...Amanda McGee Although one of Washington's main goals was to serve as an example of the farming and husbandry enterprises the new nation needed to operate as a sovereign economic and political institution in an increasingly globalized world, by the end of his presidency, he failed to make any...

...William Kerrigan [email protected] The Washington Apple: Orchards and the Development of Industrial Agriculture . By Amanda L. Van Lanen . Norman : University of Oklahoma Press , 2022 . 296 pp., $34.95 , hardcover, ISBN 9780806190662 . Copyright © 2024...

...Amanda Van Lanen Abstract Washington's orchard output grew dramatically after the arrival of the Great Northern and Northern Pacific railways in 1885 and 1893, respectively. The railroads and local real estate boosters promoted central Washington's desert as an orchard paradise, “where dollars grow...

...Donald L. Parman Copyright 2000 Agricultural History Society 2000 Beyond the Reservation: Indians, Settlers, and the Law in Washington Territory, 1853-1889 . Brad Asher . 826 / Agricultural History short-term and insufficient solution" to the unemployment created by the Great...

...Mark Hersey Alabama in Africa: Booker T. Washington, the German Empire, and the Globalization of the New South . By Andrew Zimmerman . Princeton : Princeton University Press , 2010 . 416 pp., $35.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-691-12362-2 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2011...

...R. Douglas Hurt My Work Is That of Conservation: An Environmental Biography of George Washington Carver . By Mark D. Hersey . Athens : University of Georgia Press , 2011 . 306 pp., $29.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-0-8203-3870-5 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2012 2012 2012...

...Dana R. Chandler George Washington Carver: A Life . By Christina Vella . Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press , 2015 . 422 pp., $38.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-8071-6074-9 . © 2017 Agricultural History Society 2017 Agricultural History labor for children policy...

...Joshua Abram Kercsmar George Washington Written upon the Land: Nature, Memory, Myth, and Landscape . By Philip Levy . Morgantown : West Virginia University Press , 2015 . 293 pp. $79.99 , hardback, ISBN 978-1-940425-89-4 . © 2018 Agricultural History Society 2018 Book Reviews...

...Laurie Carlson Abstract William Jasper Spillman (1863-1931) developed wheat hybrids at Washington State Agricultural College in 1899 and was the first to explain Mendelian theories to an agricultural audience. He moved to the USDA in Washington, DC, where he pioneered the field of farm management...

... farming activity on its steep slopes, soil erosion has been a problem since the turn of the twentieth century. Erosion threatened the long-term viability of farming in the Palouse and the economic health of greater eastern Washington. Local efforts at stemming the problem were nonexistent in the 1910s...

...Greg Donaghy; Michael D. Stevenson Abstract Although Canada was a committed member of the western alliance and publically supported Washington, DC’s efforts to isolate communist China, Ottawa embarked on large-scale wheat sales to Beijing in the late 1950s in the face of sustained US opposition...

... wealth. Washington’s pre-war oil embargo severely crippled military and civilian transport services throughout the war, and Japan’s conversion of cane sugar into fuel alcohol and butane for aviation fuel failed to generate successful outcomes. Also, as the Pacific War eliminated cotton imports from...

...-ranging conservation program that continued well beyond the 1930s. This cooperation between Colorado farmers and Washington, DC, policymakers gained strength during the war years when extension provided farmers a diverse and sizable army of seasonal workers to support wartime production. Ultimately...

... project that ends in failure is hardly a relic of the sixteenth century. John M. Collins Eastern Washington University Entangled Lives: Labor, Livelihood, and Landscapes of Change in Rural Massachusetts. By Marla R. Miller. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019. 384 pp. $64.95, hardback...

... for years to come, but for now Schurman and Munro have provided a highly useful examination of what has made anti-biotech movements tick. Glenn Davis Stone Washington University Agriculture in World History. By Mark B. Tauger. New York: Routledge, 2011. 192 pp., $29.95, paperback, ISBN 978-0-415-077387-4...

..., and these are stories worth telling. Lawrence Hatter Washington State University The Politics of Scale: A History of Rangeland Science. By Nathan Sayre. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017. 284 pp., $40.00, paperback, ISBN 978-02260-8311-7. In the Politics of Scale: A History of Rangeland Science, Nathan Sayre...

... of using overlapping biographies guards against abusing that power by privileging one voice over another. Above all, Catton is a master storyteller, and these are stories worth telling. Lawrence Hatter Washington State University The Politics of Scale: A History of Rangeland Science. By Nathan Sayre...

... of toxicology. It is in the minutiae of scientific uncertainty and the exploitation of that uncertainty by pesticide protagonists that we see how it is possible for contemporary agrochemical regulation to continue to champion the indiscriminate use of pesticides. Adam Romero University of Washington Bothell...