...Christopher R. Boyer Copyright 2000 Agricultural History Society 2000 Panama’s Poor: Victims, Agents, and Historymakers . Gloria Rudolf . Book Reviews / 829 him would hark back to a simpler, more wild vision of the planet. But what Foster fails to provide in terms of historical...

...James S. Day Rich Man’s War, Poor Man’s Fight: Race, Class, and Power in the Rural South during the First World War . Jeanette Keith . Copyright 2007 Agricultural History Society 2007 2007 BookReviews market,so here his accountsquares withbut does not significantlaylter...

...John Beckett The English Rural Poor, 1850-1914 . Mark Freeman . Copyright 2008 Agricultural History Society 2008 2008 BookReviews for all the scholars interested in the development of modern Italian agri culture. Enrico Dal Lago National University of Ireland, Galway TheEnglishRural...

...Michael Snape Rural Society and the Anglican Clergy, 1815–1914: Encountering and Managing the Poor . Robert Lee . © 2009 Agricultural History Society 2009 2009 BookReviews practiceacrossthecountrywaswidelyacknowledgedA. nneOrde haspreviouslyediteda...

... was the effort to raise the standard of living for the county's rural poor through increasing home-farm production and improving diet. The initiative entailed active intervention by Farm Security Administration farm and home supervisors and illustrates the tension between the desire to promote independence among...

... limitations and political obstacles in their efforts to conquer water, accomplishing only parts of the grandiose vision. Ultimately, salty waters and poor drainage doomed the project. While the livestock industry survived and the oil business thrived in the subsequent decades, the dream of idyllic irrigated...

..., in which the bulk of the rural population was poor, had a weak domestic demand and had to obtain overseas markets, by international trade and by forging an empire, to gain the consumers necessary to sustain an industrial economy. Northern farms generated most of the demand for consumer goods beyond...

... whether national farm programs should benefit larger, landowning, and more commercial farm operators or should aim to sustain large numbers of smaller farms and address the plight of the rural poor. These accounts, however, slight the increasingly influential arguments put forth by liberal economists...

... and crime to pen pigs and dispossess poor immigrant “swill women” of a means of reproduction. In the early twentieth century, officials championed pigs as living machines that turned garbage into pork, as long as they were spatially separated from the city and managed by professionalized men. Following pigs...

... the soil had been depleted, the old field was abandoned for as long as twenty years. Environmental factors such as poor soils, rugged topography, and livestock diseases accounted for the persistence of this practice, more so than slavery or the availability of western lands. Shifting cultivation slowly...

... labor, meaning-making, and natural resource use, goes into creating a place for recreation—and how agriculture extends beyond commodity crop production. The growth of golf turf on the poor soil of the Carolina sandhills region relied upon intensive resource use and an approximation of convertible...

.... CRLA linked the provision of legal services with interventions in the workplace as it sought to restructure an unequal system. Unlike other studies of legal services that stress the actions of lawyers, this article illuminates the role of farmworkers and the rural poor as well. It traces...

... tractors, primarily as a solution to poor plowing and low land productivity. The first tractors were tested in 1907, starting a process of technological innovation that resulted in the adoption of tractors after World War I. Introducing the tractor into the large estates of a peripheral rural society...

... amounted to something of a paradox. The county’s planters were thoroughly embedded in the larger Chesapeake plantation society and replicated, insofar as they were able, the features of that society, including the use of slave labor and cultivation of tobacco. Yet poor soil conditions pushed residents...

... rural credit, primarily in the form of mortgage loans. Such local financial institutions embraced a social mission of aiding the poor and promoting small producers, while seeking to encourage economic modernization and Czech national revival. Strengthening the economic position of small agricultural...

... and the organization of the industry. It expanded rapidly, not because of any natural advantage in soil or climate, but rather because it fit well with the needs of small, and often poor, farmers raising a variety of crops. It peaked during the 1920s and 1930s and faded a generation later. Canning largely disappeared...

...Josip Faričić; Željka Šiljković; Martin Glamuzina Abstract The Lower Neretvian area is one of the most developed agricultural regions of Croatia. Until the second half of the twentieth century, this was a scarcely populated area with poor inhabitants and undeveloped agriculture. Extensive land...

... into the extant population. This paper explores rural refugee settlement as a productive force on the domestic economy and examines its impact on the rural markets of Greece. It also investigates how a poor, war-weary country with a population barely over five million provided land and employment in a largely...

...Chad Raymond Abstract Communist leaders in Vietnam attempted to use agricultural collectivization to transform a poor, agrarian country into a modern, socialist nation with an industrialized economy. Collectivized agricultural production lacked sufficient economic incentives for Vietnamese farmers...

... poor blacks and whites. However, a conservative Congress aborted the federal democratic-planning program in 1942; soon thereafter these anti-New Dealers banished critical social science from the USDA. The likes of which have not been seen since, at least not in the United States. Copyright 2008...