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...Olga Dror Rubber and the Making of Vietnam: An Ecological History, 1897–1975 . By Michitake Aso . Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press , 2018 . 426 pp., $32.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-1-4696-3715-0. © 2019 Agricultural History Society 2019 Book Reviews 573 perts...

...Jessica M. Chapman Aid under Fire: Nation Building and the Vietnam War . By Jessica Elkind . Lexington : University Press of Kentucky , 2016 . 310 pp., $45.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-8131-6583-7 . © 2018 Agricultural History Society 2018 136 Agricultural History rural areas...

...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...

...Chad Raymond Abstract Communist leaders in Vietnam attempted to use agricultural collectivization to transform a poor, agrarian country into a modern, socialist nation with an industrialized economy. Collectivized agricultural production lacked sufficient economic incentives for Vietnamese farmers...

... with Fire andWater isa multi-authored compilation of nearly twenty years of empirically based research conducted in themountain hamlet ofTat in northern Vietnam. The research surveys upon which the book is based were conducted between 1992 and 2006, and the contents of several chapters were previously...

..., this is an eminently readable book that should be of interest to students and scholars in any of those fields. Its short length and biographical approach also make it easy to recommend for advanced undergraduate audiences. Mark E. Frank Fulbright University Vietnam The Colonial Landscape of the British Caribbean...

... concern was garnering support for the United States’ initiative in Vietnam, while Holyoake wanted to make sure that New Zealand had access to American markets for its agricultural exports. Copyright 2004 Agricultural History Society 2004 Notes 1 the individual articles in "Special Issue...

... Georgetown University Asia Aid under Fire: Nation Building and the Vietnam War. By Jessica Elkind. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2016. 310 pp., $45.00, hardback, ISBN 978-0-8131-6583-7. Jessica Elkind s Aid under Fire is an important study of American nation-building programs in South Vietnam...

... of sufficiency rendered it illegitimate, leading to its collapse. Colleen M. Moore James Madison University Asia Rubber and the Making of Vietnam: An Ecological History, 1897 1975. By Michitake Aso. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2018. 426 pp., $32.95, paperback, ISBN 978-1-4696-3715-0...

...C. Michele Thompson These chapters start, in a geographic sense, in northern Vietnam with a chapter by Turner and Derks on the production of star anise and its movement through local and regional commodity chains. As found throughout the book, there is a concise overview of the various uses...

... production of A. annua for the global market is in China and Vietnam where the industry originated during the Vietnam War. Moreover, ACTs are extraordinarily expensive as a malaria treatment, far beyond the capabilities of most African households, so subsidies are needed, usually coming from the Global Fund...

... of California, Riverside 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. Forests are Gold is a case study on the management or rather, mismanagement of Vietnam s forests...

... States had been defeated in its ten-year war in Vietnam because of internal dissension at home and waning military morale in the rice fields of Southeast Asia. Robinson passed away in 1995. In 1996 his widow Mildred Robinson took the twelvehundred-page manuscript to the University of Virginia Press...

... programs that civilian aid workers sought to implement. Elkind s book is welcome addition to extant scholarship on the Vietnam War in particular, and US nation-building efforts during the Cold War more generally. Far from rehashing old explanations for the failure of Washington s nation-building...

... 2012 Book Reviews country, which freed up funds for military purchases. Finally, in South Vietnam, Food for Peace operated within the largely futile effort to create a regional showcase of urban prosperity and modern agricultural methods. Sarah T. Phillips Boston University Asia The Banana Tree...

... and conclusion. The first section explores the origins of phenoxy herbicides and “the quickening of conscience” around their use in the United States, Europe, and Vietnam. The second section offers case studies of phenoxy spraying and citizen response in the US West, while the third considers the toxic legacies...

... to eradicate fire ants as "the Vietnam of entomology" (360). Such statements express once more the strong feelings that Carson evoked and speak to the ongoing significance of her work. Clearly more his? torical investigation remains to be done into the influence of chemicals on lives and land in America...

... (15). Simon astutely locates the origins of this thinking in the disintegration of the New Deal coalition. Defeat in Vietnam, the embarrassment of Watergate, and stagflation produced a new political majority that inverted the ways that the federal government interacted with citizens. By the 1980s...

... Central Intelligence Agency enthusiastically exported such programs elsewhere, from Latin America to Vietnam, as a counterinsurgency weapon. Immerwahr concludes with a fascinating chapter on how US reformers borrowed from these examples to promote community-led action during the War on Poverty, though...

... with the distribution of US food aid. Food security has important political dimensions, as Woertz shows clearly. In the most recent food crisis, for example, several countries including Argentina, Russia, India, and Vietnam restricted food exports, thereby limiting food supplies going to the Middle East. Oil for Food...