"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"--
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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Acknowledgements
Introduction: Planting Seeds of Knowledge: Agriculture and Education in
Rural Societies in the Twentieth Century
Heinrich Hartmann and Julia Tischler
Part I: In Institutions: Brokering Contested Knowledge
Chapter
1. An Imperial Shrine to Agrarian Research and Education: Decoding
the Imperial Agricultural Research Institute, Pusa, in Bihar, 190536
Preeti
Chapter
2. Transferring Formal Agricultural Education to Liberia in the
1920s
Cassandra Mark-Thiesen
Chapter
3. The Latest Developments in Agricultural Knowledge and Practice
from the Outside World: UNRRAs Agricultural Rehabilitation Work in Italy in
the Aftermath of the Second World War
Amalia Ribi Forclaz
Chapter
4. Building on Old Institutions: The Agricultural Extension Service
and Village Institutes in Post-Second World War Rural Turkey
Heinrich Hartmann
Part II: Across Borders: Transnational Expertise and Entangled Bodies of
Knowledge
Chapter
5. Models for the Village: Prototypes for Rural Modernization in
Poland and Yugoslavia, 191040
Heiner Grunert
Chapter
6. Shifting Priorities: Dutch Agricultural Education and Local
Knowledge Circulation, c. 18901970
Ronald Plantinga and Harm Zwarts
Chapter
7. Missed Encounters and Unexpected Connections: Transatlantic
Crossings in the Study of Agricultural Work, 192060
Juri Auderset
Chapter
8. Putting Down Roots: Rural Youth Clubs in Costa Rica and
Inter-American Development Cooperation, 194075
Corinne A. Pernet
Part III: On the Ground: Translating Bodies of Knowledge in Rural
Communities
Chapter
9. The Politics of Rural Domesticity in Segregationist South Africa,
190248
Julia Tischler
Chapter
10. 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 (194453)
Kalliopi Geronymaki
Chapter
11. The Sociability of Scientific Knowledge Exchange in British
Farming, 195090
Sally Horrocks, John Martin and Paul Merchant
Chapter
12. Creating Bungereza in Former Bukedi: Landscape, Languages
and Markets in South-Eastern Uganda, 1870s2000s
John Doyle-Raso
Chapter
13. Agrarian Colonization and Indigenous Integration: The Cotoca
Project in Eastern Bolivia, 195562
Georg Fischer
Index
Heinrich Hartmann is a Heisenberg Professor for Social and Economic History and the History of Technology at the Helmut Schmidt University in Hamburg. He has written a monograph, Eigensinnige Musterschüler (Campus Verlag, 2020), on expert knowledge in Turkish rural development in the twentieth century.
