Humble Pig . By Mark Essig . New York : Basic Books , 2015 . 320 pp., $27.99 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-465-05274-5. © 2016 Agricultural History Society 2016 2016 Book Reviews tally influenced. it also provides a worthy model...

...Sarah Wassberg Johnson Capitalist Pigs: Pigs, Pork, and Power in America . By J. L. Anderson . Morgantown : West Virginia University Press , 2018 . 300 pp., $34.99 , paperback, ISBN 978-1-946684-73-8. © 2019 Agricultural History Society 2019 772 Agricultural History becomes...

... why the land reform failed to deliver the results it promised. Spe? cialists and nonspecialists alike will enjoy this well-crafted account. Alexander S. Dawson Montana State University Hog Ties: Pigs, Manure, and Mortality in American Culture. By Richard P. Horwitz. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998...

...Margiana Petersen-Rockney Abstract For three centuries—from the seventeenth through the early twentieth century—pigs filled a vital niche transforming waste into food as the US countryside grew into the city in spaces like Providence, Rhode Island. During seventeenth-century colonization, pigs...

...Thomas Fleischman Fascist Pigs: Technocratic Organisms and the History of Fascism . By Tiago Saraiva . Cambridge, MA : The MIT Press , 2016 . 344 pp., $40.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-2620-3503-3 . © 2017 Agricultural History Society 2017 578 Agricultural History cific...

...Catarina Passidomo Real Pigs: Shifting Values in the Field of Local Pork . By Brad Weiss . Durham : Duke University Press , 2016 . 312 pp., $24.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-0-8223-6157-2 . © 2017 Agricultural History Society 2017 448 Agricultural History critical for the trek s...

... bogged down in details. Her writing style is a delight to read. This book demonstrates how medieval environmental and agricultural history can be written as a history of ideas and culture with wide appeal. In chapter 4, the focus is on the assemblage of humans and pigs and the social groups that were...

...Dolly Jørgensen Abstract Swine as agricultural products were extremely common in the medieval townscape, but pigs are also notoriously damaging if allowed to run amuck. This article explores how local governments tried to regulate pig rearing as an integrated element in urban space, arguing...

... , cited by the Oxford English Dictionary as the first use of the term “creeps” as “an enclosure in which young animals may feed, with an entrance too small to admit the mother.” [John Cownie], “Feeding Small Pigs,” Prairie Farmer , Dec. 5, 1896 , 6 . Sometimes the fences and the feeders combined...

... Society, 2015 2015 NOTES 1. The author offers special thanks to Judith Steinhoff for helping her appreciate medieval art as a source of historical knowledge and Finn Arne Jørgensen for helping her order her thoughts about it. Dolly Jørgensen , “Pigs and Pollards: Medieval Insights for UK...

... Beasts: A Snout-to-Tail History of the Humble Pig (New York: Basic Books, 2015), 40-41, 48-52, 94-97. 16. Susan Strasser, Waste and Want: A Social History of Trash (New York: Henry Holt and Co., 2000), 28-32; McNeur, Taming Manhattan , 23-30; Zarin, “Searching for Pennies in Piles of Trash,” 214...

... of European domesticated pigs from the Middle Ages and Early Modern period suggest that Old World hogs were lean and mean upon arrival in the New World. The most important caution for readers is Mizelle s assertion that mid-twentieth-century production innovations transformed the lives of pigs for the worse...

... for agricultural historians and anyone investigating pastoral systems. andrea e. Williams Colorado State University Lesser Beasts: A Snout-to-Tail History of the Humble Pig. By Mark essig. new york: Basic Books, 2015. 320 pp., $27.99, hardback, iSBn 978-0-465-05274-5. even as real live pigs have disappeared from...

... the old story of industrial meat production as a story of human innovation and the total conquest of nature. The book illustrates how the hog itself is the center of the process that turns millions of pigs into millions of pounds of meat and a thousand other commodities that find usage in just about...

... of Melbourne Global Pig. By Brett Mizelle. London: Reaktion Books, 2011. 224 pp., $19.95, paperback, ISBN 978-1-86189-805-0. Brett Mizelle, associate professor of history at California State University Long Beach and H-Animal Listserv founder, provides an accessible and copiously illustrated narrative of pigs...

... an excellent contribution to this emerging scholarship, while also restoring the Missouri River to historical memory. Charles Closmann University of North Florida Capitalist Pigs: Pigs, Pork, and Power in America. By J. L. Anderson. Morgantown: West Virginia University Press, 2018. 300 pp., $34.99, paperback...

... the insights of evolutionary science, he traces the biogeographical distribution, genetic composition, and behavioral engagement with humans of three animal families horses, pigs, and dogs through deep time and space, beginning in Eurasia during the Pleistocene Epoch and following chronologically through...

.... It is a study of breeding in relation to traditional and scientific views. Pig breeding in the Netherlands was similar to and yet different from chicken breeding. Pig breeding ended up being a strange blend of pure breeding, crossbreeding, and hybrid breeding. Private companies came into existence in order...

... that followed. Most intriguing of all, Saraiva s eponymous pigs physically embodied the new configuration of the Nazi economy and empire. To meet the twin demands of economic self-sufficiency and Darré s vision for Blood and Soil, Nazi agricultural planners developed a new standard for swine breeding, which...