... larger argument condemn the book to irrelevance. On the contrary, Dunlap has succeeded in opening?or perhaps re-opening?an important de? bate, and his book will serve as a valuable point of reference as that debate unfolds. Jordon Kleiman State University ofNew York, Geneseo Vaquero: Genesis ofthe Texas...

... and the villagers of Stavenow strove tough-mindedly to secure their own economic advantages, which is what they had done under changing conditions over the previous three centuries. Marion W. Gray Western Michigan University / Would Rather Sleep in Texas: A History ofthe Lower Rio Grande & the People ofthe Santa...

...Glen Sample Ely Frontier Texas: History of a Borderland to 1880 . Robert F. Pace and Donald S. Frazier . Copyright 2006 Agricultural History Society 2006 262 / Agricultura] History nothing about entertainments in which he and his acquaintances participated together. The editorial...

... Press, 1999 ), 12 Neil Foley , The White Scourge: Mexicans, Blacks, and Poor Whites in Texas Cotton Culture (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997 ), 83 -84 Valerie Grim, "The Impact of Mechanized Farming on Black Farm Families in the Rural South: A Study of Farm Life...

... and especially water, a resource in short supply on the semi-arid prairies of Texas and Alberta. Larger ranchers and cattle syndicates resented the challenge posed by the settlers and feared the competition for water and grass. Supported by officials in Austin and Ottawa--who favored rapid industrial development...

...Ricky Floyd Dobbs Harder than Hardscrabble: Oral Recollections of the Farming Life from the Edge of the Texas Hill Country . Thad Sitton . Copyright 2005 Agricultural History Society 2005 494 / Agricultural History "When you arrived, we had the land and you had the Bible. Now you have...

...Monica R. Gisolfi Texas, Cotton, and the New Deal . Keith J. Volanto . Copyright 2007 Agricultural History Society 2007 2007 Book Reviews with those of others and who are strong, vigorous and co-operative actors in their communities and ecosystems" (24). Turner writes, in the preface...

...Debra A. Reid Abstract "African American Farmers and Land Loss in Texas," surveys the ways that discrimination at the local, state, and national levels constrained minority farmers during the twentieth century. It considers the characteristics of small-scale farming that created liabilities...

...Stephanie Carpenter Fertile Ground, Narrow Choices: Women on Texas Cotton Farms, 1900-1940 . Rebecca Sharpless . Copyright 2000 Agricultural History Society 2000 Book Reviews Fertile Ground, Narrow Choices: Women on Texas Cotton Farms, 19001940. By Rebecca Sharpless. Chapel Hill...

...Jim Norris Claiming Rights and Righting Wrongs in Texas: Mexican Workers and Job Politics during World War II . By Emilio Zamora . College Station : Texas A&M University Press , 2009 . 336 pp., $60.00 , hardback, ISBN 987-1-60344-066-0; $27.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-1-60344-097...

...Learotha Williams Jr. And Grace Will Lead Me Home: African American Freedmen Communities of Austin, Texas, 1865–1928 . By Michelle M. Mears . Lubbock : Texas Tech University Press , 2009 . 256 pp., $45.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-89672-654-3 . © the Agricultural History Society...

...Amy Lauters As a Farm Woman Thinks: Life and Land on the Texas High Plains, 1890–1960 . By Nellie Witt Spikes . Edited by Geoff Cunfer . Lubbock : Texas Tech University Press , 2010 . 288 pp., $34.95 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-89672-710-6 . © the Agricultural History Society...

...Jahue Anderson Abstract This is the story of failure: in this case, an irrigation project that never met its boosters' expectations. Between 1880 and 1930 Wichita Falls entrepreneur Joseph Kemp dreamed of an agrarian Eden on the Texas rolling plains. Kemp promoted reclamation and conservation...

...Sam W. Haynes Los Brazos de Dios: A Plantation Society in the Texas Borderlands, 1821–1865 . By Sean M. Kelley . Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press , 2010 . 282 pp., $42.50 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-8071-3687-4 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2012 2012 2012...

...Sean Kelley Nassau Plantation: The Evolution of a Texas German Slave Plantation . By James C. Kearney . Denton : University of North Texas Press , 2010 . 368 pp., $25.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-1-57441-326-7 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2012 2012 Book Reviews North...

...David Blanke By All Accounts: General Stores and Community Life in Texas and Indian Territory . By Linda English . Norman : University of Oklahoma Press , 2013 . 268 pp., $29.95 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-8061-4352-1 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2015 2015 Agricultural...

...Angela Shope Stiefbold The planning and boosterism that accompanied the expansion of Texas's metropolitan areas are addressed in several chapters. Tom McKinney tells the story of the Texas Highway Department's engineer-managers who oversaw the urban highway planning that facilitated...

... to consider in this work of Texas history, transcultural and borderlands history, and slavery history. The sheer range of historical voices in this volume constitutes one of the book's main strengths. Drawing on the advice of Saidiya Hartman's Scenes of Subjection (1997), Barba prioritizes the often...

...David Cullen dcullen@atu.edu The People's Revolt: Texas Populists and the Rise of American Liberalism . By Gregg Cantrell . New Haven : Yale University Press , 2020 . 592 pp., $40.00 , hardback, ISBN 9780300100976. Copyright © 2022 the Agricultural History Society 2022...

...Keith Volanto Cotton and Conquest: How the Plantation System Acquired Texas . By Roger G. Kennedy . Norman : University of Oklahoma Press , 2013 . 352 pp., $34.95 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-8061-4346-0 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2015 2015 Agricultural History Summer...