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Agricultural History Review, Volume 68 (2020)

Articles, Part 1
Articles, Part 2
Reviews, Part 1
Anne Rowe, Tudor and early Stuart parks of Hertfordshire (University of Hertfordshire Press, 2019), reviewed by Eloise Kane, p. 122
Eric H. Ash, The draining of the Fens: Projectors, popular politics, and state building in early modern England (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017), reviewed by Maurits W. Ertsen, p. 123
Adrian Green and Barbara Crosbie (eds), Economy and culture in north-east England, 1500–1800 (The Boydell Press, 2018), reviewed by Alan Wadsworth, p. 125
Robert Tittler (ed.), Two weather diaries from northern England, 1779–1807: The journals of John Chipchase and Elihu Robinson (Boydell: Surtees Society, 2019), reviewed by Jessica Davidson, p. 126
John Shaw, The Loes and Wilford Poor Law Incorporation, 1765–1826: ‘A Prison with a Milder Name’ (Boydell Press, 2019), reviewed by Samantha Williams, p. 127
M. L. Biscotti, British sporting periodicals: An annotated bibliography (Rowman and Littlefield, 2019), reviewed by Hannah M. Clark, p. 128
Joanna Foat, Lumberjills: Britain’s forgotten army (The History Press, 2019), reviewed by Corinna Peniston-Bird, p. 129
Glen O'Hara, The politics of water in post-war Britain (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017), reviewed by Jane E. Rowling, p. 130
Christopher Dyer, Erik Thoen and Tom Williamson (eds), Peasants and their fields: The rationale of open-field agriculture, c. 700–1800 (Brepols, 2018), reviewed by Joshua Rhodes, p. 131
Sandro Carocci, Lordships of Southern Italy: rural societies, aristocratic powers and monarchy in the 12th and 13th centuries, trans. lucinda byatt (Viella, 2018), reviewed by Paul Oldfield, p. 132
Luigi Lorenzetti, Yann Decorzant, and Anne-Lise Head-König (eds), Relire l’altitude: la terre et ses usages, Suisse et espace avoisinants, XIIe–XXIe siècles (Éditions Alphil – Presses universitaires suisses, 2019), reviewed by Rahel Wunderli, p. 134
Markus Lampe and Paul Sharp, A land of milk and butter: how elites created the modern Danish dairy industry (University of Chicago Press, 2018), reviewed by Esben Bøgh Sørensen, p. 135
Lluís Serrano Jiménez, Tancar la terra: Pràctiques de propietat i dinàmiques socials (Catalunya, 1850–1910) (Documenta Universitaria, 2018), reviewed by Romain Bonnet, p. 136
Connie Y. Chiang, Nature behind barbed wire: An environmental history of the Japanese American incarceration (Oxford University Press, 2018), reviewed by Andrew Watson, p. 137
Venus Bivar, Organic resistance: the struggle over industrial farming in postwar France (University of North Carolina Press, 2018), reviewed by Rory Hill, p. 139
Reviews, Part 2
Nick Ashton-Jones, Landscape, wealth and dispossession (Parker Street Publications, 2019), reviewed by Martin Empson, p. 307
David Crouch (ed.), The Victoria County History of the counties of England. A history of the County of York: East Riding, X, part 1, Howdenshire, the townships (Boydell & Brewer, 2019), reviewed by Arthur G. Credland, p. 308
Richard Brockington with Sarah Rose, The Victoria History of Cumberland: Kirkoswald and Renwick (Institute of Historical Research, 2019), reviewed by Leona J. Skelton, p. 309
David Stone (ed.), The accounts of the Manor of Esher in the Winchester Pipe Rolls, 1235–1376 (Surrey Record Society 46, 2017), reviewed by John Hare, p. 310
Alison Locker, Freshwater fish in England: A social and cultural history of coarse fish from prehistory to the present day (Oxbow Books, 2018), reviewed by Richard C. Hoffmann, p. 311
Bronach C. Kane, Popular memory and gender in medieval England: Men, women and testimony in the church courts, c.1200–1500 (Boydell & Brewer, 2019), reviewed by Tom Johnson, p. 313
Erica Fudge, Quick cattle and dying wishes: People and their animals in early modern England (Cornell University Press, 2018), reviewed by Sasha Handley, p. 314
Michael Symes, The English landscape garden: A survey (Historic England, 2019), reviewed by Jon Stobart, p. 315
Anthony C. Raper, The ancient and famous Weyhill Fair (The Weydon Press, 2017), reviewed by Alan Wadsworth, p. 316
Andrew Rossabi (ed.), Richard Jefferies: a miscellany (Galileo Publishers, 2019), reviewed by Will Abberley, p. 317
Erika Guttmann-Bond, Reinventing sustainability: How archaeology can save the planet (Oxbow Books, 2019), reviewed by Jane Rowling, p. 319
Kees Kuiken, Rural salvation markets: medieval memoria in Dutch village parishes (Nederlands Agronomisch Historisch Instituut, 2019), reviewed by Beat Kümin, p. 320
Stephen Heyman, The planter of modern life: Louis Bromfield and the seeds of a food revolution (W. W. Norton & Co., 2020), reviewed by Philip Conford, p. 321
R. Douglas Hurt, The Green Revolution in the Global South: Science, politics, and unintended consequences (University of Alabama Press, 2020), reviewed by Jonathan Harwood, p. 322
Esther Kingston-Mann, Women, land rights, and rural development: how much land does a woman need? (Routledge, 2018), reviewed by Jane Whittle, p. 323
Julian Cribb, Food or war (Cambridge University Press, 2019), reviewed by Kosmas Tsokhas, p. 325

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