...Thomas L. Charlton Los Alamos: The Ranch School Years, 1917-1943 . John D. Wirth and Linda Harvey Aldrich . Copyright 2006 Agricultural History Society 2006 364 / Agricultural History study. However, he goes far beyond that more narrow focus and provides us with an extremely good...

...Clair W. Keller The Emergence of the Common School in the U.S. Countryside . Donald H. Parkerson and Jo Ann Parkerson . Copyright 2000 Agricultural History Society 2000 Book Reviews / 111 selves pro or con in each campaign, along with whether their framing process succeeded...

...Jeff Charles Free for All: Fixing School Food in America . By Janet Poppendieck . Berkeley : University of California Press , 2010 . 368 pp., $17.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-0-520-26988-0 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2011 2011 2011 Book Reviews Societies, working...

...Thomas Burnell Colbert There Goes the Neighborhood: Rural School Consolidation at the Grass Roots in Early Twentieth-Century Iowa . David R. Reynolds . Copyright 2001 Agricultural History Society 2001 Book Reviews / 499 during shift in perspective. Corporate dominance, with its "get...

...Karla Ekquist The Rapid City Indian School, 1898–1933 . Scott Riney . Copyright 2001 Agricultural History Society 2001 Book Reviews / 249 Texans coveted houses seen on neighboring streets and in national magazines and used them as marks of growing affluence. Instead of scrutinizing...

...Nicholas J. P. Williams Eating to Learn, Learning to Eat: The Origins of School Lunch in America . By A. R. Ruis . New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2017. 220 pp., $29.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-0-81358407-2. © 2019 Agricultural History Society 2019 374 Agricultural...

...Steven M. Nolt Train up a Child: Old Order Amish and Mennonite Schools . Karen M. Johnson-Weiner . Copyright 2008 Agricultural History Society 2008 Agricultural History Summer additional themes. Regarding gender, for instance, the role of married women in the family economy of Plains...

...George Kritikos Abstract This study analyzes the proliferation of agricultural schools in Greece from 1922 to 1932 from a social, economic, and cultural perspective. It examines the role of the Greek vernacular language—demotic—and vernacular education as tools for national and social integration...

... linked to Morelos by establishing or extending ejidos, taking forest conservation measures, establishing water juntas to oversee irrigation, and establishing rural schools. Yet rather than submitting to top-down control, rural Morelos s alliance with the federal government made the pueblos more...

... Reviews 551 undoubtedly prompt further research on US Russian relations and the two countries linked environmental histories in the years ahead. Amanda Brickell Bellows The New School Maroon Nation: A History of Revolutionary Haiti. By Johnhenry Gonzalez. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2019. 320 pp...

... reading lists. Neil Oatsvall Arkansas School for Mathematics, Sciences and the Arts Producing Predators: Wolves, Work, and Conquest in the Northern Rockies. By Michael D. Wise. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2016. 216 pp., $45.00, hardback, ISBN 978-0-8032-4981-3. Michael Wise offers vital insight...

.... The Cigarette is a deeply researched intervention into subfields such as agriculture, public health, law, and business. Scholars searching for power in the twentieth century, particularly in the countryside, should take note. Patrick Mulford O Connor The Putney School Landscape of Migration: Mobility...

...). Bitar raises important questions about useful fictions, and how prescriptive diet advice offers the stories that people live by, eat with, believe in, and act on (161). Michael S. Kideckel The Hewitt School Baking Powder Wars: The Cutthroat Food Fight that Revolutionized Cooking. By Linda Civitello...

... to allow school attendance balanced two positives for farm children--education and work. Restricting child labor in industrialized agriculture simply recognized its divergence from the family farm ideal. Reformers succeeded modestly along this dual track by the 1930s. The boundaries of the agrarian...

... critiques from ordinary farmers who accused them of having little experience in working the land for a living. Reformers also envisioned that agricultural schools attached to pattern farms could instruct farmers in scientific agriculture, thus transforming them from ignorant commoners to enlightened...

... evidence that America's pastime was neither born in the United States nor was a product of rural life. But in their zeal to debunk the myth of baseball's rural beginnings, historians have fallen prey to what Annales School founder Marc Bloch famously called the “idol of origins,” and all but neglected...

...Melissa Walker Abstract The vast majority of new PhDs will spend their academic lives at regional universities, liberal arts colleges, and even two-year schools, where the primary focus is on excellence in teaching, and the service load is heavy. In that environment, maintaining a scholarly life...

... and rural school consolidation in four midwestern farm newspapers provides an illustrative case study of this interaction. While publishers and editors promoted reformers’ recommendations, many farmers did not agree with or follow their advice. As a result, farm newspapers are better seen not as expressing...