...Catherine F. Patterson [email protected] Histories of People and Landscape: Essays on the Sheffield Region in Memory of David Hey . Edited by R. W. Hoyle . Hertfordshire, UK : Hertfordshire University Press , 2021 . 218 pp., $79.95 , paperback, ISBN 9781912260393...

...Daniel McDonald [email protected] dan.lee.mcdonald@ Region out of Place: The Brazilian Northeast and the World, 1924–1968 . By Courtney J. Campbell . Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press , 2022 . 312 pp., $60.00 , hardcover, ISBN 9780822946212...

... challenges. Like Aldrich, historians contest the region’s stultifying and monolithic image to bring to light the wide variety of meaningful and important gendered and cross-cultural experiences. Although the region is often difficult to interpret in all of its complexity, contradictions, and variations...

...Terry Rugeley Heterarchy, Political Economy, and the Ancient Maya: The Three Rivers Region of the East-Central Yucatán Peninsula . Vernon L. Scarborough , Fred Valdez Jr. and Nicholas Dunning . Copyright 2004 Agricultural History Society 2004 382 / Agricultural History...

...Christopher A. Conte Challenging Nature: Local Knowledge, Agroscience, and Food Security in Tanga Region, Tanzania . Philip W. Porter . Copyright 2008 Agricultural History Society 2008 Book Reviews Africa ChallengingNature:Local Knowledge,Agroscience,and Food Security inTanga Region...

... Region No More: Making the Case for a Revival of Midwestern Regional History Sara Egge Centre College Finding a New Midwestern History. Edited by Jon Lauck, Gleaves Whitney, and Joseph Hogan. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2018. 396 pp., $55.00, hardback, ISBN 978-1-4962-0182-9. In 2015, a group...

...Jenny Barker Devine The Lost Region: Toward a Revival of Midwestern History . By Jon K. Lauck . Iowa City : University of Iowa Press , 2013 . 180 pp., $35.00 , paperback, ISBN 978-1-60938-189-9 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2015 2015 Agricultural History Spring...

...Linda L. Ivey River City and Valley Life: An Environmental History of the Sacramento Region . Edited by Christopher J. Castaneda and Lee M. A. Simpson . Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press , 2013 . 416 pp., $27.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-08229-6250-2 . © the Agricultural...

...Craig E. Colten Southern Water, Southern Power: How the Politics of Cheap Energy and Water Scarcity Shaped a Region . By Christopher J. Manganiello . Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press , 2015 . 320 pp., $39.95 , hardback, ISBN 978-1-4696-2005-3. © 2016 Agricultural...

...Michael Winslow Leisure, Plantations, and the Making of a New South: The Sporting Plantations of the South Carolina Lowcountry and Red Hills Region, 1900–1940 . Edited by Julia Brock and Daniel Vivian . Lanham : Lexington Books , 2015 . 222 pp., $85.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-7391...

...Andrew Watson [email protected] The Greater Plains: Rethinking a Region's Environmental Histories . Edited by Brian Frehner and Kathleen A. Brosnan . Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press , 2021 . 406 pp., $30.00 , paperback, ISBN 9781496226471 . Copyright © 2024...

...Peter H. Wood This Remote Part of the World: Regional Formation in Lower Cape Fear, North Carolina, 1725–1775 . Bradford J. Wood . Copyright 2007 Agricultural History Society 2007 2007 Book Reviews and why concerns for the environment stood center stage in the global strategy...

...Gabriella M. Petrick Saving Our Harvest: The Story of the Mid-Atlantic Region’s Canning and Freezing Industry . Ed Kee . Copyright 2008 Agricultural History Society 2008 2008 BookReviews executives respond directly tomedia forces, not waiting for public outcry and legislative pressure...

...Paula Nelson The Identity of the American Midwest: Essays on Regional History . Andrew R. L. Cayton and Susan E. Gray . Copyright 2007 Agricultural History Society 2007 AgriculturHalistory Winter The Identitoyf thAe mericanMidwest:Essays onRegionalHistoryE. dited byAndrew R. L...

... opportunities for cooperation on a strictly regional albeit transnational basis that pitted bio-geopolitical spaces against each other. This article retraces the formation of these spaces by analyzing the deliberations of committees and congresses that gathered to define an international agricultural order...

...Victor W. Geraci Yankee Moderns: Folk Regional Identity in the Sawmill Valley of Western Massachusetts, 1890–1920 . Michael Hoberman . Copyright 2001 Agricultural History Society 2001 522 / Agricultural History Hess. In 1893, the most successful, Sears, Roebuck and Company, entered...

...Richard C. Hoffmann Agricultural and Rural Society after the Black Death: Common Themes and Regional Variations . Ben Dodds and Richard Britnell . © 2010 Agricultural History Society 2010 2010 BookReviews theFrenchRevolutionI.n thisbook,howeverJ, eremyHayhoearguesfora...

...-grant colleges in this region limited accessibility for students from poorer backgrounds. The students that did attend and graduate rarely returned to the farm, instead pursuing social mobility into new middle-class careers and professions. These findings counter previous arguments that early land-grant...

... an alfalfa boom on the American plains, especially in northern regions like South Dakota where Hansen worked. However, the effects of the growth of alfalfa were not limited to the Dakotas; they were also connected to and influenced another boom in the American Southwest. Moreover, in order to plant new...

.... Rather postmodernity’s concern with fragmentation and asymmetry, and the linguistic turn with its fixation on cultural invention and created mythology, seemed evident. Regional, national, and international-based studies alike reflect this new research agenda, and this article highlights seven books...