...Neil Oatsvall; Vaughn Scribner Abstract This article utilizes a scientific definition of “work” to shift enslaved laborers and the environments within which they toiled to the heart of the historical conversation. Though British plantation owners and consumers often figure prominently in historical...

...: Defining Work in the Rural Midwest," Journal of Social History27 (Spring1994): 563 -77 Katherine Jellison , Entitled To Power: Farm Women and Technology, 1913–1963 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1993 ) Frances M. Shaver , "Women, Work, and Transformations...

... as a writer, as well as his experiences with manual farm work and the methods of environmentalist organic growers. He eventually concluded that only a community of farmers could produce and store effective knowledge and insisted that knowledge must be tacit—largely situated in locality, skills, and culture...

...Carmen Kordick Biography of a Hacienda: Work and Revolution in Rural Mexico . By Elizabeth Terese Newman . Tucson : University of Arizona Press , 2014 . 272 pp., $29.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-0-8165-3073-1 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2015 2015 Agricultural History...

...Kelly Houston Jones Abstract This essay attends to the work life of women on a plantation called Wagram, located on the Arkansas cotton frontier. Through an examination of this absentee-owned farm in one rugged corner of the Old Southwest, it uncovers women who faced challenges that differed from...

...Edward D. Melillo Making the Empire Work: Labor and United States Imperialism . Edited by Daniel E. Bender and Jana K. Lipman . New York : New York University Press , 2015 . 384 pp., $35.00 , paperback, ISBN 978-1-4798-5622-0 . © 2017 Agricultural History Society 2017 uses...

... Board, The General Education Board: An Account of its Activities (New York: General Education Board, 1915), 23–24; Alfred Charles True, A History of Extension Work in the United States (1928; repr., New York: Arno Press, 1969), 58–59. 5. Thomas M. Morgan, “The Beginnings of 4-H Club Work...

...Martin Bruegel Work, Gender, and Authority on the The Hudson Valley Countryside, 1790s-1850s Farm: MARTIN BRUEGEL Scottish traveler James Stuart put a rather somber spin on his description of rural areas in the Mid-Atlantic region when, in the early 1830s, he noted, "the harvest work being...

... to the undergraduate classroom. Kimberly K. Porter University of North Dakota To Pass on a Good Earth: The Life and Work of Carl O. Sauer. By Michael Williams with David Lowenthal and William M. Denevan. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2014. 288 pp., $45.00, hardback, ISBN 978-08139-3566-9. To Pass...

...Valerie Grim Work, Family, and Faith: Rural Southern Women in the Twentieth Century . Melissa Walker and Rebecca Sharpless . Copyright 2008 Agricultural History Society 2008 AgriculturHalistory Fall atWadi Al-Hasa. The use of theGIS-based Universal Soil Loss Equation has great...

...J. L. Anderson A Good Day’s Work: An Iowa Farm in the Great Depression . Dwight W. Hoover . © 2009 Agricultural History Society 2009 Book Reviews NorthAmerica A Good Day's WorkA: n Iowa Farmin theGreatDepression.By Dwight W.Hoover. Chicago:Ivan R. Dee, 2007.240 pp26.00,hardback,ISBN...

...Julie Courtwright Kansas in the Great Depression: Work Relief, the Dole, and Rehabilitation . Peter Fearon . © 2009 Agricultural History Society 2009 AgriculturHalistory Fall residentsl'ettersw, hichassertedan agencywithinthe processnot always acknowledgedbystateand...

... farmers’ resistance to the transformation of rural life wrought by agribusiness. Focusing on the processes of negotiation between women and men in farming families and rural communities, Íeth illuminated the relationship between women’s work and their power. Tracing the dense networks that connected farm...

...Evan P. Bennett Making a Living. Work and Environment in the United States . Chad Montrie . © 2010 Agricultural History Society 2010 AgriculturHalistory Winter Makinga Living.WorakndEnvironmeninttheUnitedStatesB. yChadMontrie. ChapelHill:UniversitoyfNorthCarolinaPress...

...Sally McMillen Mama Learned Us to Work: Farm Women in the New South . Lu Ann Jones . Copyright 2004 Agricultural History Society 2004 Book Reviews / 121 South Side Project, a privately promoted Carey Act project which succeeded magnificently, and the Minidoka project which succeeded...

...Kimberly Porter Childhood on the Farm: Work, Play, and Coming of Age in the Midwest . Pamela Riney-Kehrberg . Copyright 2007 Agricultural History Society 2007 Agricultural History Fall author calls the industry's "highly-individualistic" nature, a characteristic shared by both...

...Sharon Ann Murphy Dark Work: The Business of Slavery in Rhode Island . By Christy Clark-Pujara . New York : NYU Press , 2016 . 224 pp., $40.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-1-4798-7042-4 . © 2018 Agricultural History Society 2018 130 Agricultural History in Kansas, down from almost...

...Chris Young Producing Predators: Wolves, Work, and Conquest in the Northern Rockies . By Michael D. Wise . Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press , 2016 . 216 pp., $45.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-8032-4981-3 . © 2018 Agricultural History Society 2018 282 Agricultural History...

...Kelly Kennington An Intimate Economy: Enslaved Women, Work, and America’s Domestic Slave Trade . By Alexandra J. Finley . Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press , 2020 . 200 pp., $22.95 , paperback, ISBN 9781469661353. © 2021 Agricultural History Society 2021 710...

... or Fisherman? Imagining Agrarian Pathways to Immigrant Inclusion in Dekel-Chen s Putting Agricultural History to Work BEN NOBBS-THIESSEN In the late 1950s, hundreds of Okinawans found themselves new settlers in a frontier region of lowland Bolivia. Their colonies sat at the end of an often impassable twenty...