Recent Scholarship
Agricultural
Hahn, Barbara, “Paradox of Precision: Bright Tobacco as Technology Transfer, 1880–1937,” Agricultural History, 82 (Spring 2008), 220–35.
Harris, Carmen V., “‘The Extension Service is not an Integration Agency’: The Idea of Race in the Cooperative Extension Service,” Agricultural History, 82 (Spring 2008), 193–219.
Roberts, Strother E., “‘Esteeme a Little of Fish’: Fish, Fishponds, and Farming in Eighteenth-Century New England and the Mid-Atlantic,” Agricultural History, 82 (Spring 2008), 143–63.
Austin, Ryan Francis, “‘Success and competence will have crowned their efforts’: The Farmstead Archaeology of Western New York, c. 1810–1910” (State University of New York, Buffalo, 2007). Order No. DA3261993.
Benson, Peter Blair, “To Not Be Sorry: Citizenship, Moral Life, and Biocapitalism in North Carolina Tobacco Country” (Harvard University, 2007). Order No. DA3264912.
De Bruler, Ray, Jr., “Land Use and Settlement Patterns in Michigan, 1763–1837” (Western Michigan University, 2007). Order No. DA3275955.
Dew, Jay Randell, “Frustrated Fortunes: Francis E. Warren and the Search for a Grazing Policy, 1890–1929” (University of Oklahoma, 2007). Order No. DA3264587.
Gisolfi, Monica Richmond, “From Cotton Farmers to Poultry Growers: The Rise of Industrial Agriculture in Upcountry Georgia, 1914–1960” (Columbia University, 2007). Order No. DA3266581.
Narber, Gregg Ross, “How You Gonna Keep ’em Down on the Farm? Mapping New Deal Cultural Democracy in Iowa” (University of Iowa, 2007). Order No. DA3265969.
Nienow, Jeremy Loren, “Settlement Success on the Southeastern Minnesota Frontier, 1854–1870: An Institutional Diversity Analysis” (University of Minnesota, 2007). Order No. DA3263125.
Nahmias, Rick, The Migrant Project: Contemporary California Farm Workers. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2008. xxviii, 139 pp. Paper, $27.95, isbn 978-0-8263-4407-6.) Heavily illustrated.
Powell, Katrina M., The Anguish of Displacement: The Politics of Literacy in the Letters of Mountain Families in Shenandoah National Park. (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2007. xviii, 212 pp. $35.00, isbn 978-0-8139-2628-5.)
Wood, Richard E., Survival of Rural America: Small Victories and Bitter Harvests. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2008. xx, 223 pp. $34.95, isbn 978-0-7006-1577-3.)
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