... staticbefore the introduction of the slave trade.Particularly meaningful is her ability to offer persuasive claims contradicting existing orthodoxies. On technology, for instance, she makes abundantly clear that theWest African coastal tillers' knowledge "was critical to the development of coastal land-use...

... context, especially Americans' long standing perceptions (and misperceptions) of theWest. A number of factors gave rise to right-wingextremism during the decades after 1970. The American defeat in theVietnam War, shiftinggender rela tions, expanded federal efforts to assist minority groups, and bleak eco...

...,a nonprofitconservationorganizationa,rguesthatthosedaysof conflictmaybe over.He examineshowranchersandenvironmentalisatrsecomingtogether to workoutcollaborativfe ormatrsegardingcattlegrazingin theWest. An optimistibcook,Revolutionon theRangeis a seriesofessaysabout individualswhoare managingrancheson privateand publiclandsin ways...

..., FRUS, 15:616; Thorsten V. Kalijarvi, May 27, 1957/1955-1957, FRUS, 15:630. "AgriculturaSltatecraft" intheCold War: A Case Study ofPoland and theWest from1945 to 1957 ROBERT MARK SPAULDING This paper examines how the riseand fall of Polish agricultureaffected the largerpolitical and economic...

..." to thebeginning of themodern economic era in theWest (191). Despite some minor inadequacies, including heavy emphasis on existing literature and unclear uses of the phrase, "coastal region," she lucidly high lights the relevance of agricultural technology in human development in bothAfrica and theWest. Santosh C...

... Zionist conspiracy. Older and more mainstream ideas have also, as the author explains, fueled right-wing extremism in theWest. Popular notions of the frontier,pioneers, small independent farmers, and the special mission ofAmerica are suffusedwith uncritical assumptions about the superiority of white male...

.... W. Higman. Jamaica: University of theWest Indies Press,2005. 450 pp., $65.00,hardback,ISBN 976-640-165-9. Barry Higman's many previous works have illuminated every aspect of the lives of the enslaved laborers on Jamaican plantations. In Plantation Ja maica, he turns to the experiences of free white...

... irrigation in theWest, but not drainage inMinnesota. "I can see no reason why the proceeds of the public lands remaining undisposed of in the State of Minnesota should not be devoted to drainage in likemanner as public lands in arid land states are devoted to reclamation by irrigation.The one method...

.... r example,at Minudie,in thewest,an eighteenth-centuartytemptto createa vasttenant estatehadechoesandconsequencesfarintothenineteentchenturye;lsewhere, notablyon backlandsin Cape Breton,therewereextensivecommunitieosf squatterAs.tthetopofthesocialscalewerelocalelitesl;eadingmerchantasnd farmerds...

... ofpropertyrightst,hewritingosfleadingadvocatesofrural"improvement," thestructuroefminingt,hesocioeconomichierarchyofruralNova Scotia, and thecultureand valuesofparticipantisn it. The regionencompassedvariedpropertyarrangementFso. r example,at Minudie,in thewest,an eighteenth-centuartytemptto createa vasttenant...

.... theDonnerPartythatresortedto cannibalismwhencaughtin theSierra Nevada MountainsB. ut,forthemostpart,Anglo-Americanisn theWest rarelywenthungry. arlTyhtreefniedltdhoaftfenocvuirseosnomn efnootadh-lisotfotreyhnaaspeanrctoicuurlaagrceodma mfaosdciint-yatainndsgcuhsoelsitto digdeeperintotheculturep; oliticaleconomya; nd labor...

..., credit, and necessary supplies. Government, they argued, could be part of the so lution. The narrative line and interpretation of The Populist Revolt were quickly absorbed into the progressive version of American history. Set in a moment when "theWest wore out and cheap lands were no longer available...

... The Ground water Foundation.Lincoln,Neb.: The GroundwaterFoundation,2005. 95 pp., $34.95,hardback,ISBN 0-9765058-0-0. InRainmakersA: PhotographicStoryof CenterPivots,thepicture-that speaks a thousand words-is rendered in a myriad of angles and settings that depict how theWest was trulywon: not by the gun...

.... W. Higman. Jamaica: University of theWest Indies Press,2005. 450 pp., $65.00,hardback,ISBN 976-640-165-9. Barry Higman's many previous works have illuminated every aspect of the lives of the enslaved laborers on Jamaican plantations. In Plantation Ja maica, he turns to the experiences of free white...

... standing perceptions (and misperceptions) of theWest. A number of factors gave rise to right-wingextremism during the decades after 1970. The American defeat in theVietnam War, shiftinggender rela tions, expanded federal efforts to assist minority groups, and bleak eco nomic conditions in farming areas...

... inclusion of them represents an important step toward integrating these fields. Pursell offers us numer ous examples of theways inwhich technologies have shaped the landscapes around us, from the forests and mines of theWest to the streets and water works ofmodern cities.His chapter on attempts in the 1960s...

... clear why groups to thewest would grow crops but Texas groups did not. Archaeologists do not know if the spread of domestic plants was due to local environmental conditions (wetter climates, better soils, or fewer backup resources) or to social conditions (population pressure). This is an important...

... the Mediterranean coast from the Sinai Peninsula to southernAnatolia, extend ing toMesopotamia in theEast and embracing Cyprus to theWest. Although mainly concerned with the period between 300 and 700 CE, the book has plenty to offer those interested inearlier periods of classical antiquity. The firsttwo chapters...

...-956528-3. Michael Decker's monograph examines late antique agriculture in the Roman diocese of Oriens, an administrative unit stretching along the Mediterranean coast from the Sinai Peninsula to southernAnatolia, extend ing toMesopotamia in theEast and embracing Cyprus to theWest. Although mainly...

... CenterPivots,thepicture-that speaks a thousand words-is rendered in a myriad of angles and settings that depict how theWest was trulywon: not by the gun, the plow, or the cow, but by thewheel, a circle to be more exact. A circle created on all sorts of hitherto in-arable spaces inHigh Plains states due to lack...