...Charles Closmann A River in the City of Fountains: An Environmental History of Kansas City and the Missouri River . By Amahia K. Mallea . Lawrence : University Press of Kansas , 2018 . 358 pp., $29.95 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-7006-2711-0. © 2019 Agricultural History Society 2019...

...J. Dwight Hines [email protected] Heartland River: A Cultural and Environmental History of the Big Sioux River Valley . Edited by Jon K. Lauck . Sioux Falls, SD : Center for Western Studies , 2022 . 350 pp., $15.00 , hardback, ISBN 9780931170966 . By way of conclusion...

...Greta Marchesi Forced to Abandon Our Fields: The 1914 Clay Southworth Gila River Pima Interviews . By David H. DeJong . Salt Lake City : University of Utah Press , 2011 . 192 pp., $34.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-1-60781-095-7 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2013 2013...

...Rohan D’Souza Blood and Water: The Indus River Basin in Modern History . By David Gilmartin . Oakland : University of California Press , 2015 . 376 pp., $75.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-520-28529-3 . © 2017 Agricultural History Society 2017 Book Reviews 251 in the United States...

...Kristalyn Shefveland Book Reviews Indigenous Prosperity and American Conquest: Indian Women of the Ohio River Valley, 1690 1792. By Susan Sleeper-Smith. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2018. 376 pp., $40.00, hardback, ISBN 978-1-4969-4058-7. Susan Sleeper-Smith s voluminous...

...Jeanette Keith Folklife along the Big South Fork of the Cumberland River . Benita J. Howell . Copyright 2004 Agricultural History Society 2004 Book Reviews / 379 westward migration; the shift from patriarchalism to paternalism; slavery and abolition; and the collapse of deferential...

...John Muldowny Appalachian Aspirations: The Geography of Urbanization and Development in the Upper East Tennessee River Valley, 1865-1900 . John Benhart Jr. . Copyright 2007 Agricultural History Society 2007 Agricultural History Winter in Japan. The project, which Raper thought...

...Mira Kohl Book Reviews Latin America and the Caribbean The People of the River: Nature and Identity in Black Amazonia, 1835 1945. By Oscar de la Torre. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2018. 242 pp., $34.95, paperback, ISBN 978-1-4696-4324-3. Once largely dominated by the work...

...Martin Bruegel Rip Van Winkle’s Neighbors: The Transformation of Rural Society in the Hudson River Valley, 1720–1850 . Thomas S. Wermuth . Copyright 2002 Agricultural History Society 2002 620 / Agricultural History significance, though the domination of the great landlords declined...

...Bruce Bigelow Wetlands Drainage, River Modification, and Sectoral Conflict in the Lower Illinois Valley, 1890–1930 . John Thompson . Copyright 2002 Agricultural History Society 2002 Book Reviews / 735 Wetlands Drainage, River Modification, and Sectoral Conflict in the Lower Illinois...

...Amahia Mallea Copyright 2002 Agricultural History Society 2002 [Footnotes] 1 Champion S. Chase of Omaha, as quoted in the Official Report of the Proceedings of the Missouri River Convention, held in Kansas City , Missouri, 29-30 December 1885 Secretary H. M. Kirkpatrick...

...J. D. Wulfhorst; Evan Glenn Copyright 2002 Agricultural History Society 2002 [Footnotes] 1 Donald Worster , Rivers of Empire: Water, Aridity, and the Growth of the American West (New York: Oxford University Press, 1992 ), 5 . 2 Robert W. Van Kirk and Lyn...

...Donald L. Parman People of Wind River: The Eastern Shoshones, 1825–1900 . Henry E. Stamm IV . Copyright 2001 Agricultural History Society 2001 254 / Agricultural History course, and social relations in California is an engaging and theoretical treatise. It is successful in making...

...Scott P. Marler River of Dark Dreams: Slavery and Empire in the Cotton Kingdom . By Walter Johnson . Cambridge : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press , 2013 . 560 pp., $35.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-674-04555-2 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2015 2015 Agricultural...

...Ian Beamish Slavery's Borderland: Freedom and Bondage along the Ohio River . By Matthew Salafia . Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press , 2013 . 328 pp., $55.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-8122-4521-9 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2015 2015 2015 Book Reviews...

...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...

...Yan Gao The Yellow River: The Problem of Water in Modern China . By David A. Pietz . Cambridge : Harvard University Press , 2015 . 384 pp., $35.95 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-674-05824-8. © 2016 Agricultural History Society 2016 Agricultural History Winter on artificial...

...Kathryn Edgerton-Tarpley Abstract This article examines how the catastrophic Yellow River flood of 1938–1947 impacted rural communities and state-society relations in the inundated area. The flood, which occurred when China's Nationalist government deliberately breached a major Yellow River dike...

...David Reid Unruly Waters: A Social and Environmental History of the Brazos River . By Kenna Lang Archer . Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press , 2015 . 288 pp., $40.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-8263-5587-4. © 2016 Agricultural History Society 2016 Agricultural History...

...Jacob Ivey The Borders of Race in Colonial South Africa: The Kat River Settlement, 1829–1856 . By Robert Ross . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2015 . 364 pp., $32.99 , paperback, ISBN 978-1-1067-1657-8 . © 2017 Agricultural History Society 2017 Book Reviews 441...