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...E. Stanly Godbold, Jr. In Memoriam: Roy Vernon Scott, December 26, 1927 August 24, 2021 Roy Vernon Scott, William L. Giles Distinguished Professor of History Emeritus, died on August 24, 2021, at age 93. Born on December 26, 1927, he grew up on his family s farm in Greene County, Illinois, and he...

...Kelly Kean Sharp Catfish Dream: Ed Scott’s Fight for His Family Farm and Racial Justice in the Mississippi Delta . By Julian Rankin . Athens : University of Georgia Press , 2018 . 160 pp., $24.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-0-8203-5359-3. © 2020 Agricultural History Society 2020 314...

...John E. Lee, Jr.; Roy V. Scott INTRODUCTION JOHN E. LEE JR. ROY V. SCOTT Some thirty years ago, the Agricultural History Society began a series of symposia devoted to selected areas or aspects of American agricultural his? tory. The first of the series, which dealt with eighteenth-century farming...

...Susan Scott Parrish The Untilled Garden: Natural History and the Spirit of Conservation in America, 1740–1840 . By Richard W. Judd . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2009 . 330 pp., $25.99 , paperback, ISBN 978-0-521-72984-0 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2011...

...Scott P. Marler Abstract Although the importance of country stores to the economy of the post–Civil War South has long been widely acknowledged, by far the most careful and influential analysis of rural merchants is Ransom and Sutch's One Kind of Freedom (1977), which used mostly region-wide data...

...Lyn Ellen Bennett; Scott Abbott Abstract This article examines the copious and creative advertisements various manufacturers employed to sell barbed wire in the decades after its invention. Barbed-wire poems, posters, trade cards, almanacs, and fliers constructed layers of meaning for the new fence...

...Scott E. Giltner A New Plantation World: Sporting Estates in the South Carolina Lowcountry, 1900–1940 . By Daniel J. Vivian . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2018 . 358 pp. $59.99 , hardback, ISBN 978-1-1084-1690-0. © 2020 Agricultural History Society 2020 Book...

...Scott J. Peters Abstract Historians have portrayed the formative period of agricultural extension work in the United States as a search for the best method of convincing farmers to change their farming practices in order to improve agricultural efficiency, productivity, and profitability. However...

...Scott J. Peters; Paul A. Morgan Abstract Theodore Roosevelt charged his 1908 Country Life Commission with looking into the deficiencies of agriculture and country life and the means by which they might be remedied. Though some scholars have judged it a positive milestone in American agricultural...

...Scott J. Peters 2010 Book Reviews state of the book's editors) or organic farmingaremore useful, but again suf fer frombeing scattered and relatively superficial. The editors' introduction isnot helpful in this respect, because itmerely briefly reviews some recent issues and policy measures...

...Scott P. Marler © the Agricultural History Society, 2015 2015 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 . Agricultural...

...Scott Moore Eating Nature in Modern Germany: Food, Agriculture, and Environment, c. 1870 to 2000 . By Corinna Treitel . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2017 . 402 pp., $120.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-1-2091-8802-0 . © 2018 Agricultural History Society 2018 448...

...Scott J. Peters Michigan Agricultural College: The Evolution of a Land-Grant Philosophy, 1855–1925 . Keith R. Widder . Copyright 2007 Agricultural History Society 2007 Agricultural History Spring slaves challenged and satirized white attire. Through their own rituals of dancing...

...Mark B. Tauger Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States . By James C. Scott . New Haven : Yale University Press , 2017 . 336 pp., $26.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-300-18291-0 . © 2018 Agricultural History Society 2018 1. On some of the problems with his...

...Elizabeth S. Manley In the final chapter, “Burning Privilege,” Scott returns directly to Panama to analyze the place of hotels in the anticolonial struggles of the 1960s and 1970s. Specifically he centers the Hotel Tivoli, one of the targets of a several-day protest in the Panama Canal Zone...

...Jon Lauck Copyright 2007 Agricultural History Society 2007 From Prairie Farmer to Entrepreneur: The Transformation of Midwestern Agriculture . Dennis S. Nordin and Roy V. Scott . Agricultural History Spring not always persuasive. For instance, the argument against an economic...

... are valuable contributions that deserve the attention of any scholar interested in agricultural practices and human-animal relationships in both the past and present. Frank Whitehead University of Arizona Catfish Dream: Ed Scott s Fight for His Family Farm and Racial Justice in the Mississippi Delta. By Julian...

... Farmer to Entrepreneur: The Transformation of Midwestern Agriculture. By Dennis S. Nordin and Roy V. Scott. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2005. 376 pp., $65.00, hardback, ISBN 0-253- 34571-5. The Midwest is still considered the American breadbasket, but the structure of farming has changed...

... Steam Locomotives: History and Development of Steam Power Since 1900 (Waukesha, Wise: Kalmbach, 1993), 300. 3 IC, Organization and Traffic of the Illinois Central System. 4 Roy V. Scott, Railroad Development Programs in the Twentieth Century (Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1985). 5...