...Philip L. Frana Notes of a Potato Watcher . James Lang . Copyright 2003 Agricultural History Society 2003 Book Reviews Notes of a Potato Watcher. By James Lang. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2001.365 pp., $49.95, cloth, ISBN 1-58544-138-4; $24.95, paper, ISBN 1-58544...

...Peter Scholliers Feeding the People: The Politics of the Potato . By Rebecca Earle . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2020 . 308 pp., $24.95 , hardcover, ISBN 9781108688451. © 2020 Agricultural History Society 2020 492 Agricultural History specialized to find traction...

... and the Laborer: Potato Grounds and Allotments Southern England in Nineteenth-Century JEREMY F. S. BURCHARDT Agricultural laborers were the largest, single occupational group of male workers in early nineteenth-century England, a position they were to retain for most of the century. Probably about three quarters...

...Rusty Bittermann; Margaret McCallum Abstract Potato production is now the central agricultural enterprise on Prince Edward Island, but live cattle were the main agricultural export in the first decades after the island became part of the British Empire. Cattle production relied on effective use...

...: sweet potato, bengkuang, (Irish) potato, and cassava. The article analyzes the differences between the various crops as regards their spread in time and space and the reasons that the indigenous roots and tubers were pushed aside by the alien crops. In conclusion, the findings are related to various...

.... Agricultural historians will find the collection especially helpful given that many of the essays focus on the development of colonial and modern agricultural practices. Camden Burd Eastern Illinois University Feeding the People: The Politics of the Potato. By Rebecca Earle. Cambridge: Cambridge University...

... Readjustment of an Old Cotton State: South Carolina, 1820-1860 (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1958), 62-63; Seventh Census of the United States, 1850 , 345-48; Eight Census of the United States, 1860 , 128-31. 67. An Edisto Planter, “On the Sweet Potato,” The Southern Agriculturist...

..., the potato plants seemed to melt away overnight leaving behind rotting potatoes. With the potato a primary source of nutrition for most of the Irish, its loss set the stage for the famine. For plant pathology, a scientific shift was occurring in parallel with the famine, leading to the find- 112 2015 Book...

... place where Notes of a Potato Watcher contributes directly to current historiographical debate is in its depiction of the "Great Hunger" as genocidal in its socioeconomic dimensions. "Ireland's plight had as much to do with prejudice, free-trade ideology, and land tenure as it did with Malthusian...

... a solution to the problem. In his Es? say on Sheep, Robert R. Livingston divulged lessons learned from the French peasantry. He described potatoes and carrots as the "succulent foods" that could close the early-spring gap in foodstuffs at least for sheep and hogs (the French fed them to rabbits and cattle...

... and revolu? tion, culminating with the potato blight of the 1840s. The authors argue that the implication of a botanical "Dark Age" before 1850 is unjustified. Rather, independent natural philosophers in numerous academies of agricultural experimentation gathered a broad spectrum of useful information...

..., for example, emphasizes the changing composition of field crops. Alongside the usual grains and peas, farmers briefly cultivated hemp in response to a subsidy, and in the nineteenth century, in response, apparently, to difficult circum? stances, potatoes. Here farm-level data, available notably in the 1831...

... structured survey of sub-periods of Irish agricul tural development and disaster. Instead, with chapter titles including "Ploughs," "Potatoes," and "Poultry,"A History of Irish Farming focuses on 415 Agricultural History Summer the everyday practicalities of farming throughout the island of Ireland: tools...

... to Lochmaddy the day before in the chance of getting some potatoes from the factor. There was no food of any kind in the house (87). 324 2015 Book Reviews So ran the report by Robert Graham on visiting Barra during his investigation into the causes and possible solutions to the famine, or destitution...

..., pecans, nursery stock, pork, wheat, beef, celery, walnuts, potatoes, turkeys, and more?a veritable smorgasbord (vii). We meet the Baileys of Minnesota endeavoring to maintain a family structure to their profit? able nursery; the Dudas of Florida plagued by labor problems in the rush of the tomato harvest...

... in a covered wagon and arrived with ten cents and a half bushel of potatoes to live on.9 Those who filed upon the land had little to guide them aside from the appearance of the soil and the sagebrush. The RS, which wanted to discour- age premature filing, provided no guidance and actually possessed little accu...

... borrowed 43 Agricultural History $200 from Citizens National Bank in Blooming Grove on January 21, 1928, to purchase one hundred twenty feet of garden wire ($4), a riding planter ($60), five bushels of oats ($3.75), a cord of wood ($7), four bushels of cane seed ($5), and some Irish potato seeds for $2.25...

... as potatoes, sugar beet, and pigs. As in the conquest of colonial North America, Saraiva surveys the fascist creatures of empire that extended the reach of these regimes into the everyday lives of citizens and subjects. In their imperial realms in Africa and Book Reviews 581 Eastern Europe, fascist...

... of drying and canning foods, families also buried their vegetables (including cabbages, potatoes, and sweet potatoes) for use later in the year.14 The range of produce grown by many families motivated an admirer of Appalachian culture to observe: "There are still many families who come as near as possible...

... crops, including potatoes and tomatoes.15 In Arizona, shippers sought experienced, dependable farmers who were willing to fill large contracts. Hitoshi Yamamoto migrated from California to Arizona in 1915 and began raising vegetables on contract for the S. A. Gerrard Company. The company provided seed...