...Daegan Miller Beyond the Fruited Plain: Food and Agriculture in US Literature, 1850–1905 . By Kathryn Cornell Dolan . Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press , 2014 . 248 pp., $60.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-8032-4988-2 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2015 2015 2015 Book...

...Ruth Mostern The River, The Plain, and the State: An Environmental Drama in Northern Song China (1048–1128) . By Ling Zhang . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2016 . 333 pp., $80.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-1-1071-5598-5 . © 2017 Agricultural History Society 2017 428...

... sources of the Agrarian Reform Authority’s historical archive, this article examines the controversial debate over the reform outcomes, focusing on a limited area in southern Tuscany, the Grosseto Plain, as a case study. Analysis of initial projects and their changes over time demonstrates that the form...

...Monica R. Gisolfi Plain Folk’s Fight: The Civil War and Reconstruction in Piney Woods Georgia . Mark V. Wetherington . Copyright 2008 Agricultural History Society 2008 2008 BookReviews ganic farming, and sustainability movements have their codes of acceptable conduct, sharing some...

...Brian Q. Cannon Plain but Wholesome: Foodways of the Mormon Pioneers . By Brock Cheney . Salt Lake City : University of Utah Press , 2012 . 224 pp., $19.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-1-60781-208-1 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2013 2013 2013 Book Reviews selecting sites...

...Patrick G. Williams Yeomen, Sharecroppers, and Socialists: Plain Folk Protest in Texas, 1870-1914 . Kyle G. Wilkison . © 2010 Agricultural History Society 2010 AgriculturHalistory Spring Westhas givenus a valuableadditionto the historiographoyf the South CarolinaUpcountry. EldredE...

...Steven Reschly New York Amish: Life in the Plain Communities of the Empire State . Karen M. Johnson-Weiner . Ithaca : Cornell University Press , 2010 . 240 pp., $24.95 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-8014-4518-7 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2012 2012 Agricultural History...

...John Hayes Agricultural History Fall was seen through to fulfillment by a remarkable collective effort. Matthew Mitchelson Kennesaw State University Trouble in Goshen: Plain Folk, Roosevelt, Jesus, and Marx in the Great Depression South. By Fred C. Smith. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi...

...Julie Courtwright Abstract Rainmaking flourished on the Great Plains during the 1890s drought. A complicated hybrid of sincere belief in science and confidence games, Plains peoples' willingness to place tentative faith in the practice reflected larger insecurities about the advisability...

...JOSHUA D. MACFADYEN Abstract A new thirst for paint and color in cities made extensive flax production profitable in the northern Great Plains and Prairies and contributed to the cultivation of the most fragile grassland ecosystems. The production of flax seed for linseed oil became an early spin...

... Foundation, 1973 ), 135 3 Winona LaDuke , All Our Relations: Native Struggles for Land and Life (Boston: South End Press, 1999 ), 78 -90. 5 Teresa Erickson of the Northern Plains Resource Council, interview by author, Billings, Montana, 5 August 1997. 6 Northern Plains...

...Virgil W. Dean The Future of the Southern Plains . Sherry L. Smith . Copyright 2005 Agricultural History Society 2005 104 / Agricultural History book to follow at times. Riley's prose is generally clear and Johns's captions are helpful, but the chapters often seem internally...

...Frederick R. Davis Fruits and Plains: The Horticultural Transformation of America . Philip J. Pauly . © 2010 Agricultural History Society 2010 2010 BookReviews providereliefto thousandsofmigranthseadingfora newlifeinKansas.In additiontolocalsourceso...

...Rebecca S. Wingo [email protected] Grasslands Grown: Creating Place on the U.S. Northern Plains and Canadian Prairies . By Molly Rozum . Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press , 2021 . 500 pp., $75.00 , hardcover, ISBN 9780803285767 . Copyright © 2023 the Agricultural...

...Steven J. Bucklin Cold War in a Cold Land: Fighting Communism on the Northern Plains . By David Mills . Norman : University of Oklahoma Press , 2015 . 312 pp., $29.95 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-8061-4694-2. © 2016 Agricultural History Society 2016 2016 Book Reviews history from...

...Kent Blaser On the Great Plains: Agriculture and Environment . Geoff Cunfer . Copyright 2007 Agricultural History Society 2007 2007 Book Reviews American agriculture to share center stage with conventional agriculture. Nevertheless, the grist for such an explanatory framework can...

...Lisa Ossian Children of the Western Plains: The Nineteenth-Century Experience . Marilyn Irvin Holt . Copyright 2006 Agricultural History Society 2006 Book Reviews / 127 Mingling, matching, and cross-referencing the contents of these transcribed conversations prove the heroic role...

... and on the Great Plains. Successful apple growing in this relatively small, ecologically and economically distinct region faced many geo-specific obstacles. Although the Black Hills provided shelter from winter winds, moderated temperatures, and provided enough water—at least compared to the surrounding northern...

...Sean Gouglas Bound in Twine: The History and Ecology of the Henequen-Wheat Complex for Mexico and the American and Canadian Plains, 1880–1950 . Sterling Evans . © 2009 Agricultural History Society 2009 2009 BookReviews a usefulintroductiotnoall thingscitrusA. nd itmayinspirea...

...Andrew Watson The Greater Plains delivers on its promise in that it “complicates earlier narratives of the plains as a region prone to ecological disaster” (xvii). But environmental declensionism is still an important part of the field, especially if we are talking about the Great Plains...