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Title: Indian Agriculture in America: Prehistory to the Present by R. Douglas Hurt ISBN: 0-7006-0802-8 Publisher: University Press of Kansas Pub. Date: 01 August, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $17.95

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Average Customer Rating: 2 (1 review)

Rating: 2
Summary: Could've been, should've been better.
Comment: This book is a broad survey based for the most part on secondary sources. Good surveys should do two things; they should reflect the depth of the literature on the topic and they should unite what is often an inchoate literature into a unified study. This title accomplishes neither of these goals. Particularly the chapters on prehistoric American Indian agriculture are based on a rather thin reading of the literature. One might think a book w/ this title couldn't dodge major scholarly debates such as the one concerning the magnitude of the influence of Mesoamerica on North American agriculture, but it does. The chapters concerning American Indian agriculture in the 19th and 20th centuries are better, though I'd hardly call them definitive. Considering the book is well organized and clearly written, it is ashame the author's skills weren't complemented by more thorough research and deeper reflection.