| Book Review | Environmental History, 11.2

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Book Review

William J. Spillman and the Birth of Agricultural Economics. By Laurie Winn Carlson. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2005. 210 pp. Illustrations, appendices, bibliography, index. $39.95.

Agricultural economics is a field that holds great potential for scholars interested in the environmental effects of agriculture. As Henry C. Taylor defined it in his canonical textbook Agricultural Economics (The Macmillian Company, 1920, p. 6), the field embraces "the selection of land, labor, and equipments for a farm, the choice of crops to be grown, the selection of live stock enterprises to be carried on, and the whole question of the proportions in which all these agencies should be combined." Laurie Winn Carlson's biography of W. J. Spillman adds a long-neglected chapter to the history of the development of agricultural economics, tracing the career of one of the pioneers of farm management from the 1880s through the early 1930s.

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