Planting seeds of knowledge agriculture and education in rural societies in the twentieth century
An imperial 'shrine' to agrarian research and education : decoding the Imperial Agricultural Research Institute, Pusa, in Bihar, 1905-36 / Preeti -- Transferring formal agricultural education to Liberia in the 1920s / Cassandra Mark-Thiesen -- 'The latest developments in agricultural...
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New York, Oxford
Berghahn
2023
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| Schriftenreihe: | The environment in history
volume 24 |
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | An imperial 'shrine' to agrarian research and education : decoding the Imperial Agricultural Research Institute, Pusa, in Bihar, 1905-36 / Preeti -- Transferring formal agricultural education to Liberia in the 1920s / Cassandra Mark-Thiesen -- 'The latest developments in agricultural knowledge and practice from the outside world' : UNRRA's agricultural rehabilitation work in Italy in the aftermath of the Second World War / Amalia Ribi Forclaz -- Building on old institutions : the agricultural extension service and village institutes in post-Second World War rural Turkey / Heinrich Hartmann -- Models for the village : prototypes for rural modernization in Poland and Yugoslavia, 1910-40 / Heiner Grunert -- Shifting priorities : Dutch agricultural education and local knowledge circulation, c. 1890-1970 / Ronald Plantinga and Harm Zwarts -- Missed encounters and unexpected connections : transatlantic crossings in the study of agricultural work, 1920-60 / Juri Auderset -- Putting down roots : rural youth clubs in Costa Rica and inter-American development cooperation, 1940-75 / Corinne A. Pernet -- The politics of rural domesticity in segregationist South Africa, 1902-48 / Julia Tischler -- Between war and productivity : facets of agricultural training and land restoration in the villages of northern Greek Macedonia from the civil war to the AMAG programmes (1944-53) / Kalliopi Geronymaki -- The sociability of scientific knowledge exchange in British farming, 1950-90 / Sally Horrocks, John Martin and Paul Merchant -- Creating 'bungereza' in former 'bukedi' : landscape, languages and markets in south-eastern Uganda, 1870s-2000s / John Doyle-Raso -- Agrarian colonization and indigenous 'integration' : the Cotoca project in Eastern Bolivia, 1955-62 / Georg Fische. "In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, agricultural practices and rural livelihoods were challenged by changes such as commercialization, intensified global trade, and rapid urbanization. Planting Seeds of Knowledge studies the relationship between these agricultural changes and knowledge-making through a transnational lens. Spanning exchanges between different parts of Europe, North and South America, the Indian subcontinent, and Africa, the wide-reaching contributions to this volume reform current historiography to show how local experiences redefined global practice"-- |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Beschreibung: | x, 353 Seiten |
| ISBN: | 9781805390107 978-1-80539-010-7 |