...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...

...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...

... 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...

... 2 Gloria L. Main, "Gender, Work, and Wages in Colonial New England," William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd ser., 51 (January1994): 39 -66 David Maldwyn Ellis , Landlords and Farmers in the Hudson-Mohawk Region, 1790–1850 (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1946 ), 104 Hal S. Baron...

... consider all her subjects, including the company management of Tyson and IBP. In many ways, historians have an easier time; our subjects, for the most part, are never going to read our work. But I found that my biggest questions about labor and power were frustratingly unanswered. While Nabhan-Warren...

... ( 1933 ): 386 ; H. Unger , “Der Düngermarkt ohne Subventionen,” Deutsche Landwirtschaftliche Presse 88 ( Oct. 23 , 1965 ): 422 – 23 . Why Panaceas Work: Recasting Science, Knowledge, and Fertilizer Interests in German Agriculture FRANK UEKO¨ TTER This article discusses the role...

...Frederic Aparisi Romero The Valley of the Six Mosques: Work and Life in Medieval Valldigna . By Ferran Garcia-Oliver . Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols , 2012 . 331 pp., €90.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-2-503-53130-4 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2014 2014 Book Reviews Europe...

...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...

... 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...

...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...

...Gabriella Santangelo Food, Energy, and the Creation of Industriousness: Work and Material Culture in Agrarian England, 1550–1780 . By Craig Muldrew . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2011 . 376 pp., $99.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-521-88185-2 . © the Agricultural History...

...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 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 978-1-56663-702-2. In A Good Day's Work,authorDwightHoover,emeritusprofessorof historyand theformerdirectorof...

...: 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...

... 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...

...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...