...Sean Kelley Nassau Plantation: The Evolution of a Texas German Slave Plantation . By James C. Kearney . Denton : University of North Texas Press , 2010 . 368 pp., $25.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-1-57441-326-7 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2012 2012 Book Reviews North...

...Vaughn Scribner Planters, Merchants, and Slaves: Plantation Societies in British America, 1650–1820 . By Trevor Burnard . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 2015 . 360 pp., $45.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0–226-28610-5 . © 2017 Agricultural History Society 2017 Agricultural...

...Brian Schoen Plantation Kingdom: The American South and its Global Commodities . By Richard Follet, Sven Beckert, Peter Coclanis, and Barbara Hahn . Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press , 2016 . 165 pp., $19.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-1-4214-1940-4 . © 2017 Agricultural...

...Antwain K. Hunter Slave against Slave: Plantation Violence in the Old South . By Jeff Forret . Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press , 2015 . 544 pp., $65.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-8071-6111-1 . © 2017 Agricultural History Society 2017 596 Agricultural History finds...

...Matthew Mulcahy [email protected] Reconstructing the Landscapes of Slavery: A Visual History of the Plantation in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World . By Dale Tomich , Reinaldo Funes Monzote , Carlos Venegas Fornias , and Rafael de Bivar Marquese . Chapel Hill...

...Teresa S. Moyer [email protected] The People of Rose Hill: Black and White Life on a Maryland Plantation . By Lucy Maddox . Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press , 2021 . 224 pp., $54.95 , hardback, ISBN 9781421440965. Copyright © 2023 the Agricultural History Society...

...Zhe Yu Lee [email protected] Plantation Life: Corporate Occupation in Indonesia's Oil Palm Zone . By Tania Murray Li and Pujo Semedi . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2021 . 256 pp., $25.95, paperback, ISBN 9781478014959 . Copyright © 2023 the Agricultural History...

...Sarah Besky [email protected] Tea Environments and Plantation Culture: Imperial Disarray in Eastern India . By Arnab Dey . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2018 . 256 pp., $29.99 , paperback, ISBN 9781108457613 . Copyright © 2022 the Agricultural History Society...

...David Ryden A New World of Labor: The Development of Plantation Slavery in the British Atlantic . By Simon P. Newman . Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press , 2013 . 336 pp., $55.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-8122-4519-6 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2015 2015...

...Robert Gudmestad Florida Plantation Records from the Papers of George Noble Jones . George Noble Jones , Ulrich Bonnell Phillips and James David Glunt . Copyright 2008 Agricultural History Society 2008 2008 Florida Plantation Records from the Papers of George Noble Jones...

...Matt D. Childs Sweet Negotiations: Sugar, Slavery, and Plantation Agriculture in Early Barbados . Russell R. Menard . Copyright 2008 Agricultural History Society 2008 2008 Book Reviews ness of the land (21). Planters' agricultural approach led to widespread erosion, loss of fertility...

...A. Glenn Crothers Pharsalia: An Environmental Biography of a Southern Plantation, 1780-1880 . Lynn A. Nelson . © 2009 Agricultural History Society 2009 2009 Book Reviews Pharsalia:An EnvironmentaBl iographyofa SouthernPlantation,17801880.By LynnA. Nelson.Athens:UniversityofGeorgia...

...Keith Volanto Cotton and Conquest: How the Plantation System Acquired Texas . By Roger G. Kennedy . Norman : University of Oklahoma Press , 2013 . 352 pp., $34.95 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-8061-4346-0 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2015 2015 Agricultural History Summer...

...Russell R. Menard Abstract This essay develops an American approach to the rise of the English Atlantic during the seventeenth century. It argues that productivity gains in plantation agriculture fueled an extraordinary expansion of commerce as planters raising tobacco, sugar, and rice improved...

...Scott E. Giltner A New Plantation World: Sporting Estates in the South Carolina Lowcountry, 1900–1940 . By Daniel J. Vivian . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2018 . 358 pp. $59.99 , hardback, ISBN 978-1-1084-1690-0. © 2020 Agricultural History Society 2020 Book...

...Paul M. Pressly Zephaniah Kingsley Jr. and the Atlantic World: Slave Trader, Plantation Owner, Emancipator . By Daniel L. Schafer . Gainesville : University Press of Florida , 2013 . 352 pp., $29.95 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-8130-4462-0 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2015...

...Kelly Houston Jones Abstract This essay attends to the work life of women on a plantation called Wagram, located on the Arkansas cotton frontier. Through an examination of this absentee-owned farm in one rugged corner of the Old Southwest, it uncovers women who faced challenges that differed from...

...Erin Stewart Mauldin Comparing Apples, Oranges, and Cotton: Environmental Histories of the Global Plantation . Edited by Frank Uekötter . New York : Campus Verlag , 2014 . 272 pp., $49.00 , paperback, ISBN 978-3-593-50028-7 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2015 2015...

... developments—framed here as latifundia and including increases in farm size, production, and labor force—the agricultural economy of Pinar del Río matured into a plantation system at the same time as a second phase of enslavement developed in the larger Atlantic region. The growth of tobacco cultivation...

...Andrew Loyd Craig [email protected] Charting the Plantation Landscape from Natchez to New Orleans . Edited by Laura Kilcer VanHuss . Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press , 2021 . 256 pp., $45.00 , hardcover, ISBN 9780807174791 . Copyright © 2023...