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...Neil Clayton Abstract This paper examines the effectiveness of applied science in a case study of two aspects of livestock and human poisoning in New Zealand, from the earliest European contact in the 1770s through to the 1950s. It considers the role and value of government science first...

...Paul S. Sutter Notes from the Ground: Science, Soil, and Society in the American Countryside . By Benjamin R. Cohen . New Haven : Yale University Press , 2009 . 288 pp., $55.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-300-13923-5 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2011 2011 Agricultural...

...Jonathan Harwood Hybrid: The History and Science of Plant Breeding . By Noel Kingsbury . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 2009 . 512 pp., $35.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-226-437040-0 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2011 2011 Agricultural History Winter cooking...

...Kendra Smith-Howard Liquid Materialities: A History of Milk, Science, and the Law . By Peter Atkins . Burlington, VT : Ashgate , 2010 . 356 pp., $124.95 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-7546-7921-9 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2011 2011 2011 Book Reviews This volume...

...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...

... in the Douro region of Portugal was as much a product of soil, local farming traditions, and individual entrepreneurship as it was of modern state science and national politics for agricultural improvement. The unprecedented public projects of building a railroad and fighting phylloxera permanently changed...

...Mark D. Hersey Abstract Though they are often seen as foils for each other, ecology and agricultural science co-evolved. With shared roots in late nineteenth-century botany, ecologists and agronomists fostered important connections during the Progressive Era that have been largely overlooked...

... the Agricultural History Society, 2012 2012 NOTES 1. Thomas Gieryn , Cultural Boundaries of Science: Credibility on the Line ( Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 1999 ), 15 . In recent years, sociologists and historians of science have increasingly showed interest in a spatial approach...

...Donna C. Mehos The Floracrats: State-Sponsored Science and the Failure of the Enlightenment in Indonesia . By Andrew Goss . Madison : University of Wisconsin Press , 2011 . 264 pp., $26.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-0-299-24864-2 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2012 2012...

...Annie Potts Poultry Science, Chicken Culture: A Partial Alphabet . By Susan Merrill Squier . New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press , 2011 . 296 pp., $39.95 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-8135-4924-8 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2013 2013 2013 Book Reviews as possible...

...Thaddeus Sunseri Artemisia annua, Artemisinin, ACTs, & Malaria Control in Africa: Tradition, Science and Public Policy . By Dana G. Dalrymple . Washington, DC : Politics and Prose Bookstore , 2012 . 253 pp., $18.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-0-615-61599-8 . © the Agricultural...

... Agrargeschichte und Agrarsoziologie 44 : 2 ( 1996 ): 162 – 73 ; Klemm , Von der Königlichen Akademie des Landbaus in Möglin zur Landwirtschaftlich- Gärtnerischen Fakultät der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin ( Berlin : Humboldt-Universität , 1998 ). For broad perspectives on science and agriculture...

...Margaret E. Derry The conclusion provides overviews on breeding from a general and international point of view by using the Dutch example to show how science interacts with traditional breeding. In doing so, the author confirms that this book is more than a study of Dutch agriculture...

..., " Innovation, Science and the Farmer ," in Technology and Australia, 1788–1988 , ed. Russel T. Madigan (Melbourne: Australian Academy of Tech¬ nological Sciences and Engineering, 1988), 1 -70 Warwick Frost , "Farmers, Government, and the Environment: The Settlement of Australia’s Wet Frontier...

...Pete Daniel The Fire Ant Wars: Nature, Science, and Public Policy in Twentieth Century America . Joshua Blu Buhs . Copyright 2006 Agricultural History Society 2006 Book Reviews / 375 debate, the author observes that "cattlemen and ranchers in Lee County's rural eastern section wanted...

...Naomi R. Lamoreaux; Peter A. Coclanis Alan L. Olmstead and Paul W. Rhode , Arresting Contagion: Science, Policy, and Conflicts Over Animal Disease Control . (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2016). © 2019 Agricultural History Society 2019 NOTES 1. John Higham...

...Suman Seth American Tropics: The Caribbean Roots of Biodiversity Science . By Megan Raby . Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press , 2017 . 336 pp., $29.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-1-4696-3560-6. © 2019 Agricultural History Society 2019 548 Agricultural History ernment...

... of using overlapping biographies guards against abusing that power by privileging one voice over another. Above all, Catton is a master storyteller, and these are stories worth telling. Lawrence Hatter Washington State University The Politics of Scale: A History of Rangeland Science. By Nathan Sayre...

...Urmi Engineer Willoughby Book Reviews 763 Frontiers of Science: Imperialism and Natural Knowledge in the Gulf South Borderlands, 1500 1800. By Cameron B. Strang. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2018. 376 pp., $39.95, hardback, ISBN 978-1-4696-4047-1. Cameron Strang s Frontiers...

...Adam Romero Banned: A History of Pesticides and the Science of Toxicology . By Frederick Rowe Davis . New Haven : Yale University Press , 2014 . 288 pp., $40.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-300-20517-6 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2015 2015 Agricultural History Fall tion...