...Sandra Kiesow Abstract The small island nation of São Tomé and Príncipe was one of the world’s leading producers of cocoa beans in the early twentieth century. The tropical climate, the abundant precipitation, and the fertile volcanic soils of the islands contributed to a rapid development of cocoa...

... . 3. The Belgian Academy of Sciences recognized his research on nitrogen in the atmosphere. It was later published in Petermann , Recherches de chimie et de physiologie appliquées à l'agriculture: analyses de matières fertilisantes et alimentaires . Tome II ( Brussels : G. Mayolez , 1895...

... Community Associations in New Mexico," 103 Nabokov, Tijerina and the Courthouse Raid, 51 43 "Grant Heirs Want an Accounting," Albuquerque Journal , 29 December2000 WMte, et al., Land Title Study, 243 44 ’Tome Heirs Seek Site in Manzanos," Albuquerque Journal , 23 July2000. 45 "History...

... to assess the nature of the labor regime, Burtt first traveled to Portugal and then to most of its African colonies, including (in order): the cocoa-producing islands of são Tomé and Príncipe; the nearby, labor-supplying colony of Angola; and, finally, on the far side of the continent, Mozambique. As Higgs...

..., ISBN 1-84323-291-X. Livestock breed histories have long been an area of strong interest tome. My own experiences with amajor breed ofBritish origin certainly generated a curiosity about the details of the origins ofWelsh Black cattle. I found this book to be incrediblywell researched. It proved...

... notwithstanding the familiarity of its context and content, this work offers insights into the forms and varieties of agricultural production possible in the period. gerhard Seibert s piece on São Tomé and Príncipe, for example, is exceptionally instructive on the models of sugar production in africa until...

...). It was this patriarchal system that impeded capitalist development. Her argument leads us to view agrarian economic relations inLatin America in a new light, including re thinkingwhat we thoughtwe knew about rural class relations. The book politically engages these issues to an unusual extent for an academic tome...

... who behaved reasonably as they modernized their estates. despite the excellence of many of the chapters in this book, its coverage is a little unbalanced for a tome that claims to talk about Great Britain. The solitary scottish paper, for example, really stands out in this respect. But this minor...

..., Rosenstein has produced a work that is accessible to a wide audience. Nevertheless, long, complex sentences occasionally ob scure the author's meaning and sometimes it ishard to follow his reasoning. It isnot clear tome, forexample, why the lack of inscriptions inwhich wives commemorate husbands who died...

...-4709-9. Itwas a revelation tome when I firstdiscovered Liberty Hyde Bailey's works in the dusty stacks of theUniversity ofMinnesota librarysome fifteenyears ago. I had come toMinnesota to attend graduate school with a burning interest in understanding theorigins andmeaning of the "land-grantmission...

... the importance of global crop commodities since seventeenth-century English settlers adopted Native Americans techniques and shipped dried tobacco to Europe. Lewis Cecil Gray s still classic 1933 tome, History of Agriculture in the Southern United States to 1860, portrayed a colonial plantation system...

... their tasks are typically named for their color or temperament: El Cohete (The Firecracker) or El Criminal (The Criminal). There is not a great deal of text in this visually beautiful book nor does there need to be. Wittliff does not intend to produce a tome, weighty with scholarship, about the origins...

..., 618 pp., $69.50, paperback, ISBN 978-90-8728-056-7. Legalising Land Rights is a massive edited tome addressing the mundane, practical, and rubber-meets-the-road issues that arise in creating secure property rights to land in developing countries. The six hundred-page book contains twenty essays...

... over the original tome and 133 Agricultural History Winter merely adding a forty-page introduction does not justify the purchase of this book ifan individual or library possesses the original version. The index is woefully outdated. Explanatory footnotes, moreover, would have been use ful.For example...

...: Essential Agrarian and Environmental Writings. Edited by Zachary Michael Jack. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2008. 261 pp., $29.95, hardback, ISBN 970-0-8014-4709-9. Itwas a revelation tome when I firstdiscovered Liberty Hyde Bailey's works in the dusty stacks of theUniversity ofMinnesota librarysome...

... reference tomajor works in the field.A case in point is the single mention of journalist John McPhee's 1966 classic, Oranges, on a matter irrelevant to his book's focus. These and other, less significant deficiencies suggest tome that her book is designed more to excite and provoke the hoi polloi than...

... book historiographically, only occasionally making reference tomajor works in the field.A case in point is the single mention of journalist John McPhee's 1966 classic, Oranges, on a matter irrelevant to his book's focus. These and other, less significant deficiencies suggest tome that her book...

... in 1995. In 1996 his widow Mildred Robinson took the twelvehundred-page manuscript to the University of Virginia Press. Editor Jeanette Hopkins reworked the tome, and Bitter Fruits of Bondage is the result. Scholars have debated tirelessly Civil War causation and why the American South lost. Robinson...

.... As a history book, this tome is not worth your time. Agricultural historians are better served by Steve Striffler and Mark Moberg's, Banana Wars. But as a primary document, this book is a worthwhile read. It is in telling this story that the book becomes enormously useful to the agricultural historian. Above...

... to tensions leading to the infamous mutiny aboard HMS Bounty. Musgrave s well-researched tome draws upon a wealth of primary sources and secondary literature including Bank s travel diaries and correspondence. It provides a realistic portrayal of Banks s poor academic performance and other shortcomings...