...Jay H. Buckley William Dunbar: Scientific Pioneer of the Old Southwest . Arthur H. DeRosier Jr. . © 2009 Agricultural History Society 2009 2009 Book Reviews homeinNova Scotia;to fourgenerationosfpoorfarmfamilieswhomoved fromNew Englandto pointsacrosstheMidwest;to a fifty-year...

...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...

...Donald J. Pisani Acequia Culture: Water, Land, and Community in the Southwest . Jose A. Rivera . Copyright 2000 Agricultural History Society 2000 116 / Agricultural History another turning point, bringing tax-breaks and subsidies that encouraged wetland drainage, hedgerow removal...

...William D. Rowley Vision in the Desert: Carl Hayden and Hydropolitics in the American Southwest . Jack L. August Jr. . Copyright 2000 Agricultural History Society 2000 Book Reviews / 701 labor and nurturing for each group in the Blackland. Childhood, courtship, marriage, and children...

...René Trappel Negotiating Rural Land Ownership in Southwest China: State, Village, Family . By Yi Wu . Honolulu : University of Hawai’i Press , 2016 . 302 pp., $65.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-8248-4677-1 . © 2017 Agricultural History Society 2017 Book Reviews 431 practice...

...William D. Rowley Ranching, Endangered Species, and Urbanization in the Southwest . Nathan F. Sayre . Copyright 2003 Agricultural History Society 2003 628 / Agricultural History Ranching, Endangered Species, and Nathan F. Sayre. Tucson: University $48.00, cloth, ISBN 0-8165-2158-1...

...Cameron L. Saffell Abstract In an introduction to papers from the 2003 Agricultural History Society (AHS) symposium, the author discusses the need for international exchange and contributions to the scholarship of a cross-border region that some scholars call the "Greater Southwest." Monographs...

... over his active years in southern retailing. Moreover, Penney s decidedly rural orientation is reported largely as Penney and his closest partners saw things. There is still room in this extraordinary life for another biographer. Jeffrey Kolnick Southwest Minnesota State University Food Power: The Rise...

... an alfalfa boom on the American plains, especially in northern regions like South Dakota where Hansen worked. However, the effects of the growth of alfalfa were not limited to the Dakotas; they were also connected to and influenced another boom in the American Southwest. Moreover, in order to plant new...

...Kelly Houston Jones Abstract This essay attends to the work life of women on a plantation called Wagram, located on the Arkansas cotton frontier. Through an examination of this absentee-owned farm in one rugged corner of the Old Southwest, it uncovers women who faced challenges that differed from...

... Med? iterranean Plants and Foods Changed America, William W. Dunmire exam? ines the diffusion of Old World plants, gardens, agriculture, and cuisine in the New World, especially as it pertained to the US Southwest. Dunmire, a retired National Park Service naturalist, convincingly explains...

... teens and early twenties. McManus contends that the sustained period of drought and low prices in the 1930s culminated with the locusts and dust storms of 1937, to finally hammer home the lesson that should have been learned decades earlier: traditional farming methods did not apply to southwest...

... Shaoting.TranslatedbyMagnus Fiskesjo.Kunming: Yunnan Education PublishingHouse, 2001.560 pp.,pricenot available, hardback,ISBN 7-5415-1959-6. Although swidden agriculture inYunnan, southwest China, is part of the global tropical landscape, it is relatively unknown to outsiders due to poor documentation and language barriers...

... 9788776943134 . Copyright © 2024 the Agricultural History Society 2024 The editors of Fragrant Frontier have produced an impressively researched book on the contemporary growers, in northern Vietnam and Southwest China, of three spices—star anise, black cardamom, and cinnamon, each of which has local...

... , trans. John Galvin ( San Francisco : John Howell , 1967 ); Edward H. Spicer , Cycles of Conquest: The Impact of Spain, Mexico, and the United States on the Indians of the Southwest, 1533–1960 ( Tucson : University of Arizona Press , 1962 ); Paul H. Ezell , “History of the Pima...

... in 1904 as the commander of the colonial troops in the Herero War in German Southwest Africa. This oft-cited quote is part of the evidence used by a group of scholars of the German colonial empire to uncover connections between the violence in the overseas territories and the Nazi genocide to draw...

... Resistance in the Southwest (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1981 ), 42 David J. Weber , The Mexican Frontier, 1821–1846: The American Southwest Under Mexico (Albuquerque: University ofNew Mexico Press, 1982 ), 81 , 98, 193 8 Marc Simmons , Spanish Government in New...

... of his results with a wider audience through articles in the newly established Journal of Southwest Georgia History and the Dictionary of Georgia Biography. The most important venue for Jerry was the historical museum, however. As a professionally trained historian, Jerry brought high standards...

... with various forms of unfree labor, ranging from slavery to coolie labor to debt peonage. The southernization of the West meant that during the secession crisis in 1861 “as federal authority deteriorated across the continent, the Southwest had become a vast borderland of conflicting loyalties,” with some even...

... the Agricultural History Society 2022 A relative “newcomer” to a region of the Southwest where Latino families had farmed for over one hundred fifty years, David Stiller grew fascinated with the dualities that he observed in the San Luis Valley, carved at high altitude from the headwaters of the Rio Grande...