...Susan M. Squier Chicken . By Annie Potts . London : Reaktion Press , 2012 . 216 pp., $19.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-1-86189-858-6 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2012 2012 2012 Book Reviews as turning bees into soldiers and a skep beehive into a brass helmet...

...Annie Potts Poultry Science, Chicken Culture: A Partial Alphabet . By Susan Merrill Squier . New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press , 2011 . 296 pp., $39.95 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-8135-4924-8 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2013 2013 2013 Book Reviews as possible...

..., Chicken Culture: A Partial Alphabet. By Susan Merrill Squier. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2011. 296 pp., $39.95, hardback, ISBN 978-0-8135-4924-8. In the first few pages of Poultry Science, Chicken Culture, Susan Merrill Squier declares, chickens are good to think with (4). Her...

... our food and where/who it comes from. For Squier, intensive farming is problematic not only for those who consume meat or other products derived from factory-farmed animals, but also for those who manufacture this food: industrialization, as she explains, has separated today s farmers from...

... a future where we might meet the bird on its own terms. The book concludes with a timeline of the chicken, reminding us, perhaps, to take the longer view. Susan M. Squier Pennsylvania State University Asia Opium: Uncovering the Politics of the Poppy. By Pierre-Arnaud Chouvy. Cambridge: Harvard University...

...); Susan M. Squier , “Chicken Auguries,” Configurations: A Journal of Literature, Science, and Technology 14 ( Winter–Spring 2006 ): 69 – 86 ; Jane Adams , “Modernity and US Farm Women's Poultry Operations: Farm Women Nourish the Industrializing Cities, 1880–1940,” paper, 2002 , Yale...