...James Edward Scanlon The Planting of New Virginia: Settlement and Landscape in the Shenandoah Valley . Warren R. Hofstra . Copyright 2006 Agricultural History Society 2006 Book Reviews / 129 The Planting of New Virginia: Settlement and Landscape in the Shenan? doah Valley. By Warren R...

... into the extant population. This paper explores rural refugee settlement as a productive force on the domestic economy and examines its impact on the rural markets of Greece. It also investigates how a poor, war-weary country with a population barely over five million provided land and employment in a largely...

... on this agricultural frontier was cheap land and the cropping of broad acres using labor-saving cultivation and harvesting machinery. From the 1890s to the early 1920s, settlers successfully farmed the southern regions of the Mallee. In the 1920s settlement pushed north into drier regions, but settlers were allocated...

...Royden Loewen Promoters, Planters, and Pioneers: The Course and Context of Belgian Settlement in Western Canada . By Cornelius J. Jaenen . Calgary : University of Calgary Press , 2011 . 354 pp., $41.95 , paperback, 978-1-55238-258-5 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2012...

...Larry R. Peterson Women of the Northern Plains: Gender and Settlement on the Homestead Frontier, 1870–1930 . Barbara Handy-Marchello . Copyright 2007 Agricultural History Society 2007 Book Reviews Women of thNe orthernPlains:Genderand Settlemenotn theHomestead Frontier1, 870-1930...

...Jesús F. de la Teja The Spanish Settlement Landscapes of New Mexico, 1598–1680 . By Elinore M. Barrett . Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press , 2012 . 296 pp., $49.95 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-8263-5083-1 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2013 2013 Agricultural...

...Debby Banham Medieval Rural Settlement: Britain and Ireland, AD 800–1600 . Edited by Neil Christie and Paul Stamper . Oxford : Windgather Press , 2012 . 369 pp., $50.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-1-905119-42-4 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2013 2013 2013 Book Reviews even...

...David D. Vail Frontier Manhattan: Yankee Settlement to Kansas Town, 1854–1894 . By Kevin G. W. Olson . Lawrence : University Press of Kansas , 2012 . 284 pp., $29.95 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-7006-1832-3 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2014 2014 Agricultural History Summer...

...Jonathan Bell Agriculture and Settlement in Ireland . Edited by Margaret Murphy and Matthew Stout . Dublin : Four Courts Press , 2015 . 255 pp., €50.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-1-84682-507-1. © 2016 the Agricultural History Society 2016 Book Reviews Europe Agriculture...

...John C. Mitcham The Last Battle: Soldier Settlement in Australia, 1916–1939 . By Bruce Scates and Melanie Oppenheimer . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2016 . 272 pp., $54.99 , hardback, ISBN 978-1-1071-2506-3 . © 2017 Agricultural History Society 2017 Book Reviews...

...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...

... District, Minutes, Book II: Feb 4, 1941–Sept 4, 1945, 7 April 1942 House Committee, Hearings on H.R. 6522, 37 B. H. Kizer to P. Hetherton, 9 January 1942 Joint Investigations Correspondence, 1942–44, box 30 15 House Committee on Irrigation and Reclamation , Settlement of Returning...

... benefitted frommoreand bettermapsofboththeGermanhomelandand theMissouri settlements. In spiteofthesecriticismRs,obertFrizzellhasmadean importanctontributionto ourunderstandinogfEuropeanchainmigrationandto thesocial, economica,ndculturaaldjustmenptrocessofnineteenth-centuirmymigrants. Itis...

...Donald C. Jackson The Yuma Reclamation Project: Irrigation, Indian Allotment, and Settlement along the Lower Colorado River . Robert A. Sauder . © 2010 Agricultural History Society 2010 2010 Book Reviews for orange trees,Henry Sanford turned to indentured Swedish laborers to work his...

.... "Be Receptive to theGood Earth":Health, Nature, and Labor inCountercultural Back-to-the-Land Settlements RYAN H. EDGINGTON Modern environmental activists unified behind calls for a change in how humans understood theirrelationshipswith nature. Yet theyapproached theirconcerns througha varietyof historical...

...Steve Marti Fragile Settlements: Aboriginal Peoples, Law, and Resistance in South-West Australia and Prairie Canada . By Amanda Nettlebeck , Russell Smandych , Louis A. Knafla , and Robert Forest . Vancouver : UBC Press , 2016 . 223 pp., $37.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-0-7748...

... in the Pacific Ocean. When the Port Jackson settlement is viewed from this maritime perspective, it is apparent that agriculture was an imperial imperative of the Pitt administration. The design and early function of the settlement as a port of shelter and refreshment ensured that, despite initial despondency...

... to the Mallee ideas about the promise f science and the hopes of modernity. It championed particular ideas about agricultural development, settlement, and the role of female labor in carrying out the yeoman ideal of the small farmholding. Although the product of a specific time and place, it also tapped...

... settlement. This essay is part of the reappraisal of rangeland burning. It uses archival evidence from station diaries and memoirs to answer the questions of why the pastoralists burned, how often they burned, and when they burned. These sources show that burning was an important management tool...

...Paul Star; Tom Brooking Abstract Under British settlement, New Zealand’s export income became increasingly dependent upon new and improved pasture for sheep and cattle. While the introduction of familiar pasture plants--such as ryegrass and cocksfoot--was preferred, from the 1880s farmers also...