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Agricultural History Review, Volume 70 (2022)

Articles, Part 1
Articles, Part 2
Reviews, Part 1
John Belcher, The foldcourse and East Anglian agriculture and landscape, 1100–1900 (Boydell Press, 2020), reviewed by Alan Wadsworth, p. 129
J. Michael Jefferson, The Templar estates in Lincolnshire, 1185–1565: Agriculture and economy (Boydell Press, 2020), reviewed by Erik Grigg, p. 130
Susan Kilby, Peasant perspectives on the medieval landscape: a study of three communities (University of Hertfordshire Press, 2020), reviewed by Rosamond Faith, p. 131
Christopher Gerrard and Alejandra Gutiérrez (eds), The Oxford Handbook of later medieval archaeology in Britain (Oxford University Press, 2018), reviewed by Patrick Gleeson, p. 132
Hugh Willmott, The Dissolution of the Monasteries in England and Wales (Equinox Publishing, 2022), reviewed by Ronan O’Donnell, p. 133
William D. Shannon, Seventeenth-century Lancashire restored: The life and work of Dr Richard Kuerden, antiquary and topographer, 1623–1702 (The Chetham Society, 2020), reviewed by Emily Sloan, p. 135
Richard Hoyle (ed.), Histories of people and landscape: Essays on the Sheffield region in memory of David Hey (University of Hertfordshire Press, 2021), reviewed by Angus J. L. Winchester, p. 136
Joseph Harley (ed.), Norfolk pauper inventories, c.1690–1834 (Oxford University Press, 2020), reviewed by Ruth Mather, p. 137
Alan Wadsworth (ed.), The farming diaries of Thomas Pinniger, 1813–1847 (Wiltshire Record Society, 74, 2021), reviewed by Eric L. Jones, p. 138
Vanessa Doe, Improving agriculture in nineteenth century Rutland (Rutland Local History and Record Society, 2018), reviewed by Alan Wadsworth, p. 139
William Evans, The Victorian model farm in south Gloucestershire and north Somerset (Avon Local History & Archaeology, 2018), reviewed by Alan Wadsworth, p. 140
David Frith, The Hornsey Enclosure Act, 1813 (Hornsey Historical Society, 2021), reviewed by Alan Wadsworth, p. 140
Heather Holmes (ed.), Scottish agricultural implement and machine makers, 1843 to 1914: a directory (Scottish Record Society, Electronic Series Volume 2, 2020), reviewed by Alan Wadsworth, p. 141
Geoff Sansome (ed.), The diary of a Claines Farmer, 1883 (Geoff Sansome, 2017), reviewed by Alan Wadsworth, p. 142
Marsha O’Mahony, The scratch of the hop: Hop picking in Herefordshire, Worcestershire and Shropshire (Logaston Press, 2021), reviewed by Jonathan Spain, p. 142
Simon Gooch, Edwin Gooch: Champion of the farmworkers (Poppyland Publishing, 2020), reviewed by Jane Rowling, p. 143
WISEarchive, Water, mills and marshes: Life and work on the Broads, 1920–2020 (WISEArchive, 2020), reviewed by David Matless, p. 145
Judith Curthoys, Cows and curates: The story of the land and livings of Christ Church, Oxford (Profile Books, 2020), reviewed by Jean Morrin, p. 146
David Crouch (ed.), The Victoria County History of the counties of England. A history of the County of York: East Riding, X, Part 2, Howden Town and Liberty (Boydell and Brewer, 2020), reviewed by Arthur G. Credland, p. 147
J. Escalona Monge, O. Vésteinsson and S. Brookes (eds), Polity and neighbourhood in early medieval Europe (Brepols, 2019), reviewed by Stuart Pracy, p. 148
Sylvie Bépoix and Hervé Richard (eds), La forêt au Moyen Âge (Les Belles Lettres, 2019), reviewed by Richard Keyser, p. 149
Davide Cristoferi, Il reame di Siena. La costruzione della Dogana dei Paschi e la svolta del Tardo Medioevo in Maremma (metà XIV-inizi XV secolo) (Istituto Storico Italiano per il Medio Evo, 2021), reviewed by Fabian Kümmeler, p. 151
Fabian Kümmeler, Korčula: Ländliche Lebenswelten und Gemeinschaften im venezianischen Dalmatien (1420–1499) (De Gruyter, 2021), reviewed by Beat Kümin, p. 152
Fabien Gaveau, Propriété, cadastre et usages locaux dans les campagnes françaises (1789–1960): Histoire d’une tension légale (Presses universitaires de Franche-Comté, 2021), reviewed by P. M. Jones, p. 153
Daniel Bensaïd (trans. Robert Nichols), The Dispossessed: Karl Marx’s debates on wood theft and the right of the poor (University of Minnesota Press, 2021), reviewed by Martin Empson, p. 154
Andrew A. Robichaud, Animal City: the domestication of America (Harvard University Press, 2019), reviewed by Andrew Flack, p. 156
Vivien Edwards, A path through the trees: Mary Sutherland – Forester, botanist and women’s advocate (Writes Hill Press, 2020), reviewed by Gerry Barnes, p. 157
Amanda Mcvety, The rinderpest campaigns: A virus, its vaccines, and global development in the twentieth century (Cambridge University Press, 2021), reviewed by John Martin, p. 158
Claas Kirchhelle, Pyrrhic progress: The history of antibiotics in Anglo-American food production (Rutgers University Press, 2020), reviewed by Camille Bellet, p. 159
Andrew N. Case, The organic profit: Rodale and the making of marketplace environmentalism (University of Washington Press, 2018), reviewed by Philip Conford, p. 160
María José Sevilla, Delicioso: A history of food in Spain (Reaktion Books, 2019), reviewed by Venetia Johannes, p. 162
William R. Carleton, Fruit, fiber, and fire: A history of modern agriculture in New Mexico (University of Nebraska Press, 2021), reviewed by R. Douglas Hurt, p. 163
Stuart McCook, Coffee is not forever: A global history of the Coffee Leaf Rust (Ohio University Press, 2019), reviewed by Jelmer Vos, p. 164
Alana Mann, Food in a changing climate (Emerald Publishing, 2021); Chris Otter, Diet for a large planet: Industrial Britain, food systems, and world ecology (Chicago University Press, 2020), reviewed by John Martin, p. 165
Mary Virginia Orna, Gillian Eggleston and Alvin F. Bopp (eds), Chemistry’s role in food production and sustainability: Past and present (Oxford University Press, 2020), reviewed by Catherine Price, p. 167
Reviews, Part 2
David Hinton, D. P. S. Peacock, and Christopher Dyer, Impinging on the past: A rescue excavation at Fladbury, Worcestershire, 1967 (The Highfield Press, 2020), reviewed by Mark McKerracher, p. 310
Andrew Margetts, The wandering herd. The medieval cattle economy of south-east England c.450–1450 (Windgather, 2021), reviewed by Paul Stamper, p. 311
Nigel Smith, The medieval park of Erringden (Hebden Bridge Local History Soc., Occ. Paper 10, 2021), reviewed by Fiona Beglane, p. 312
Margaret Willes, The domestic herbal: Plants for the home in the seventeenth century (Bodleian Library, 2020), reviewed by Leah Astbury, p. 312
Frances E. Dolan, Digging the past: How and why to imagine seventeenth-century agriculture (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020), reviewed by John Emrys Morgan, p. 314
Erin Drew, The usufructuary ethos: Power, politics, and environment in the long eighteenth century (University of Virginia Press, 2021), reviewed by Tess Somervell, p. 315
Thomas Almeroth-Williams, City of beasts: How animals shaped Georgian London (Manchester University Press, 2019), reviewed by Oliver Mumford, p. 316
Catherine Rice, Cottage gardens and gardeners in the east of Scotland, 1750–1914 (The Boydell Press, 2021), reviewed by John Davies, p. 317
Shaun Evans, Tony McCarthy and Annie Tindley (eds), Land reform in the British and Irish isles since 1800 (Edinburgh University Press, 2022), reviewed by Michael Tichelar, p. 318
Sébastien Rioux, The social cost of cheap food: Labour and the political economy of food distribution in Britain, 1830–1914 (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2020), reviewed by Carl J. Griffin, p. 319
Jonathan Spain, Fruit farming in the Cam Valley: an horticultural, social and economic history set in the regional and national context (Shepreth, RiverRhee Publishing, 2021), reviewed by Alan M. Wadsworth, p. 321
Will Abberley, Christina Alt, David Higgins, Graham Huggan and Pippa Marland, Modern British nature writing, 1789–2020: Land Lines (Cambridge University Press, 2022), reviewed by Terry Gifford, p. 322
Richard A. Gaunt (ed.), Church, land and people. Essays presented to John Beckett (Thoroton Society Record Series 50, 2020), reviewed by R. W. Hoyle, p. 323
Gerry Barnes and Tom Williamson, The orchards of Eastern England: History, ecology and place (University of Hertfordshire Press, 2021), reviewed by Susan Wilkin, p. 324
Patrick Grattan, Oasts and hop kilns: A history (Historic England / Liverpool University Press, 2021), reviewed by Alan M. Wadsworth, p. 325
David Johnson, Brickmaking: History and heritage (Amberley Publishing, 2021), reviewed by Alan M. Wadsworth, p. 326
Ben Marsh, Unravelled dreams: silk and the Atlantic World, 1500–1840 (Cambridge University Press, 2020), reviewed by Karolina Hutková, p. 327
Vijaya Ramadas Mandala, Shooting a tiger: Big-game hunting and conservation in colonial India (Oxford University Press, 2018), reviewed by Jessica Howell-Davis, p. 328
Tomasz Opaliński, Stan chłopski w Księstwie Warszawskim w świetle akt sądowych (DiG, 2021), reviewed by Łukasz Kożuchowski, p. 329
Giacomo Bonan, The State in the Forest. Contested commons in the nineteenth century Venetian Alps (White Horse Press, 2019), reviewed by Paul Warde, p. 330
Samiparna Samanta, Meat, mercy, and morality: Animals and humanitarianism in colonial Bengal, 1850–1920 (Oxford University Press, 2021), reviewed by Rebecca Ford, p. 331
Ben Bradley and Jodey Nurse (eds), Agriculture, food, and fuel markets in Canada, 1860s–1990s (Special Issue of Histoire sociale / Social History vol. 54, no. 111, September, 2021), reviewed by David Lloyd Bent, p. 333
Jonathan E. Robins, Oil palm: A global history (UNC Press, 2021), reviewed by Helena Varkkey, p. 334
Anneliese Abbott, Malabar Farm: Louis Bromfield, Friends of the Land, and the rise of sustainable agriculture (Kent State University Press, 2021), reviewed by Philip Conford, p. 335
Jacqueline A. Ignatova, Contesting Africa’s New Green Revolution: Biotechnology and philanthrocapitalist development in Ghana (Bloomsbury, 2021), reviewed by Harro Maat, p. 336

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