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Agricultural History Review, Volume 55 (2007)

Articles, Part 1
Articles, Part 2
Reviews, Part 1
Hugh Kearney, The British Isles. A history of four nations (CUP, sec. edn, 2006), reviewed by Rhys Jones, p. 126
Bruce M. S. Campbell and Ken Bartley, England on the eve of the Black Death. An atlas of lay lordship, land and wealth, 1300–49 (Manchester UP, 2006), reviewed by Christopher Dyer, p. 127
C. M. Woolgar, D. Serjeantson and T. Waldron (eds), Food in medieval England. Diet and nutrition (OUP, 2006), reviewed by Richard C. Hoffmann, p. 128
Simon Townley (ed.), The Victoria history of the counties of England. A history of the county of Oxford, XV, Carterton, Minster Lovell and environs, Bampton hundred part three (Boydell and Brewer for the Institute of Historical Research, 2006), reviewed by J. R. Maddicott, p. 129
John Harrop, Paul Booth and Sylvia H Harrop (eds), Extent of the lordship of Longdendale, 1360 (Record Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, 140, 2005), reviewed by Richard Britnell, p. 130
P. S. Barnwell and Malcolm Airs (eds), Houses and the hearth tax: the later Stuart house and society (Council for British Archaeology, Research Report 150, 2006), reviewed by J. V. Beckett, p. 131
Heather M. Beaumont with members of the Hebden History Group, Pointers to the past: the historical landscape of Hebden township, upper Wharfedale (Yorkshire Archeological Society, Occasional Papers 5, 2006), reviewed by Christine S. Hallas, p. 132
Alysha Levene, Thomas Nutt and Samantha Williams (eds), Illegitimacy in Britain, 1700–1920 (Palgrave, 2005), reviewed by Barry Reay, p. 133
Herbert Hope Lockwood, Tithe and other records of Essex and Barking (Essex Record Office, 2006), reviewed by Nesta Evans, p. 134
Anne Orde (ed.), Matthew and George Culley. Farming letters, 1798–1804 (Boydell Press / Surtees Society, 210, 2006), reviewed by Heather Holmes, p. 134
James P. Huzel, The popularization of Malthus in early nineteenth-century England. Martineau, Cobbett and the pauper press (Ashgate, 2006), reviewed by Michael Turner, p. 135
Robert Lee, Unquiet country. Voices of the rural poor, 1820–1880 (Windgather Press, 2005), reviewed by Alun Howkins, p. 136
M. Holland and J. Cooper (eds), Essex harvest: a collection of essays in memory of Arthur Brown (Essex Record Office, 2003), reviewed by E. J. T. Collins, p. 137
Paul Brassley, Jeremy Burchardt and Lynne Thompson (eds), The English countryside between the wars. Regeneration or decline? (Boydell Press, 2006), reviewed by R. J. Moore-Colyer, p. 139
Andrew Chamberlain, Demography in archaeology (CUP, 2006), reviewed by Nancy Howell, p. 140
J. R. McNeill and Verena Winiwarter (eds), Soils and societies. Perspectives from environmental history (Strond, Isle of Harris: White Horse Press, 2006), reviewed by Karl W. Butzer, p. 141
James Gerber and Lei Guang (eds), Agriculture and rural connections in the Pacific, 1500–1900 (Ashgate, 2006), reviewed by Eric Pawson, p. 142
Michael Williams, Deforesting the Earth: from prehistory to global crisis. An abridgment (Chicago UP, 2006), reviewed by J. M. Powell, p. 143
David B. Danbom, Born in the country. A history of rural America (Johns Hopkins UP, sec. edn, 2006), reviewed by Allan G. Bogue, p. 144
J. Bolòs, A. Jarne and E. Vicedo (eds), Condicions de vida al món rural (Diputació de Lleida / Insitut d’Estudis Ilerencs, 2006), reviewed by Joseph Harrison, p. 145
F. Démier, J-C. Farcy, G. Sanz Lafuente, N. Vivier and C. Zimmerman, Les sociétés rurales (1830–1930): historiographie, bibliographie, enjeux (Paris: Éditions Belin, 2005), reviewed by Hugh Clout, p. 145
Margaret E. Derry, Horses in society. A story of animal breeding and marketing culture, 1800–1920 (University of Toronto Press, 2006), reviewed by Phillip Thurtle, p. 146
Neil Dahlstrom and Jeremy Dahlstrom, The John Deere story. A biography of plowmakers John and Charles Deere (Northern Illinois University Press, 2005), reviewed by Peter Dewey, p. 147
Moon-Ho Jung, Coolies and cane. Race, labor, and sugar in the age of emancipation (Johns Hopkins UP, 2006), reviewed by Edward Rhoads, p. 148
Richard Perren, Taste, trade and technology. The development of the international meat industry since 1840 (Ashgate, 2006), reviewed by Margaret Walsh, p. 149
Eric W. Mogren, Native soil. A history of the DeKalb County Farm Bureau (Northern Illinois University Press, 2005), reviewed by Kimberly K. Porter, p. 150
Reviews, Part 2
Richard Jones and Mark Page, Medieval villages in an English landscape. Beginnings and ends (Windgather Press, 2006), reviewed by Susan Oosthuizen, p. 310
Adrian Bell, Chris Brooks and Paul Dry- Burgh (eds), Advance contracts for the sale of wool, c.1200–c.1327 (List and Index Society, 315, 2006), reviewed by John H. Munro, p. 311
Jean Birrell (ed.), Records of Feckenham Forest, Worcestershire, c.1236–1377 (Worcestershire Historical Society, New Series 21, 2006), reviewed by Barbara A. Hanawalt, p. 312
Bryan Waites, Monasteries and landscape of the North York Moors and Wolds (Tempus Publishing, 2007), reviewed by Janet Burton, p. 313
Oliver Rackham, Woodlands (Collins, New Naturalist Library, 100, 2006), reviewed by Stephen Mileson, p. 313
David Dickson, Old world colony. Cork and south Munster, 1630–1830 (Cork University Press, 2005), reviewed by R. W. Hoyle, p. 314
Hadrian Cook and Tom Williamson (eds), Water meadows. History, ecology and conservation (Windgather Press, 2007), reviewed by John Sheail, p. 317
Michael Hanson (ed.), Ducal estate management in Georgian Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire. The diary of William Gould, 1783–1788 (Thoroton Society, 44, 2006), reviewed by David Hey, p. 318
K. D. M. Snell, Parish and belonging. Community, identity and welfare in England and Wales, 1700–1950 (CUP, 2006), reviewed by Barry Reay, p. 319
Roger Young (ed.), Sparsholt, 1841–1901. A Hampshire village microhistory (Wessex Historical Databases 3, 2006), reviewed by Adrian Henstock, p. 320
Heather Holmes, Tattie howkers. Irish potato workers in Ayrshire (Ayrshire Archaeological and Natural History Society, Ayrshire Monographs 31, 2005), reviewed by Kevin J. James, p. 321
Robert Malcolmson and Peter Searby (eds), Wartime Norfolk. The diary of Rachel Dhonau, 1941–1942 (Norfolk Records Society, 58, 2004), reviewed by Alun Howkins, p. 322
Dale Serjeantson and David Field, Animals in the Neolithic of Britain and Europe (Oxbow Books, 2006), reviewed by Alasdair Whittle, p. 323
Joyce Marcus and Charles Standish (eds), Agricultural strategies (Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, University of California Los Angeles, 2006; distributed by Oxbow Books in the UK), reviewed by William E. Doolittle, p. 324
Isabel Alfonso (ed.), The rural history of medieval European societies. Trends and perspectives (Brepols, 2007), reviewed by John Langdon, p. 325
Perrine Mane, Le travail à la campagne au moyen âge. Étude iconographique (Editions Picard, 2006), reviewed by Elisabeth Zadora-Rio, p. 327
Werner Trossbach and Clemens Zimmer- Mann, Die Geschichte des Dorfes. Von den Anfängen im Frankenreich bis zur bundesdeutschen Gegenwart (Stuttgart: UTB/Verlag Eugen Ulmer, 2006), reviewed by Paul Warde, p. 327
Rosa Congost, Tierra, leyes, historia. Estudios sobre ‘la gran obra de la propiedad’ (Barcelona: Crítica, 2007), reviewed by Joseph Harrison, p. 328
Jordi Planas I Maresma, Els propietaris i l’associacionisme agrari a Catalunya, 1890–1936 (Girona: Universitat de Girona, Documenta Universitaria, 2006), reviewed by Joseph Harrison, p. 329
Osvaldo Failla and Gianpiero Fumi (eds), Gli agronomi in Lombardia: dalle cattedre ambulanti ad oggi (Milan: FrancoAngeli, 2006), reviewed by Mauro Ambrosoli, p. 330
K. Lynggaard, The Common Agricultural Policy and organic farming: an institutional perspective on continuity and change (CABI Publishing, 2006), reviewed by Paul Brassley, p. 331

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