...Colleen M. Moore Tsardom of Sufficiency, Empire of Norms: Statistics, Land Allotments, and Agrarian Reform in Russia, 1700–1921 . By David W. Darrow . Montreal : McGill-Queen’s University Press , 2018 . 376 pp., $44.95 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-7735-5507-5. © 2019 Agricultural...

... goods. To achieve this rapid transformation, the French state pursued a high-modernist program of agricultural industrialization. As part of this program, the state created a highly controversial land reform organization, the Société d’aménagement foncier et d’établissement rural (SAFER). Through...

... ladder was a product of Taylor and Ely's mutual pursuit of conservative reform, an attempt to achieve the common good of widespread landownership without revolutionary disruptions to the status quo. Acting on their social Darwinist beliefs that societies evolved through successive stages of social...

... in London used agricultural science to become drivers in agricultural reform. While that change was not without significant pushback from small-scale dairy farmers, the most pressing problem was that a wide variety of scientific experts vied for agricultural expertise on cow's milk, including veterinarians...

...Kristin Mapel Bloomberg Abstract The decades following the Civil War saw a proliferation of reform ideas about rural life, labor, and family and gender roles. Clara Bewick Colby's “Farmers' Wives” was a particularly robust example of women's late nineteenth-century oratory that used a gendered...

...Robert H. Zieger Roots of Reform: Farmers, Workers, and the American State, 1877–1917 . Elizabeth Sanders . Copyright 2001 Agricultural History Society 2001 Book Reviews Roots of Reform: Farmers, Workers, and the American State, 1877-1917. By Elizabeth Sanders. Chicago: University...

...Neil E. Harl Policy Reform in American Agriculture: Analysis and Prognosis . David Orden , Robert Paarlberg and Terry Roe . Copyright 2001 Agricultural History Society 2001 Book Reviews Policy Reform in American Agriculture: Analysis and Prognosis. By David Orden, Robert...

... ’System of Farming’ and the Agricultural Revolution in the Deep South, 1850-1885," Agricultural History31 (July1957): 30 -39 G. Melvin Herndon, "Agricultural Reform in Ante¬ bellum Virginia: William Galt, Jr., A Case Study," Agricultural History52 (July1978): 394 -406 Weymouth T. Jordan, "Noah B...

...Robert S. Davis Nature’s Management: Writings on Landscape and Reform, 1822-1859 . Edmund Ruffin and Jack Temple Kirby . Copyright 2008 Agricultural History Society 2008 2008 BookReviews meat has been defined by inequality, exploitation, and power from (at least) the industry's...

...Sara Gregg AgriculturHalistory Summer NorthAmerica The Landscape of Reform: Civic Pragmatism and Environmental Thought inAmerica. By Ben A. Minteer. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2006. 272 pp., $28.00,paperback, ISBN 0-262-13461-6. Ben A. Minteer's study of the contributions of civic pragmatism to environ...

...Keith Volanto Reaping a Greater Harvest: African Americans, the Extension Service, and Rural Reform in Jim Crow Texas . Debra Reid . © 2009 Agricultural History Society 2009 AgriculturHalistory Spring David La Vere'sLifeamongtheTexasIndians.BakerandHenshawfocused theirresearchin...

...Bert Kreitlow Watering the Revolution: An Environmental and Technological History of Agrarian Reform in Mexico . By Mikael D. Wolfe . Durham : Duke University Press , 2017 . 336 pp., $26.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-0-8223-6374-3 . © 2018 Agricultural History Society 2018 630...

... of the publishers and editors of farm newspapers lived in cities and were influenced by progressive reformers, farm newspapers often reflected urban reform ideas. At the same time, farm newspapers provided space for opposing viewpoints by publishing letters to the editor. The coverage of agricultural education...

...Sara E. Morris The Farm Press, Reform, and Rural Change, 1895–1920 . John J. Fry . Copyright 2007 Agricultural History Society 2007 2007 BookReviews scales. As McConnell and Keys ask in their excellent chapter-"Meta Analysis ofAgricultural ChangeHow can one rectify important drivers...

...Pamela Riney-Kehrberg Abstract In the early years of the twentieth century, rural America faced a population crisis as young people increasingly left farms for cities. Progressive reformers responded to this crisis with various suggestions meant to more firmly attach youngsters to their rural roots...

... , for moor burning was nonetheless slow. This did not, however, reflect a failure of state authority. Rather, state officials' close collaboration with local agricultural experts and social reformers bolstered the recognition that there would be no instant remedies and that a ban would be counterproductive...

..., but to agrarianism itself: morality, proper land management, and the relationship between industry and agriculture within North Carolina’s economy. Examining the rhetoric surrounding gold extraction offers insight into the nature of early national agricultural reform, as it indicates that at least some...

...Sungjo Kim Abstract This study aims to incorporate sociocultural and everyday life historical perspectives into the existing research on South Korean land reform. It seeks to position the excluded voices of farmers into the narrative of economic history and, by doing so, examines the possibility...

... and the Third World Peasant: Land Reform in Asia and Latin America ( New York : Praeger , 1974 ), 72 – 74 ; “Philippines: Property Rights and Resource Governance Profile,” USAID from the American People , http://www.usaidlandtenure.net/sites/default/files/country-profiles/full-reports...

...Michelle Mart Ghostworkers and Greens: The Cooperative Campaigns of Farmworkers and Environmentalists for Pesticide Reform . By Adam Tompkins . Ithaca : Cornell University Press , 2016 . 248 pp., $27.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-1-5017-0448-2 . © 2017 Agricultural History Society...