...Bartow J. Elmore The Slain Wood: Papermaking and Its Environmental Consequences in the American South . By William Boyd . Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press , 2015 . 376 pp., $55.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-1-4214-1878-0 . © 2017 Agricultural History Society 2017...

...Robert Elder The Allstons of Chicora Wood: Wealth, Honor, and Gentility in the South Carolina Low Country . By William Kauffman Scarborough . Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press , 2011 . 216 pp., $35.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-8071-3843-4 . © the Agricultural History...

... Georgia. ByMark V. Wetherington.Chapel Hill: UniversityofNorth Carolina Press,2005. 400 pp., $39.95,hardback,0-8078-2963-3. InPlainFolk's FightM, arkWetheringtontellsthestoryof the"plainfolk" of thepiney woods ofGeorgia. He closely examines the lives of the plainfolk (non-slaveholding small farmers...

...Sara Gregg Zoro’s Field: My Life in the Appalachian Woods . Thomas Rain Crowe . Copyright 2007 Agricultural History Society 2007 Agricultural History Spring velopment of the tin can, and the invention of large ironclad ships have all had impacts on food supply and dietary habits...

...Mark Aldrich Abstract Beginning in the 1870s, kerosene stoves became fixtures in many farm kitchens, as households shifted from wood or coal to oil fuel. Surveys during the 1930s reveal that, outside of cities, oil was afar more common cooking fuel than gas. Yet the literature on farm and rural...

...Warren C. Wood Pasadena Before the Roses: Race, Identity, and Land Use in Southern California, 1771–1890 . By Yvette J. Saavedra . Tucson : University of Arizona Press , 2018 . 280 pp., $45.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-8165-3553-8. © 2020 Agricultural History Society 2020 Book...

...Bradford J. Wood Rice: Global Networks and New Histories . Edited by R. Francesca Bray, Peter A. Coclanis, Edda L. Fields-Black, and Dagmar Schäfer . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2015 . 364 pp., $99.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-1-107-04439-5. © 2016 Agricultural History...

...Vaughan Wood; Eric Pawson Abstract In the mid to late nineteenth century, the agricultural periodical emerged as a major new medium for circulating information. In colonial settings it proved particularly important, as settlers often lived remotely from the markets for their produce, and they did...

...Vaughan Wood The Irish Fertiliser Industry: A History . Mark Cooper and John Davis . Copyright 2007 Agricultural History Society 2007 2007 BookReviews Lynn-Sherow'ns arrativeis bothengagingand persuasive.The picture she paintsof nineteenth-centuOryklahoma helps...

...A. J. R. Russell-Wood English, Irish and Irish-American Pioneer Settlers in Nineteenth-Century Brazil . Oliver Marshall . Copyright 2007 Agricultural History Society 2007 2007 Book Reviews connect to the region, nation, and world in a time of remarkable political and economic...

...Peter H. Wood This Remote Part of the World: Regional Formation in Lower Cape Fear, North Carolina, 1725–1775 . Bradford J. Wood . Copyright 2007 Agricultural History Society 2007 2007 Book Reviews and why concerns for the environment stood center stage in the global strategy...

...Abigail Woods awoods@lincoln.ac.uk The Real Agricultural Revolution: The Transformation of English Farming, 1939–1985 . By Paul Brassley , Michael Winter , Matt Lobley , and David Harvey . Woodbridge : Boydell , 2021 . 300 pp., $99.99 , hardback, ISBN 9781783276356...

... the land’s capacity for market agriculture. Slaves cleared land of its wood to prepare the terrain for planting, provide Britain’s empire with vital commodities, and build the infrastructure of daily material life in the region. As colonists and slaves came into sustained engagement with this landscape...

... of the building costs for their farmsteads and the positive effects of timber regulations in the eighteenth century, including self-regulation by peasants. In addition, while previous studies have accentuated the peasants' thefts of wood after losing their entitlements to the lords' forests due to the reform...

...Brett Bannor The Herds Shot Round the World: Native Breeds and the British Empire, 1800–1900 . By Rebecca J. H. Woods . Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press , 2017 . 250 pp., $32.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-1-4696-3466-1 . © 2018 Agricultural History Society 2018...

...Adam Spencer A Manufactured Plague: The History of Foot and Mouth Disease in Britain . Abigail Woods . Copyright 2006 Agricultural History Society 2006 BookReviews / 481 surprisesthat come in the pursuitof truth,in choosing and doing historical research,and in relatingacademiclife...

...Philip L. Frana Genetic Prehistory in Selective Breeding: A Prelude to Mendel . Roger J. Wood and Vítěslav Orel . Copyright 2003 Agricultural History Society 2003 Book Reviews / 619 abundantly throughout the text. Nevertheless, Frederic provides a useful account of a neglected...