...Jim Norris Florida’s Working-Class Past: Current Perspectives on Labor, Race, and Gender from Spanish Florida to the New Immigration . Robert Cassanello and Melanie Shell-Weiss . © 2010 Agricultural History Society 2010 Agricultural History Fall Despite its flaws, there ismuch...

...Pamela Radcliff Why Democracy Failed: The Agrarian Origins of the Spanish Civil War . By James Simpson and Juan Carmona . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2020 . 316 pp., $29.99 paperback , ISBN 9781108487481. © 2021 Agricultural History Society 2021 Book Reviews 701...

...Juan J. Ponce-Vázquez Atlantic Africa and the Spanish Caribbean, 1570–1640 . By David Wheat . Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press , 2016 . 332 pp., $45.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-1-4696-2341-2 . © 2017 Agricultural History Society 2017 254 Agricultural History...

...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...

...Andrew Sluyter New Mexico's Spanish Livestock Heritage: Four Centuries of Animals, Land, and People . By William W. Dunmire . Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press , 2013 . 272 pp., $34.95 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-8263-5089-3 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2013 2013...

..., particularly American, feed manufacturers had on this growth. Oral histories offer insight into the microeconomic forces at work in the recent development of Spanish livestock farming and highlight the role of local entrepreneurs in the establishment of livestock agribusiness. © 2010 Agricultural History...

..., with important repercussions on their economies. The Spanish orange industry, however, continued to expand, despite the fact that a substantial percentage of Spanish oranges came from farms owned by (often illiterate) small peasants who, in comparison to the California growers, used a great deal of labor, small...

...Tomás Martínez Saldaña El Cerrito, New Mexico: Eight Generations in a Spanish Village . Richard L. Nostrand . Copyright 2005 Agricultural History Society 2005 Book Reviews El Cerrito, New Mexico: Eight Generations in a Spanish Village. By Rich? ard L. Nostrand. Norman: University...

...Fernando Collantes Abstract Prior to the mid-1960s, dairy products—one of the main carriers of the so-called nutritional transition—were not a major element in the Spanish diet. Through an analysis of the obstacles to the expansion of dairy consumption in the 1950s and early 1960s, this article...

...Susan E. Diggle; Louis A. Hieb Abstract Early Spanish colonists in regions of northern New Mexico and southern Colorado sought locations where irrigation works could be constructed to make new settlements possible. Between 1867 and 1872 four Hispanic villages, based on an economy of irrigation...

... nd ed. (San Diego: Academic Press, Inc, 1997 ), 1 -5. 2 Herbert E. Bolton , The Spanish Borderlands: A Chronicle of Old Florida and the Southwest (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1921 ). 3 John Francis Bannon , The Spanish Borderlands Frontier, 1513–1821...

... of the more affluent life styles offered by urban living and industrialization. Only when the economy boomed after World War II could Spain begin to converge with many of the more advanced European nations. The authors also explore why Spanish agriculture, which in the mid-twentieth century still employed...

... and explained its significance for land own? ership, land use, and commerce in Missouri. This detailed work draws upon Spanish, French, and American sources to interpret this most significant pe? riod of Missouri history. The book makes contributions to local, colonial, western, economic, agricultural...

... eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, Daniel Schafer has built on years of research to produce a finely detailed narrative of the life of Zephaniah Kingsley Jr., sea captain, Caribbean merchant, and Atlantic slave trader who became one of the most successful if unorthodox planters in Spanish East...

... ): 514 -36. 5 James Simpson , Spanish Agriculture: The Long Siesta, 1765-1965 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995 ); Domingo Gallego , " Historia de un Desarrollo Pausado: Integración Mercantil y Transformaciones Productivas de la Agricultura Española...

... the experiences of María Gertrudis de la Peña, an enslaved woman in Spanish society (169). He highlights Betty Powers, an enslaved woman of African descent who shared her recollections of the constant threat of sexual and whipping violence against women (251). Throughout this work, Barba deftly balances deeply...

... in Spanish West Florida, 1785–1810 ( Athens : University of Georgia Press , 2008 ). 7. Robin Fabel , The Economy of British West Florida, 1763–1783 ( Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press , 1988 ), 15 ; USDA, Natural Resources Conservation Service , Soil Survey of East and West...

... of the soil ended an industry that had flourished for two and one half centuries. Copyright 2004 Agricultural History Society 2004 Notes 1 C. H. Haring , The Spanish Empire in America (New York: Oxford University Press, 1947 ), 253 Herbert C. Morrow , "Valley Vineyards...

.... Stuart Banner has recovered this his? tory of law without law books and explained its significance for land own? ership, land use, and commerce in Missouri. This detailed work draws upon Spanish, French, and American sources to interpret this most significant pe? riod of Missouri history. The book makes...

... without taking it as a given. Gaining control of Natchez in 1779, the Spanish also proved intent on using African descent to justify slavery and drew distinctions of complexion by officially prohibiting colonists from enslaving Native Americans. While the Spanish regime differed from the French...