...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...

...Christopher L. Pastore cpastore@albany.edu The World of Plymouth Plantation . By Carla Gardina Pestana . Cambridge, MA : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press , 2020 . 232 pp., $25.95 , hardback, ISBN 9780674238510. 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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...John C. Rodrigue 122 / Agricultural History cultivation took credit for its success and used it to bind thousands to hard labor. For Africans, it was indeed "black rice." Daniel C. Littlefield University of South Carolina Delta Sugar: Louisiana's Vanishing Plantation Landscape. By John B. Re- hder...

...Erin Stewart Mauldin Agricultural History Fall 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. Comparing Apples, Oranges, and Cotton is a collection...

...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...

...Natalie Zacek Plantation Jamaica 1750-1850: Capital and Control in a Colonial Economy . B. W. Higman . Copyright 2008 Agricultural History Society 2008 2008 Book Reviews occurred in the other parts of the country,which also erupted in revolution (1). The Zapatista Revolution...

...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...

...Daniel C. Littlefield Plantation Enterprise in Colonial South Carolina . S. Max Edelson . Copyright 2008 Agricultural History Society 2008 2008 Book Reviews International Trade in Endangered Species. She draws attention to the emergence of intermediate cultivation strategies...

...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...

... within the Atlantic economy. This essay examines the changing perceptions and uses of trees as the key to understanding how planters transformed a perceived wilderness into one of British America’s wealthiest and most repressive plantation societies. Colonists used trees to assess and understand...

...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...

...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...

...Justin Roberts Book Reviews 247 Latin America The Plantation Machine: Atlantic Capitalism in French Saint-Domingue and British Jamaica. By Trevor Burnard and John Garrigus. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016. 360 pp., $45.00, hardback, ISBN 978-0-8122-4829-6. Trevor Burnard...

...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...