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...Marilyn Morris The Transformation of Rural England: Farming and the Landscape, 1700–1870 . Tom Williamson . Copyright 2002 Agricultural History Society 2002 Book Reviews / 741 intersection of religion and rurality in general and in the Anabaptist tradition in particular. Rebecca...

.... This family memoir uses the letters written between Olava Williamson and her children to gain a first-hand account of dairy farming in early twentiethcentury Wisconsin. although not without problems, this is a charming book because the letters, mostly between the daughters and their mother, are detailed...

..., River of Dark Dreams: Slavery and Empire in the Cotton Kingdom (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2013). 4. Peter H. Lindert and Jeffrey G. Williamson, Unequal Gains: American Growth and Inequality since 1700 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2016), 96–139; William N. Parker...

...-976-2. This family memoir uses the letters written between Olava Williamson and her children to gain a first-hand account of dairy farming in early twentiethcentury Wisconsin. although not without problems, this is a charming book because the letters, mostly between the daughters and their mother...

... in particular. Rebecca Sharpless Baylor University The Transformation of Rural England: Farming and the Landscape, 17001870. By Tom Williamson. Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 2002. 199 pp., $32.00 ISBN 0-85989-634-X. The emerging discipline of landscape history/archaeology has an able ambassador in Tom...

...Melissa Walker Narrative Folk Themes in Oral Histories of Farming MELISSA WALKER "My grandmother could use everything about a hog except his squeal," said Wilma Williamson, recalling her childhood on a farm in Depression-era East Tennessee. "She made sausage and seasoned it with her own special...

... , 2016 ). 2. Still the standard history of early petroleum lighting in the United States is the first of the two-volume work by Harold F. Williamson and Arnold R. Daum , The American Petroleum Industry, Volume 1: The Age of Illumination, 1859–1899 ( Evanston : Northwestern University...

... Barbara did not spring from a winemaking heritage. In the 1960s captains of industry, real estate moguls, entrepreneurs, etc, were trying to reduce the property taxes on their large country estates by placing them under the Williamson Act agricultural preserve program. Many, like Ronald Reagan, simply ran...

...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...

... offers a compelling case for the importance of ideas about land to thehistory ofmodern English politics. Desmond Fitz-Gibbon University of California-Berkeley The Countryside of East Anglia: Changing Landscapes, 1870-1950. By Susanna Wade Martins and Tom Williamson. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press...

...Peter Dewey Roots of Change: Farming and the Landscape in East Anglia, c.1700–1870 . Susanna Wade Martins and Tom Williamson . Copyright 2001 Agricultural History Society 2001 Book Reviews / 245 public elementary schools in their settlements and integrated high schools...

... over it. The forth region, the moors and vales of the north and west, illustrate how agricultural and industrial revolutions intertwined. The new railways allowed transportation of materi- als required for drainage and liming. Williamson then considers the "high farming" of the 1830s to 1870s, the last...

..., and newspaper sources is effective. Bruce L. Bigelow Butler University Roots of Change: Farming and the Landscape in EastAnglia, c. 1700-1870. By Susanna Wade Martins and Tom Williamson. Exeter: British Agricultural History Society, 1999. 208 pp., $35.00, hardback, ISBN 0-9536668-0-8. A reappraisal...

... Williamson. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 2008.264 pp., $47.95, hardback, ISBN 978-1-84583-417-5. This detailed, very interesting,and well-written account provides an informa tive critique of the changing countryside of East Anglia. The authors should be commended for themeticulous way inwhich...

...Maria Elizabeth Kennedy [email protected] The Orchards of Eastern England: History, Ecology, and Place . By Gerry Barnes and Tom Williamson . Hatfield, UK : University of Hertfordshire Press , 2021 . 270 pp., $33.95 , paperback, ISBN 9781912260423 . Copyright...

... change over the decades. The stress of selecting a good husband, the heartache felt because of the mental illness of a child, and the constant displacement of farm renters are all contained within the records of the Williamson family. Their correspondence is a good reminder that the onset...

... of socioeconomic and political conditions on the one hand and the process of enclosure by mutual agreement from about 1650, on the other. Robert Silvester speaks about the desertion of settlements in the southwestern and Welsh Uplands. Tom Williamson looks at the archaeology of emparked settlements and shows...

... personnel advocated adoption of a "package of practices/' 15. This requiredat least twenty feet for a one-rowpickerandat least twenty-fivefeet for a two-rowpicker.See Rex R. ColwickandE. B. Williamson,"Harvestingto MaintainEfficiencyand to ProtectQuality,"in Advancesin Productionand Utilizationof...

..., of course, as being disrupted by it. Generally, however, this book is a pleasure to read, and its diversity of topics ensures that all readers will learn something new. Alice Weinreb Utah State University Ancient Trees in the Landscape: Norfolk s Arboreal Heritage. By Gerry Barnes and Tom Williamson. Oxford...

... County, again because of the railroad.8 A herd law approved by the territorial legislature in 1906 hastened the process. This law required ranchers to fence in their herds to protect farm? ers' crops. In 1905, Panhandle rancher J. C. Williamson presented the cat? tleman's side of the proposed herd law...