...Brady Banta Mule South to Tractor South: Mules, Machines, and the Transformation of the Cotton South . George Ellenberg . © 2010 Agricultural History Society 2010 2010 BookReviews MuleSouthtoTractorSouth:Mules,Machinesa,nd theTransformatiofnthe CottonSouth.By GeorgeEllenbergT...

.... Wilson J. Warren Western Michigan University Leisure, Plantations, and the Making of a New South: The Sporting Plantations of the South Carolina Lowcountry and Red Hills Region, 1900 1940. Edited by Julia Brock and Daniel Vivian. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2015. 222 pp., $85.00, hardback, ISBN 978-0-7391...

...Tore C. Olsson Bulldozer Revolutions: A Rural History of the Metropolitan South . By Andrew Baker . Athens : University of Georgia Press , 2018 . 237 pp., $59.95 , hardcover, ISBN 9-780-8203-5414-9. © 2020 Agricultural History Society 2020 168 Agricultural History Bulldozer...

...Kelly Kean Sharp Abstract Agricultural and environmental historians of the US South have in the last three decades focused on planters’ engagement with scientific pursuits as a means toward financial and environmental improvement. But in focusing on these failed attempts of conservation husbandry...

...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...

... South: Two Centuries of Catastrophe, Risk, and Resilience. Edited by Cindy Ermus. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2018. 216 pp., $45.00, hardback, ISBN 978-0-8071-6710-6. The Gulf South is widely recognized as a disaster-prone region. Encompassing the states of Texas, Louisiana...

... Southern University 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. Book Reviews 201 In her first book, A Very Mutinous People (2009), Noeleen McIlveena...

... masterfully. Tina Stewart Brakebill Illinois State University Hog Meat and Hoecake: Food Supply in the Old South, 1840 1860. By Sam Bowers Hilliard. 1972. Reprint. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2014. 312 pp., $28.95, paperback, ISBN 978-0-82034676-2. Like most truly prescient works, James C. Cobb...

...Evan P. Bennett A Golden Weed: Tobacco and Environment in the Piedmont South . By Drew A. Swanson . New Haven : Yale University Press , 2014 . 360 pp., $45.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-300-19116-5 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2015 2015 Agricultural History Fall...

...John Hayes Trouble in Goshen: Plain Folk, Roosevelt, Jesus, and Marx in the Great Depression South . By Fred C. Smith . Jackson : University Press of Mississippi , 2014 . 224 pp., $60.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-1-61073-956-0 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2015 2015...

...Charles J. Holden Sharing the Prize: The Economics of the Civil Rights Revolution in the American South . By Gavin Wright . Cambridge : Harvard University Press , 2013 . 368 pp., $35.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-674-04933-8 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2015 2015 2015...

...Angela Lakwete Red, White, and Black Make Blue: Indigo in the Fabric of Colonial South Carolina Life . By Andrea Feeser . Athens : University of Georgia Press , 2013 . 168 pp., $24.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-0-8203-4553-6 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2015 2015...

...Tore Olsson The Larder: Food Studies Methods from the American South . Edited by John T. Edge, Elizabeth Engelhardt, and Ted Ownby . Athens : University of Georgia Press , 2013 . 344 pp., $24.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-0-8203-4555-0 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2015 2015...

...Judkin Browning Agriculture and the Confederacy: Policy, Productivity, and Power in the Civil War South . By R. Douglas Hurt . Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press , 2015 . 364 pp., $45.00 , paperback, ISBN 978-1-4696-2001-5. © 2016 Agricultural History Society 2016...

...Timothy J. Shaffer The Farm Security Administration and Rural Rehabilitation in the South . By Charles Kenneth Roberts . Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press , 2015 . 376 pp., $51.75 , hardback, ISBN 978-1-62190-161-7. © 2016 Agricultural History Society 2016 2016 Book...

... challenged this status by achieving meaningful degrees of economic and social stability in the antebellum South. This essay examines such a group—a segment of free black farmers in the rural parishes surrounding Charleston, South Carolina, whose farming strategies, production, and rural lives were quite...

...Ted Ownby Dixie Highway: Road Building and the Making of the Modern South, 1900–1930 . By Tammy Ingram . Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press , 2014 . 272 pp., $29.95 , hardback, ISBN 978-1-4696-1298-0 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2015 2015 Agricultural...

...John F. Kvach The Merchants' Capital: New Orleans and the Political Economy of the Nineteenth-Century South . By Scott P. Marler . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2013 . 327 pp., $95.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-521-89764-8 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2015 2015...

...Timothy Johnson Stinking Stones and Rocks of Gold: Phosphate, Fertilizer, and Industrialization in Postbellum South Carolina . By Sheperd W. McKinley . Gainesville : University Press of Florida , 2014 . 242 pp., $69.95 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-8130-4924-3 . © the Agricultural...

...Brenden Kennedy De Bow's Review: The Antebellum Vision of a New South . By John F. Kvach . Lexington : University Press of Kentucky , 2013 . 280 pp., $50.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-8131-4420-7 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2015 2015 2015 Book Reviews vironmental...