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...Calestous Juma Copyright 2008 Agricultural History Society 2008 The Birth of Development: How the World Bank, Food and Agriculture Organization, and World Health Organization Changed the World, 1945-1965 . Amy L. S. Staples . 2008 BookReviews land conversion. There are multiple policy...

...Daniel Immerwahr The Great American Mission: Modernization and the Construction of an American World Order . By David Ekbladh . Princeton : Princeton University Press , 2009 . 408 pp., $24.95 , ISBN 978-0-691-15245-5 . The Hungry World: America's Cold War Battle against...

...Sally G. McMillen Copyright 2007 Agricultural History Society 2007 The Sugar Masters: Planters and Slaves in Louisiana’s Cane World, 1820–1860 . Richard Follett . Agricultural History Spring The second group comprised English agricultural laborers and unskilled workers tired of low...

...J. H. Galloway Copyright 2007 Agricultural History Society 2007 Tropical Babylons: Sugar and the Making of the Atlantic World, 1450–1680 . Stuart B. Schwartz . Agricultural History Spring munity relations from the enterprise of the farm. "Labour and leisure were never far apart...

...G. N. Uzoigwe Copyright 2007 Agricultural History Society 2007 Maize and Grace: Africa’s Encounter with a New World Crop, 1500–2000 . James C. McCann . Agricultural History Spring edge transfer occurred in the reverse direction, with applied research triggering fundamental research...

... EnglishdepartmentsN. one ofthecontributionis scholarlyin thetraditionaslense of havingfootnotesor sustainedargumentsa;ll are deeplypersonalnarratives 128 Copyright 2007 Agricultural History Society 2007 Farmers’ Bounty: Locating Crop Diversity in the Contemporary World . Stephen B. Brush . ...

...Susan M. Hartmann On the Farm Front: The Women’s Land Army in World War II . Stephanie A. Carpenter . Copyright 2004 Agricultural History Society 2004 128 / Agricultural History After discussing the left, Choate turns to the right and farmer opposition to the directive nature...

...Gordon M. Patterson Toxic Drift: Pesticides and Health in the Post World War II South . Pete Daniel . Copyright 2007 Agricultural History Society 2007 2007 BookReviews ToxicDrift:PesticidesandHealth in thePostWorldWar II South.By Pete Daniel. Baton Rouge: Louisiana...

...Roger Adelson Food for War: Agriculture and Rearmament in Britain before the Second World War . Alan F. Wilt . Copyright 2004 Agricultural History Society 2004 Book Reviews / 249 encourages new ways of imagining the relationship between humans and their environment. It also summarizes...

...Jackson R. Perry Nomad’s Land: Pastoralism and French Environmental Policy in the Nineteenth-Century Mediterranean World . By Andrea E. Duffy . Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press , 2019 . 336 pp., $55.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-8032-9097-6. © 2020 Agricultural History Society...

...Scott E. Giltner A New Plantation World: Sporting Estates in the South Carolina Lowcountry, 1900–1940 . By Daniel J. Vivian . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2018 . 358 pp. $59.99 , hardback, ISBN 978-1-1084-1690-0. © 2020 Agricultural History Society 2020 Book...

...Maureen S. Thompson The Multifarious Mr. Banks from Botany Bay to Kew: The Natural Historian Who Shaped the World . By Toby Musgrave . New Haven : Yale University Press , 2020 . 386 pp., $35.00 , hardcover, ISBN 978-0-3002-2383-5. © 2020 Agricultural History Society 2020 Book...

... , New Zealand’s Burning: The Settlers’ World in the Mid 1880s (Wellington: Victoria University Press, 1994 ), 227 -30 12 M. E. Fitzgerald, County Engineer, Matamata County Council, to H. Cleland, Chief Inspector, Department of Agriculture, Auckland, Mar. 17, 1937, AG 40 1937/386, NZNA P. W...

...J. Williams Harris The South, the Nation, and the World: Perspectives on Southern Economic Development . David L. Carlton and Peter A. Coclanis . Copyright 2005 Agricultural History Society 2005 Book Reviews / 105 that has attracted considerable attention since long before...

... During World War II," Parts I and II, Aug. 7,1942 to July 9,1945, Research and Analysis Branch, United States Office of Strategic Services on Microfilm [hereafter OSS], p. 31 Larkin , Sugar and the Origins of Modern Philippine Society (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993 ), 237...

...Mark Coyne Enriching the Earth: Fritz Haber, Carl Bosch, and the Transformation of World Food Production . Vaclav Smil . Copyright 2005 Agricultural History Society 2005 Book Reviews / 383 nessing water power to produce scythes for farmers, spindles for textile mills, and cotton...

... for themselves. Their choices, visible in everyday routine purchases, have implications for some of the main stories about material life, consumption, and market relationships in early settlement society. It is difficult, for example, to picture rural isolation from a capitalist world if ordinary farm families...

...J. V. Beckett Copyright 2008 Agricultural History Society 2008 The Front Line of Freedom: British Farming in the Second World War . Brian Short , Charles Watkins and John Martin . AgriculturHalistory Summer ments that underpinned them, in order tomore easily regulate and tax...

...Richard Diehl Copyright 2008 Agricultural History Society 2008 Farming, Hunting, and Fishing in the Olmec World . Amber VanDerwarker . 2008 BookReviews With Dekay's departure, Mexican meat provisioning came under the swayof the revolutionargyovernment'csorporatisptoliciesof using...

...Douglas Deur AgriculturHalistory Fall Ginseng Dreams: The Secret World of America's Most Valuable Plant. By Kristin JohannsenL. exington:UniversityPress ofKentucky,2006. 224 pp., $24.95,hardback,ISBN 0-8131-2384-4. Among themany plants that have been harvested commercially inNorth America, ginseng...