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...Bonnie Lynn-Sherow Electrifying the Rural American West: Stories of Power, People, and Place . By Leah S. Glaser . Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press , 2009 . 318 pp., $55.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-8032-2219-9 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2011 2011 2011 Book...

...Randal Beeman The Union of Their Dreams: Power, Hope, and Struggle in Cesar Chavez's Farm Worker Movement . By Miriam Pawel . New York : Bloomsbury Press , 2009 . 336 pp., $28.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-59691-460-5 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2011 2011 Agricultural...

...James C. Giesen Cotton and Race in the Making of America: The Human Costs of Economic Power . By Gene Dattel . Chicago : Ivan R. Dee , 2009 . 416 pp., $28.95 , hardback, ISBN 978-1-56663-747-3 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2011 2011 Agricultural History Spring early...

...D. Clayton Brown Boll Weevil Blues: Cotton, Myth, and Power in the American South . By James C. Giesen . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 2011 . 240 pp., $40.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-226-29287-8 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2012 2012 Agricultural History...

...Edward D. Melillo Ecology and Power: Struggles over Land and Material Resources in the Past, Present, and Future . Edited by Alf Hornborg, Brett Clark, and Kenneth Hermele . New York : Routledge , 2012 . 312 pp., $49.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-0-415-64308-5 . © the Agricultural...

...Heidi Dodson J. V. Conran and Rural Political Power: Boss Mythology in the Missouri Bootheel . By Will Sarvis . Lanham : Lexington Books , 2012 . 194 pp., $60.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-7391-6985-8 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2014 2014 2014 Book Reviews African...

...Kristin L. Ahlberg The Global Interior: Mineral Frontiers and American Power . By Megan Black . Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2019. 360 pp., $39.95 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-6749-8425-7. © 2020 Agricultural History Society 2020 Book Reviews 165 President Rutherford B...

...Keith Richotte, Jr. 504 Agricultural History interest scholars of social movements and politics alongside environmental historians. Alyssa Ribeiro Allegheny College Power and Progress on the Prairie: Governing People on Rosebud Reservation. By Thomas Biolsi. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota...

...John Hayes Hillbilly Hellraisers: Federal Power and Populist Defiance in the Ozarks . By J. Blake Perkins . Urbana : University of Illinois Press , 2017 . 296 pp., $24.95 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-252-08289-4. © 2020 Agricultural History Society 2020 672 Agricultural History...

...Hans Christian Wien Banana Wars: Power, Production, and History in the Americas . Steve Striffler and Mark Moberg . Copyright 2005 Agricultural History Society 2005 Book Reviews Banana Wars: Power, Production, and History in the Americas. Edited by Steve Striffler and Mark Moberg...

...Chana Lee Copyright 2008 Agricultural History Society 2008 Building Houses out of Chicken Legs: Black Women, Food, and Power . Psyche A. Williams-Forson . 2008 BookReviews and church attendance, and her perceived lack of love inher home, Celestia poured out her discontent to her diary...

...Brian Q. Cannon Copyright 2008 Agricultural History Society 2008 Rivers by Design: State Power and the Origins of US Flood Control . Karen M. O’Neill . AgriculturHalistory Spring the default category. The authors discuss gender differences briefly, but do not attempt to think about...

...Marc Becker Intimate Enemies: Landowners, Power, and Violence in Chiapas . Aaron Bobrow-Strain . Copyright 2007 Agricultural History Society 2007 2009 Book Reviews do so efficientlybecause specialization allows them to simplifymanagement and optimize capital investment bymaximizing...

...Francisco Bonilla Ecology and Power in the Age of Empire: Europe and the Transformation of the Tropical World . By Corey Ross . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2017 . 512 pp., $60.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-1995-9041-4. © 2019 Agricultural History Society 2019 186...

...Jayson Otto Food Power: The Rise and Fall of the Postwar American Food System . By Bryan L. McDonald . New York : Oxford University Press , 2017 . 264 pp., $35.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-19-060068-6. © 2019 Agricultural History Society 2019 Book Reviews 381 long-standing work...

...Courtney I. P. Thomas Supermarket USA: Food and Power in the Cold War Farms Race . By Shane Hamilton . New Haven : Yale University Press , 2018 . 288 pp., $38.00 , hardcover, ISBN 978-0-3002-3269-1. © 2019 Agricultural History Society 2019 554 Agricultural History vides...

... the characterization of the US economy as a free market system, and explains the rise of agribusiness as a consequence of Cold War era politics and policies. In a world in which the power of agribusiness should be at the heart of public investigation and debate, Hamilton s work is essential. Courtney I. P. Thomas...

... in Black and White: Race, Gender, and Power in Home Demonstration Work CARMEN V. HARRIS This essay examines the intersectional experience of African American home demonstration agents in South Carolina between 1910 and 1968. It investigates how gender created common experiences and how white supremacy...

...Christopher M. Church Book Reviews 759 an important contribution to comparative agricultural history. Andy Bruno Northern Illinois University North America Power and Subsistence: The Political Economy of Grain in New France. By Louise Dechêne. Translated by Peter Feldstein. Montreal: McGill-Queen...

... especially on the way that rivers have often been forgotten over time. Amahia Mallea s book makes an excellent contribution to this emerging scholarship, while also restoring the Missouri River to historical memory. Charles Closmann University of North Florida Capitalist Pigs: Pigs, Pork, and Power...