...Carol J. Pierce Colfer The Banana Tree at the Gate: A History of Marginal Peoples and Global Markets in Borneo . By Michael R. Dove . New Haven : Yale University Press , 2011 . 352 pp., $55.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-300-15321-7 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2012 2012...

... in the island’s agricultural history when plantations of clove trees gave way to more diverse small-scale agricultural systems. Beginning in the early years of the twentieth century, former slaves began a landscape overhaul that combined a suite of Asian, African, and American plants with methods and knowledge...

...Paul D. Peterson American Chestnut: The Life, Death, and Rebirth of a Perfect Tree . Susan Freinkel . © 2010 Agricultural History Society 2010 2010 Book Reviews missan opportunitfyorsomeinterestinignterpretatioonn theroleoffood incross-culturraellationshipIsn. theSouthwestH...

...Jared Farmer The Tanoak Tree: An Environmental History of a Pacific Coast Hardwood . By Frederica Bowcutt . Seattle : University of Washington Press , 2015 . 240 pp., $35.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-295-99464-2. © 2016 Agricultural History Society 2016 2016 Book Reviews stories...

... not working on a farm that we rented, they would be up there cutting down trees, moving the trees, and trying to get more for themselves, get more of their own land, you see.” He continued, “To me, it was a beautiful thing because they felt that there were going to be some great benefits from it. They'd say...

... in the US South, 1910–2008” ( PhD diss. , Yale University , 2009 ). Under the Trees: The Georgia Peach and the Quest for Labor in the Twentieth Century TOM OKIE The Georgia peach boom around the turn of the twentieth century was often hailed as a successful experiment in diversification. Peach...

... within the Atlantic economy. This essay examines the changing perceptions and uses of trees as the key to understanding how planters transformed a perceived wilderness into one of British America’s wealthiest and most repressive plantation societies. Colonists used trees to assess and understand...

...Nancy Langston Seeing the Forest and the Trees: Human-Environment Interactions in Forest Ecosystems . Emilio F. Moran and Elinor Ostrom . Copyright 2007 Agricultural History Society 2007 2007 Book Reviews the district officer,both ofwhom were British.Within modern Malaysia...

...James E. Fickle When Money Grew on Trees: A. B. Hammond and the Age of the Timber Baron . By Greg Gordon . Norman : University of Oklahoma Press , 2014 . 496 pp., $29.95 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-8061-4447-4 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2015 2015 2015 Book Reviews doing...

...Paul J. P. Sandul Trees in Paradise: A California History . By Jared Farmer . New York : W. W. Norton and company , 2013 . 592 pp., $35.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-393-07802-2 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2015 2015 2015 Book Reviews eventually led to the union s...

...James R. Skillen Money Trees: The Douglas Fir and American Forestry, 1900–1944 . By Emily K. Brock . Corvallis : Oregon State University Press , 2015 . 272 pp., $27.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-0-87071-809-0 . © 2016 Agricultural History Society 2016 Agricultural History Summer...

...Chad Raymond Forests are Gold: Trees, People, and Environmental Rule in Vietnam . By Pamela D. McElwee . Seattle : University of Washington Press , 2016 . 312 pp., $30.00 , paperback, ISBN 978-0-2959-9548-9 . © 2018 Agricultural History Society 2018 272 Agricultural History...

...John Martin Ancient Trees in the Landscape: Norfolk's Arboreal Heritage . By Gerry Barnes and Tom Williamson . Oxford : Oxbow Books , 2011 . 189 pp., £25.00 , paperback, ISBN 978-1-905119-39-4 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2013 2013 2013 Book Reviews valuable...

... on trees,” but the reality was far different. While prospective growers had been told that lush orchards were a simple product of nature, irrigated farming required a large input of capital, a high degree of horticultural expertise, and lots of hard work. The conflict between nature and the manmade...

... and culinary preparations, others for drying, and many "winter keepers" for long-term storage. These trees were supplied by distinctive, horticulturally trained farmers who produced grafted trees as part of their mixed crop output. Demand for this first catalog of American apple trees exploded in the Ohio...

... in mulberry trees, was also due to the distinctive features of their agricultural reformism and its creative relationship with credibility. © the Agricultural History Society, 2012 2012 NOTES 1. William Kenrick , The American Silk Grower's Guide or, The Art of Raising the Mulberry and Silk...

...Joel Orth Abstract During the Shelterbelt Project of the 1930s, foresters trained and instilled with Progressive-era values confronted an uncooperative public and nature on the Great Plains. Foresters assumed planting trees in shelterbelts was primarily a scientific and technical task. However...

... archives such as tree rings (dendroclimatology), and it presents human records as a complementary and underutilized source of paleoclimatological data that historians are well positioned to develop. It demonstrates that climate history offers a useful and accessible lens for interpreting the past...

... on the northeastern prairie edge of the Black Hills. It is doubtful, wrote the Lead Daily Call a year later in 1913, if a shipment of apples from Colorado, Washington, Oregon, or any of the apple growing states of the northwest can equal that from the Spearfish Valley. By 1913, thousands of young apple trees came...