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Across Forest, Steppe, and Mountain: Environment, Identity, and Empire in Qing China’s Borderlands

Mark E. Frank
Agricultural History (2018) 92 (3): 455–456.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3098/ah.2018.092.3.455
Published: 01 July 2018
...Mark E. Frank Across Forest, Steppe, and Mountain: Environment, Identity, and Empire in Qing China’s Borderlands . By David A. Bello . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2016 . 350 pp., $99.99 , hardback, ISBN 978-1-1070-6884-1 . © 2018 Agricultural History Society 2018...
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Beyond the Steppe Frontier: A History of the Sino-Russian Border

Martin T. Fromm
Agricultural History (2022) 96 (1-2): 310–312.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-9634763
Published: 01 May 2022
...Martin T. Fromm [email protected] Beyond the Steppe Frontier: A History of the Sino-Russian Border . By Sören Urbansky . Princeton : Princeton University Press , 2020 . 392 pp., $39.95 , hardback, ISBN 9780691181684. Copyright © 2022 the Agricultural History Society...
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The Plough that Broke the Steppes: Agriculture and Environment on Russia's Grasslands, 1700–1914

Jenny Leigh Smith
Agricultural History (2015) 89 (2): 319–320.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3098/ah.2015.089.2.319
Published: 01 April 2015
...Jenny Leigh Smith The Plough that Broke the Steppes: Agriculture and Environment on Russia's Grasslands, 1700–1914 . By David Moon . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2013 . 344 pp., £69.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-955643-4 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2015 2015 2015...
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The American Steppes: The Unexpected Russian Roots of Great Plains Agriculture, 1870s–1930s

Amanda Brickell Bellows
Agricultural History (2021) 95 (3): 549–551.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3098/ah.2021.095.3.549
Published: 01 July 2021
...Amanda Brickell Bellows The American Steppes: The Unexpected Russian Roots of Great Plains Agriculture, 1870s–1930s . By David Moon . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2020 . 352 pp., $120.00 , hardback, ISBN 9781107103603. © 2021 Agricultural History Society 2021 Book...
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Land for the People: The State and Agrarian Conflict in Indonesia

Peter Boomgaard
Agricultural History (2015) 89 (2): 317–319.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3098/ah.2015.089.2.317
Published: 01 April 2015
... chapter lengths. Maybe some room could have been found then for a small chapter discussing changes in landed tenure prior to the 1960s. Peter Boomgaard Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies (KITLV), Leiden, and University of Amsterdam The Plough that Broke the Steppes...
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Imagining Alfalfastan: Plant Exploration, Technopolitics, Colonialism, and the Environment in the American West and Russian Central Asia, 1897–1930

John B. Seitz
Agricultural History (2021) 95 (3): 444–471.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3098/ah.2021.095.3.444
Published: 01 July 2021
.... On the imperial period see David Moon, The American Steppes: The Unexpected Russian Roots of Great Plains Agriculture (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020). On the Soviet period and a Central Asian connection, see Maya K. Peterson, Pipe Dreams: Water and Empire in Central Asia’s Aral Sea Basin...
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Rethinking the Seeds of American Agricultural Exceptionalism

Peter A. Kopp
Agricultural History (2018) 92 (2): 266–270.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3098/ah.2018.092.2.266
Published: 01 April 2018
..., a German Mennonite who fundamentally transformed Kansas wheat farming in the closing decades of the nineteenth century. Warkentin s tale is fraught with displacement and migration, first from Germany to the Russian steppe, and then, because of further political and religious tension, to the American plains...
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Selling Empire: India in the Making of Britain and America, 1600–1830

Faisal Chaudhry
Agricultural History (2018) 92 (3): 452–455.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3098/ah.2018.092.3.452
Published: 01 July 2018
... of the narrative rather than any overtly tanta- Book Reviews 455 lizing analytical machinery. Regardless, for those interested in the history of British Empire and economy, Eacott s effort will offer a great deal. Faisal Chaudhry University of Arizona Asia Across Forest, Steppe, and Mountain: Environment, Identity...
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For God and Revolution: Priest, Peasant, and Agrarian Socialism in the Mexican Huasteca

Jim Norris
Agricultural History (2015) 89 (2): 320–321.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3098/ah.2015.089.2.320
Published: 01 April 2015
... of the Russian steppes provides a parallel to the better-known stories of the Canadian and United States prairie ecosystem. Moon s work is not explicitly comparative, which might prevent it from appealing to a broader audience, but his book is an impressive, exquisitely researched monograph on a subject...
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Millennial Landscape Change in Jordan: Geoarchaeology and Cultural Ecology

Alan Mikhail
Agricultural History (2009) 83 (1): 112–113.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-83.1.112
Published: 01 January 2009
... and over ten tables. The problem of landscape reconstruction is the crux of this book. When and where in the geographical area defined by themodern polity of Jordan were there forests,steppes, deserts, and grasslands, and how and why did these landscapes change over time? To get at themultivalent levels...
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Agricultural Sustainability and Environmental Change at Ancient Gordion

Aaron L. Beek
Agricultural History (2018) 92 (2): 274–275.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3098/ah.2018.092.2.274
Published: 01 April 2018
... species used in charcoal consumption, while Chapter Five turns to agricultural exploitation and expansion. Marston Book Reviews 275 detects a shift from juniper to pine and oak as sources of wood fuel in the Late Phrygian-Roman period, a period also marked by heavy overgrazing in steppe grasslands...
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Two Years in Russia: 1925–1927, a Joint Venture in a Soviet Village

Karen Petrone
Agricultural History (2001) 75 (1): 130–132.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-75.1.130
Published: 01 January 2001
... of the pre-revolutionary middle-classes, now fearful of Soviet authorities, and the adventures of life on the Caucasian steppe. Anne Borders' memoir is as much about childhood as it is about Russia. The volume would have been enriched by a more detailed introduction that placed the memoirs in the broader...
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Empire and Environment in the Making of Manchuria

Kwangmin Kim
Agricultural History (2019) 93 (1): 189–191.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3098/ah.2019.093.1.189
Published: 01 January 2019
... examples being Jonathan Schlesinger s A World Trimmed with Fur: Wild Things, Pristine Places, and the Natural Fringes of Qing Rule (2017) and David A. Bello s Across Forest, Steppe, and Mountain: Environment, Identity, and Empire in Qing China s Borderlands (2016). What makes this book distinctive is its...
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Farming across Borders: A Transnational History of the North American West

Casey Walsh
Agricultural History (2020) 94 (4): 677–679.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3098/ah.2020.094.4.677
Published: 01 October 2020
... Plains Steppe eco-region. Taking a constructivist turn, Peter Morris shows that while the foothills of the Rocky Mountains share environmental conditions across the Canada-U.S. border, differing processes of colonization and nation-building have led to quite disparate cultural imaginations...
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The Herds Shot Round the World: Native Breeds and the British Empire, 1800–1900

Brett Bannor
Agricultural History (2018) 92 (2): 275–277.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3098/ah.2018.092.2.275
Published: 01 April 2018
... Book Reviews 275 detects a shift from juniper to pine and oak as sources of wood fuel in the Late Phrygian-Roman period, a period also marked by heavy overgrazing in steppe grasslands. Significant transformations also occurred in the raising of secondary crops such as bitter vetch, which is a drought...
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Hoboes, Wheat, and Climate Precarity, 1870–1922

Robert Suits
Agricultural History (2023) 97 (1): 1–47.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-10154297
Published: 01 February 2023
...’ Steppes.” See also Fullilove, Profit of the Earth , 99–138 ; Olmstead and Rhode, Creating Abundance . 26. See Cronon, Nature's Metropolis ; Fiege, Irrigated Eden ; Worster, Dust Bowl . See also (especially) K. Brown, “Gridded Lives.” 27. Kaufman and Kaufman, “Wildlife...
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Searching for the Soviet Dream: Prosperity and Disillusionment on the Soviet Seattle Agricultural Commune, 1922–1927

Seth Bernstein, Robert Cherny
Agricultural History (2014) 88 (1): 22–44.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3098/ah.2014.88.1.22
Published: 01 January 2014
... before Nelson arrived, the Seattle Commune was roughly one hundred fifty miles southeast of Rostov-na-Donu, deep in the Russian steppe. Its members were mostly leftist Finnish Americans from the Pacific Northwest, many of whom had come to the United States from the Russian empire. Nelson corresponded...
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Bread or Iron? Competing Visions of American Aid to Soviet Russia, 1921–1923

Maria Fedorova
Agricultural History (2023) 97 (2): 245–272.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-10337951
Published: 01 May 2023
...,” Banker Farmer , December 1, 1917. 25. “Farm Papers and the War,” Wallace's Farmer , March 1, 1918. 26. “Food the Vital Problem of War,” Daily Illinois , March 6, 1918. 27. Moon, American Steppes , 58–62 . 28. “Foreign Competition,” Wallace's Farmer , December 5, 1919...
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Some Like It Hot: Mediterranean Societies at the End of the Little Ice Age

Andrea E. Duffy
Agricultural History (2020) 94 (2): 176–204.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3098/ah.2020.094.2.176
Published: 01 April 2020
..., they witnessed the conversion of traditional pasturelands, including prime grazing grounds on the Crau steppe near Arles and the marshy Camargue, to orchards and agricultural fields. Over the course of the century, farmers adapted to warmer, drier conditions and volatile weather through the construction...
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The Second Hungarian Conquest of the Carpathian Basin: High Modernism and the Ecological Crisis in the Eastern Half of the Habsburg Empire during the Nineteenth Century

Viktor Pál
Agricultural History (2024) 98 (1): 50–70.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-10910303
Published: 01 February 2024
... composition, water-level conditions, and the variation of the vegetation as well as the alternation of climate. Arid grasslands grew in size, and a larger proportion of Eastern Hungary began to resemble the dry, Eastern European steppe region that occupies a significant portion of Ukraine, southern Russia...
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