Reviews
"Historical, social, economic, and cultural forces intersected to shape Pennsylvania's agricultural landscapes. Pennsylvania Farming shows how common farm buildings and landscape features such as cisterns, contour strips, and tree lines can be 'read' to reveal a complex layered history that offers a fresh perspective on modern-day issues such as sustainability, local foods, diversification, and small-scale agriculture." --Gabrielle M. Lanier, James Madison University, "An outstanding contribution to scholarship on Pennsylvania's historic agriculture. It merges lively writing with a careful analysis of documentary sources and field research on the state's buildings and landscapes. The book explores one of the nation's oldest and most complex ecological and cultural regions to arrive at sensible explanations about why things in the Keystone State look the way they do and how they got that way." --Ritchie Garrison, Director, Winterthur Program in American Material Culture, and Professor of History at the University of Delaware, "An outstanding contribution to scholarship on Pennsylvania's historic agriculture. It merges lively writing with a careful analysis of documentary sources and field research on the state's buildings and landscapes. The book explores one of the nation's oldest and most complex ecological and cultural regions to arrive at sensible explanations about why rural landscapes in the Keystone State look the way they do and how they got that way." --Ritchie Garrison, Director, Winterthur Program in American Material Culture, and Professor of History at the University of Delaware, "Historical, social, economic, and cultural forces intersected to shape Pennsylvania's agricultural landscapes. Pennsylvania Farming shows how common farm buildings and landscape features such as cisterns, contour strips, and tree lines can be 'read' to reveal a complex layered history that offers a historical perspective on modern-day issues such as sustainability, local foods, diversification, and small-scale agriculture." --Gabrielle M. Lanier, James Madison University, "Historical, social, economic, and cultural forces intersected to shape Pennsylvania's agricultural landscapes. Pennsylvania Farming shows how common farm buildings and landscape features such as cisterns, contour strips, and tree lines can be 'read' to reveal a complex layered history that offers a historical perspective on modern-day issues such as sustainability, local foods, diversification, and small-scale agriculture." --Gabrielle M. Lanier, James Madison University , "An outstanding contribution to scholarship on Pennsylvania's historic agriculture. It merges lively writing with a careful analysis of documentary sources and field research on the state's buildings and landscapes. The book explores one of the nation's oldest and most complex ecological and cultural regions to arrive at sensible explanations about why things in the Keystone State look the way they do and how they got that way." --Ritchie Garrison, Director, Winterthur Program in American Material Culture, and Professor of History at the University of Delaware