...Paul Christopher Anderson Slavery and the American South . Winthrop D. Jordan . Copyright 2006 Agricultural History Society 2006 112 / Agricultural History More worrisome is the lack of a thesis. Event after event occurs, trend after trend play themselves out, but rarely does...

...Ty M. Reese Slavery and the Economy of Sao Paulo, 1750-1850 . Francisco Vidal Luna and Herbert S. Klein . Copyright 2004 Agricultural History Society 2004 374 / Agricultural History observed contracting practices in agriculture. Most chapters closely follow papers previously...

...Nan Elizabeth Woodruff A Nation under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration . Steven Hahn . Copyright 2005 Agricultural History Society 2005 Book Reviews / 249 Jackson Hole airport. Her discussions of these topics are incisive...

...David B. Parker The Short Life of Free Georgia: Class and Slavery in the Colonial South . By Noeleen McIlvenna . Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press , 2016 . 158 pp., $24.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-1-4696-2403-7. © 2019 Agricultural History Society 2019 200...

...Michael F. Magliari Borderlands of Slavery: The Struggle over Captivity and Peonage in the American Southwest . By William S. Kiser . Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press , 2017 . 280 pp., $45.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-8122-4903-3. © 2019 Agricultural History Society...

...Ebony Jones Contested Bodies: Pregnancy, Childrearing, and Slavery in Jamaica . By Sasha Turner . Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press , 2017 . 328 pp., $45 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-8122-4918-7. © 2019 Agricultural History Society 2019 Book Reviews Latin America...

...Dexnell Peters Cul de Sac: Patrimony, Capitalism, and Slavery in French Saint-Domingue . By Paul Cheney . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 2017 . 264 pp., $40.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-2260-7935-6. © 2019 Agricultural History Society 2019 Book Reviews 551 Cul de Sac...

... of agroforestry. Turning the Tree Plantations of Slavery into Agroforests for Everyman: A Piece of Landscape History from Pemba Island, Zanzibar CHRISTOPHER A. CONTE This essay argues that agroforestry is deeply embedded in the history of tropical agriculture in the Indian Ocean basin. Drawing on the example...

...David Ryden A New World of Labor: The Development of Plantation Slavery in the British Atlantic . By Simon P. Newman . Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press , 2013 . 336 pp., $55.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-8122-4519-6 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2015 2015...

...Francis Danquah Commercial Agriculture, the Slave Trade, and Slavery in Atlantic Africa . Edited by Robin Law, Suzanne Schwarz, and Silke Strickrodt . Woodbridge : Boydell and Brewer , 2013 . 272 pp., $90.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-1-84701-075-9 . © the Agricultural History Society...

...Barbara Hahn Empire of Cotton: A Global History . By Sven Beckert . New York : Alfred A. Knopf , 2014 . 640 pp., $35.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-375-41414-5 . The Half has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism . By Edward E. Baptist . New York...

...William D. Bryan Between Slavery and Capitalism: The Legacy of Emancipation in the American South . By Martin Ruef . Princeton : Princeton University Press , 2014 . 304 pp., $35.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-691-16277-5. © 2016 the Agricultural History Society 2016 2016 Book...

...James Hill Welborn III Race Horse Men: How Slavery and Freedom Were Made at the Racetrack . By Katherine C. Mooney . Cambridge : Harvard University Press , 2014 . 336 pp., $35.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-674-28142-4 . © 2016 Agricultural History Society 2016 2016 Book Reviews...

...Kathleen Hilliard Seeds of Empire: Cotton, Slavery, and the Transformation of the Texas Borderlands, 1800–1850 . By Andrew J. Torget . Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press , 2015 . 368 pp., $34.95 , hardback, ISBN 978-1-4696-2424-2 . © 2017 Agricultural History...

...,” Agricultural History 44 (Oct. 1970 ): 379 – 92 ; Sven Beckert , Empire of Cotton: A Global History ( New York : Knopf , 2014 ); Christopher M. Florio , “From Poverty to Slavery: Abolitionists, Overseers, and the Global Struggle for Labor in India,” Journal of American History 102 (Mar...

...Alaine Hutson Slavery, Agriculture, and Malaria in the Arabian Peninsula . By Benjamin Reilly . Athens : Ohio University Press , 2015 . 222 pp., $28.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-0-8214-2182-6 . © 2017 Agricultural History Society 2017 Agricultural History and there were plenty...

...Connie L. Lester In Old Virginia: Slavery, Farming, and Society in the Journal of John Walker . Claudia L. Bushman . Copyright 2002 Agricultural History Society 2002 744 / Agricultural History always on "data-based assessments." Non-economists are likely to read each chapter...

...Robert Tracy McKenzie Reconstruction in the Cane Fields: From Slavery to Free Labor in Louisiana’s Sugar Parishes, 1862–1880 . John C. Rodrigue . Copyright 2002 Agricultural History Society 2002 Book Reviews / 703 Reconstruction in the Cane Fields: From Slavery to Free Labor...

... on the industrialization of food processing in theMid-Atlantic region. Gabriella M. Petrick New York University Slavery and American Economic Development. By Gavin Wright. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2006. 152 pp., $25.00, hard back, ISBN 0-8071-3183-0. In this slender volume Gavin Wright packs...

... to undermine slavery" (2). The ACS manumissions destabilized slav ery "with social, legal, political, and personal consequences thatwhite colo nizationists had not anticipated and could not control" even though "the number of ACS emancipations was not great" (15). Burin makes useful contributions in his...