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...Emily M. Hill Red Revolution, Green Revolution: Scientific Farming in Socialist China . By Sigrid Schmalzer . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 2016 . 320 pp., $45.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-2263-3015-0 . © 2017 Agricultural History Society 2017 Book Reviews 585 India...

...Eric Strahorn Re-thinking Economic Development: The Green Revolution, Agrarian Science, and Transformation in Bangladesh . By Fujita Koichi . Kyoto : Kyoto University Press , 2010 . 316 pp., $89.95 , hardback, ISBN 978-1-920901-16-5 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2011 2011...

...Daniel B. Ahlquist Revolution Interrupted: Farmers, Students, Law, and Violence in Northern Thailand . By Tyrell Haberkorn . Madison : University of Wisconsin Press , 2011 . 240 pp., $24.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-0-299-28184-7 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2012 2012...

... research institutes, the Indian Agricultural Research Institute and the Central Rice Research Institute. The article revises the argument that scientific research was of little importance to India's agricultural development policy before the coming of the capital- and chemical-intensive Green Revolution...

...Sterling Evans Seeds of Sustainability: Lessons from the Birthplace of the Green Revolution in Agriculture . Edited by Pamela A. Matson . Washington, DC : Island Press , 2012 . 332 pp., $45.00 , paperback, ISBN 978-1-59726-525-6 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2013 2013...

... Herman Husband fit into, and led, agrarian protesters through many dashed opportunities in the late eighteenth century. For historians of the American Revolution, this is a timely reminder of all the kinds of disaffection that were at work in driving popular participation in the revolution...

...Samuel A. McReynolds The Ambivalent Revolution: Forging State and Nation in Chiapas, 1910–1945 . Stephen E. Lewis . Copyright 2007 Agricultural History Society 2007 2007 BookReviews tations and anecdotes by Leo Tolstoy and T. E. Lawrence worked for their intended purposes. They seemed...

...JONATHAN HARWOOD Abstract Despite their success in boosting cereals production overall, the Green Revolution programs of the 1950s and 1960s were often criticized for failing to achieve their declared aim of alleviating world hunger. Most critics argued that the programs had produced a technology...

...DAVID CAREY, JR. Abstract Despite extensive literature both supporting and critiquing the Green Revolution, surprisingly little attention has been paid to synthetic fertilizers’health and environmental effects or indigenous farmers’ perspectives. The introduction of agrochemicals in the mid...

...Jon Lauck A Revolution Down on the Farm: The Transformation of American Agriculture since 1929 . Paul K. Conkin . © 2010 Agricultural History Society 2010 AgriculturHalistory Winter mabuocuhtalsoWcalenfadremllBeerrsfr,ayromrWeressm'Jaarckkestos-no,risnoenoe...

... dissatisfaction with The Human Footprint. In places I felt Penna's writing was not particularly compelling and occasionally even a bit incoherent.One paragraph, forexample, on the industrial revolution, seemed simply inserted in themidst of a section on "nutrition, climate change, and population" (101). I also...

... reform that have fatefully blocked any attempt to institutionalize private property rights in present-day China. DeMare s work is also insufficient in addressing the regional variations of the agrarian revolution. Regions in China differ geographically and in the practices of landlordism...

...Zachary Nowak Book Reviews 753 Europe and Asia The Sober Revolution: Appellation Wine and the Transformation of France. By Joseph Bohling. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2018. 306 pp., $47.95, hardback, ISBN 978-1-5017-1604-1. Jospeh Bohling s new book on French wine, The Sober Revolution...

... book that deepens our understanding of the history of both terroir wine and traditional plonk. Zachary Nowak Harvard University Land Wars: The Story of China s Agrarian Revolution. By Brian DeMare. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2019. 240 pp., $24.00, paperback, ISBN 9781-5036-0849-8. Drawing...

...Charles J. Holden © the Agricultural History Society, 2015 2015 Sharing the Prize: The Economics of the Civil Rights Revolution in the American South . By Gavin Wright . Cambridge : Harvard University Press , 2013 . 368 pp., $35.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-674-04933-8 . 2015...

...Jim Norris For God and Revolution: Priest, Peasant, and Agrarian Socialism in the Mexican Huasteca . By Mark Saad Saka . Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press , 2013 . 208 pp., $50.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-8263-5338-2 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2015 2015...

...Carmen Kordick Biography of a Hacienda: Work and Revolution in Rural Mexico . By Elizabeth Terese Newman . Tucson : University of Arizona Press , 2014 . 272 pp., $29.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-0-8165-3073-1 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2015 2015 Agricultural History...

.... India’s Green Revolution: Economic Gains and Political Costs . Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press , 2015 . Frankel, Francine R. India’s Political Economy: The Gradual Revolution . 2nd ed. New Delhi : Oxford University Press , 2009 . Fullilove, Courtney . The Profit...

...David N. Lucsko Technology in the Industrial Revolution . By Barbara Hahn . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2020 . 236 pp., $24.99 , paperback, ISBN 978-1-3166-3746-3. © 2021 Agricultural History Society 2021 384 Agricultural History demand for wheat will keep rising...

...José Miguel Chávez Leyva Abstract This research looks at the Bracero Program and the Green Revolution in relation to their impact on rural peasant farmers in mid-twentieth-century Mexico. The Bracero Program and the Mexican Agricultural Program, which began the Green Revolution, both arose from...