Book reviewed in this article:Review Essay Global Agriculture and Food: Libby, Ronald T. Protecting Markets.Review Essay Global Agriculture and Food: Fletcher, Lehman B. (ed.). World Food in the 1990s: Production, Trade and Aid.Review Essay Global Agriculture and Food: Schmandt, Jurgen, Frederick Williams, Robert H. Wilson, and Sharon Strover (eds.). Telecommunications and Rural Development: A Study of Private and Public Sector Innovation.Review Essay Global Agriculture and Food: Korsching, Peter F., Timothy O. Borich, and Julie Stewart (eds.). Multicommunity Collaboration: An Evolving Rural Revitalization Strategy.Review Essay Global Agriculture and Food: Buse, Rueben C., and James L. Driscoll (eds.). Rural Information Systems: New Directions in Data Collection and Retrieval.Review Essay Global Agriculture and Food: Flora, Cornelia Butler, Jan L. Flora, Jacqueline D. Spears, and Louis E. Swanson, with Mark B. Lapping and Mark L. Weinberg. Rural Communities: Legacy and Change.Rural Development: Straub, Lavonne A., and Norman Walzer (eds.). Rural Health Care: Innovation in a Changing Environment.Rural Development: Reidy, Joseph P. From Slavery to Agrarian Capitalism in the Cotton Plantation South: Central Georgia, 1800–1880.Rural Development: Davidson, Osha Gray. Broken Heartland: The Rise of America's Rural Ghetto.Regional Studies: Cobb, James C. The Most Southern Place on Earth: The Mississippi Delta and the Roots of Regional Identity.Regional Studies: Thompson, Paul B. The Ethics of Aid and Trade: U.S. Food Policy, Foreign Competition, and the Social Contract.International Trade: Dicken, Peter. Global Shift: The Internationalization of Economic Activity (2nd ed.).International Trade: Satzewich, Vic. Racism and the Incorporation of Foreign Labour: Farm Labour Migration to Canada Since 1945.Environmental Issues: Croll, Elisabeth, and David Parkin (eds.). Bush Base, Forest Farm: Culture, Environment and Development.Environmental Issues: Krimsky, Sheldon, and Dominic Golding (eds.). Social Theories of Risk.