...Monica Richmond Gisolfi Abstract In 1929 rural sociologist Rupert Vance surveyed the southern landscape, seeing no end in sight to the cotton production that impoverished the South. In search of ways for cotton farmers to diversify, Vance noted that "whether equitable or not, a system of division...

...Brigid E. Vance Upriver Journeys: Diaspora and Empire in Southern China, 1570–1850 . By Steven B. Miles . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press , 2017 . 346 pp., $45.95 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-6749-7520-0 . © 2018 Agricultural History Society 2018 634 Agricultural History...

...Alison Collis Green Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis . By J. D. Vance . New York : HarperCollins , 2016 . 272 pp., $27.99 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-06-230054-6 . © 2017 Agricultural History Society 2017 Featured Review Hillbilly Exile ALISON COLLIS...

... diplomatic and consular posts, Feb. 3, 1977, FRUS, 1977-1980 , vol. 2, Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs , ed. Kristin L. Ahlberg (Washington, DC: US GPO, 2013), document 8. Burton and Scott Kaufman write that, in making this statement, “Vance declared that a policy of absolutism was not possible...

... in 2006 and is currently an assistant professorof historyat theUniversityofNorthCarolina-Wilmington. In 1929 ruralsociologistRupertVance surveyedthesouthernland scape, seeing no end in sight to the cotton production that impoverished the South. In search of ways for cotton farmers to diversify,Vance noted...

... to support dairy herds in full production, or even to rough out grass-fed beef cattle. Famed regionalist Rupert Vance echoed Carr a few years later, saying the possibility of forming a permanent close turf in the Deep South has long been seriously doubted. The one crop system, Vance added, does...

.... Reid , Picturing Texas: The FSA-OWI Photographers in the Lone Star State, 1935–1943 (Austin: Texas State Historical Association, 1994 ), 56 "Migrant Cotton Pickers. Texas," LC USF34-009827, FSA-OWI 27 Rupert B. Vance, How the Other Half is Housed.A Pictorial Record of Sub-Minimum Farm...

... Vance, to the work of federal officials and the Freedman s Bureau, through the growth of the state during the Populist and Progressive eras, he exposes a fascinating, if sometimes dissonant, chorus of asking, granting, and receiving that reverberated amongst the subjects, citizens, occupiers...

...Sanghamitra Misra Agricultural History Summer relationship between needy subjects and their leaders beginning with North Carolina s Civil War relief policies. From the magnanimous wartime governor, Zebulon Vance, to the work of federal officials and the Freedman s Bureau, through the growth...

... to protests by peas- ant organizations, they do not discuss the extent to which the transformation may have been shaped in part by the changing political influence of the peas- antry over this period. Reservations aside, this book is a remarkable work of synthesis which ad- vances an important thesis...

... is a remarkable work of synthesis which ad- vances an important thesis and deserves a wide readership, not just among agricultural historians but also among those responsible for agricultural policy. One of the major implications of the authors analysis (though it is not voiced) is that if the industrial...

... of the reality of the drastic poverty that seems all pervasive there?the latter has been left entirely to the devices of Arkansas folklorists like Vance Randolph, who himself promoted what came to be the stereotypical image. By the beginning of the twenty-first century, that image seemed written in concrete...

... will find the work compelling. Brigid E. Vance Lawrence University Panda Nation: The Construction and Conservation of China s Modern Icon. By E. Elena Songster. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. 264 pp., $34.95, hardback, ISBN 978-0-1993-9367-1. Perhaps the most surprising revelation from E. Elena...

...," Technology and Culture 47 (July 2006): 584-96. James E. Vance Jr., The North American Railroad: Its Origin, Evolution, and Geography (Balti more: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995), 11-12. A successful study limited to Cali fornia is:William Francis Deverell, Railroad Crossing: Californians...

...: University of California Press, 2005), 40; Kevin Starr, Inventing the Dream: California Through the Progressive Era (New York: Oxford University Press, 1985), 46-47, 166; James Vance Jr., "California and the Search for the Ideal," Annals of the Association of American Geographers 62 (June 1972): 200...

....: McClure Printing Company, Inc, 1983 ), 31 16 Rupert Vance , Human Geography of the South: A Study in Regional Resources and Human Adequacy (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1932 ), 415 17 Sherman and Henry, Hollow Folk, 182. 19 George Freeman Pollock...

...Brooks Blevins Copyright 2000 Agricultural History Society 2000 [Footnotes] 1 Milton Rafferty , The Ozarks: Land and Life (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1980 ), 72 3 Vance Randolph , The Ozarks: An American Survival of Primitive Society (New York...

..., USA: Depression America and the Ecological Imagination, 1929–1941 ( Athens : Ohio University Press , 2001 ); Vance Johnson , Heaven's Tableland: The Dust Bowl Story ( 1947 ; repr., New York : Da Capo Press , 1974 ); Hurt , Dust Bowl ; Worster , Dust Bowl ; John R. Wunder...

... of the 1914 Smith-Lever Act, some Jeanes supervisors were employed as local agricultural club agents and tasked with the responsibility of promoting rural reform. For instance, supervisors Mary D. Sims (Lafayette County) and Della Edith Vance (Monroe and Clark Counties) were hired as Negro club agents...

... of the urban vote (1). Wuthnow s academic study is unlikely to catch the attention of cable-news pundits who cover more popular and sensational diagnoses of so-called Trump Country, but that is a shame. The Left Behind is a far more thoughtful book than the likes of these offerings, such as J. D. Vance s...