...Ella Howard A Mess of Greens: Southern Gender and Southern Food . By Elizabeth S. D. Engelhardt . Athens : University of Georgia Press , 2011 . 248 pp., $24.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-0-8203-3471-4 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2013 2013 Agricultural History Winter...

...Craig E. Colten Southern Water, Southern Power: How the Politics of Cheap Energy and Water Scarcity Shaped a Region . By Christopher J. Manganiello . Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press , 2015 . 320 pp., $39.95 , hardback, ISBN 978-1-4696-2005-3. © 2016 Agricultural...

...Warren C. Wood Pasadena Before the Roses: Race, Identity, and Land Use in Southern California, 1771–1890 . By Yvette J. Saavedra . Tucson : University of Arizona Press , 2018 . 280 pp., $45.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-8165-3553-8. © 2020 Agricultural History Society 2020 Book...

...Antonio Escobar Ohmstede From the Grounds Up: Building an Export Economy in Southern Mexico . By Casey Marina Lurtz . Stanford : Stanford University Press , 2019 . 296 pp., $65.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-1-5036-0389-9. © 2020 Agricultural History Society 2020 Book Reviews 301 ism...

...Andrew Slap [email protected] West of Slavery: The Southern Dream of a Transcontinental Empire . By Kevin Waite . Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press , 2021 . 392 pp., $29.95 , paperback, ISBN 978469663197 . Copyright © 2022 the Agricultural History Society 2022...

...A. Glenn Crothers Pharsalia: An Environmental Biography of a Southern Plantation, 1780-1880 . Lynn A. Nelson . © 2009 Agricultural History Society 2009 2009 Book Reviews Pharsalia:An EnvironmentaBl iographyofa SouthernPlantation,17801880.By LynnA. Nelson.Athens:UniversityofGeorgia...

...JASON MANTHORNE Abstract Having been evicted from their farms because of incentives created by the New Deal’s Agricultural Adjustment Act, sharecroppers in Arkansas formed the bir acial Southern Tenant Farmers’ Union (STFU) in 1934. Led by socialists and radicals, the organization ultimately...

...Nadine Vivier Common Land, Wine and the French Revolution. Rural Society and Economy in Southern France, c. 1789–1820 . Noelle Plack . © 2010 Agricultural History Society 2010 2010 Book Reviews impact.This continues through a chapter on consumption, which comprises an insightful look...

...Christopher Conz Abstract In 1924 the agricultural department in Lesotho, southern Africa, launched a demonstration program whereby local men performed rural outreach. Studies of agricultural demonstration in Africa and elsewhere have focused on the ways colonial and segregationist states deployed...

...E. Stanly Godbold, Jr. Southern Agrarians and the New Deal: Essays after I’ll Take My Stand . Emily S. Bingham and Thomas A. Underwood . Copyright 2002 Agricultural History Society 2002 622 / Agricultural History spouses. In its contribution to our knowledge and its implications...

...Ted Ownby The Rebuke of History: The Southern Agrarians and American Conservative Thought . Paul V. Murphy . Copyright 2002 Agricultural History Society 2002 Book Reviews / 623 economic model for America" (7). Good patriots during the hard times, they thought they were responding...

... attention to the agricultural history of the area. As a result, much about agricultural choices and rural life in the region remains unexplored, and our understanding remains incomplete. The story of bright tobacco in southern Appalachia serves as a reminder that some Appalachian farmers, rather than merely...

...Nathan Sanderson Prelude to the Dust Bowl: Drought in the Nineteenth-Century Southern Plains . By Kevin Z. Sweeney . Norman : University of Oklahoma Press , 2016 . 304 pp., $34.95 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-8061-5340-7 . © 2018 Agricultural History Society 2018 Book Reviews 279...

...Noeleen McIlvenna The Ashley Cooper Plan: The Founding of Carolina and the Origins of Southern Political Culture . By Thomas D. Wilson . Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press , 2016 . 320 pp., $34.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-1-4696-2628-4 . © 2017 Agricultural History...

...Brigid E. Vance Upriver Journeys: Diaspora and Empire in Southern China, 1570–1850 . By Steven B. Miles . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press , 2017 . 346 pp., $45.95 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-6749-7520-0 . © 2018 Agricultural History Society 2018 634 Agricultural History...

...Geoff Cunfer Abstract In 1936–1937 the US Soil Conservation Service conducted a reconnaissance survey of the Dust Bowl, the area of worst wind erosion on the southern Great Plains. Providing farm-level detail and covering twenty-six counties in five states—some twenty-seven million acres or forty...

...Warren Elofson Abstract This essay focuses on grasslands management techniques on the cattle ranches in the foothills of southern Alberta during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Contrary to opinions recently expressed by some scholars, it provides substantial evidence...

...Lynn A. Nelson Conserving Southern Longleaf: Herbert Stoddard and the Rise of Ecological Land Management . By Albert G. Way . Athens : University of Georgia Press , 2011 . 320 pp., $24.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-0-8203-4017-3 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2013 2013 2013...

... fully engaged, was quite different from the strain of Jim Crow in circulation in cities. © the Agricultural History Society, 2013 2013 NOTES 1. Poe hoped that anyone troubled by the implications of a policy separating blacks from whites —to American democracy or the southern economy—would...

...Matthew Hild The Roots of Southern Populism: Yeoman Farmers and the Transformation of the Georgia Upcountry, 1850-1890 . Steven Hahn . Copyright 2008 Agricultural History Society 2008 Reassessing The Roots of Southern Populism MATTHEW HILD-GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY The Roots...