...Macabe Keliher A World Trimmed with Fur: Wild Things, Pristine Places, and the Natural Fringes of Qing Rule . By Jonathan Schlesinger . Stanford : Stanford University Press , 2017 . 288 pp., $65.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-8047-9996-6. © 2019 Agricultural History Society 2019...

...Nancy Cushing All Things Harmless, Useful, and Ornamental: Environmental Transformations through Species Acclimatization, from Colonial Australia to the World . By Pete Minard . Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press , 2019 . 208 pp. $32.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-1-469-65161-3...

...Simon M. Evans Abstract The Hutterites are a German speaking religious sect. They live communally, holding “all things common.” This characteristic separates them from the Mennonites and the Amish, with whom they share a common Anabaptist tradition. The Hutterites have resisted assimilation...

..., places, and things, and to add new layers of meaning to objects, thus allowing women to act as custodians in addition to creators. © 2018 Agricultural History Society 2018 Notes 1. Historical Atlas of the County of Wellington, Ontario, Compiled, Drawn and Published from Personal...

... rather obvious point is that the study of material things in agricultural history is not terribly new. I think that there are three things that distinguish recent efforts to rematerialize agricultural history. The key analytical move is a recasting of organisms and nonliving things, transforming them...

... certainly done better than most historical subfields in terms of recognizing the importance of the material world. Historians of agriculture have long known that things like drought, soil, selective breeding, insects, fungi, farm implements, agricultural outbuildings, and the like have shaped the fortunes...

..., following along that, since I was new to Iowa, one of the first things I did was pull out the Census of Agriculture and the Census of Economic Conditions and started looking at existing secondary data and it became fairly obvious to me . . . that the go-go years of the 1970s were coming to an end. And so I...

... materialist worldview. 4 The consequences of such an ontological shift are profound. New materialists such as Jane Bennett would have us accede to things—foods, commodities, agrochemicals, genetically modified seeds—“their due” as active rather than passive constructors of the (one) world that we all...

... are embedded in the nonhuman world. This is more than saying that nonhuman forces shape history, more than merely saying that an earthquake or typhoon can shape human events. Rather, it is the view that all sorts of things we take to be fundamentally human or social—things like capitalism or colonialism—become...

... physical environment that we modify through culturally determined behavior .” Deetz , In Small Things Forgotten: The Archeology of Early American Life ( Garden City, NY : Anchor Books , 1977 ), 24 , italics original. I use the terms object and artifact interchangeably in this essay. Lucien...

..., I got to watch what really happened in an academic chemistry laboratory. The thing that I disliked, the thing that gave me pause, was that the head of the lab?the faculty member in chemistry?never actually went into the lab. That person spent the days talking with various grad students and postdocs...

... that engage symbolic culture and the interactions of people with one another, as well as their built surroundings and nonworldly personages. In this imagining, Cahokia s complexities are gradually revealed through assemblages of things in locations it administered away from ceremonial centers. The Grossmann...

...Andrew C. Baker Works Cited Bennett Jane . Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2010 . Burt Tim , and Thompson Des , eds. Curious about Nature: A Passion for Fieldwork . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press...

... Scott Jenkins , The Lawn: A History of an American Obsession ( Washington, DC : Smithsonian Institution , 1994 ). 5. For examples of “following,” see, for example, Arjun Appadurai , ed., The Social Life of Things: Commodities in Cultural Perspective ( Cambridge : Cambridge University...

...." In the new agricultural education, Bailey said,"We do things rather than talk about things." Teaching is approached through "objectlessons," allowing and encouraging personal contact between student and teacher, and student and student. Good teaching also required engagement with the world beyond the campus...

... avenues of inquiry for the history of capitalism. He highlights the protean nature of american capitalism and the different forms it takes. capitalism, in the end, is not one thing. it is many things with many implications. Why one strategy of profitmaking works when and where it does is worth studying...

... with the consequences. By doing this for coke, elmore also suggests new avenues of inquiry for the history of capitalism. He highlights the protean nature of american capitalism and the different forms it takes. capitalism, in the end, is not one thing. it is many things with many implications. Why one strategy...

... by showing that the agrarians had to labor to claim the center of southern thinking for themselves or by showing the range of southern authors for whom agrarian issues were irrelevant. Paul Murphy's ambitious volume shows there are new things worth say- 624 / Agricultural History ing about Alien Tate, Donald...

..., Illinois State University, 1988 ). Restoring Traditions: A Photo Essay CYNTHIA VAGNETTI "For me, documentary photography matter of approach. The important how." is less a matter of subject and more a thing is not what's photographed but ?Dorothea Lange This quote from Dorothea Lange refers to not only...

... not wearing leather and using other animal products for day-to-day activities but what else? Could it have something to do with these new agricultural college enrollments?5 Apparently, two major things have happened since I last looked at American agriculture. First, it has now become common knowledge...