Planting seeds of knowledge : agriculture and education in rural societies in the twentieth century /: agriculture and education in rural societies in the twentieth century. (2023)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Heinrich Hartmann, Julia Tischler.
• Editors: (Professor of history), Hartmann, Heinrich; Tischler, Julia, 1982-
• Contents: List of Illustrations, Maps, and Tables; 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, 1905–36; 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’: UNRRA’s 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, 1910–40; Heiner Grunert Chapter 6. Shifting Priorities: Dutch Agricultural Education and Local Knowledge Circulation, c. 1890–1970; Ronald Plantinga and Harm Zwarts Chapter 7. Missed Encounters and Unexpected Connections: Transatlantic Crossings in the Study of Agricultural Work, 1920–60; Juri Auderset Chapter 8. Putting Down Roots: Rural Youth Clubs in Costa Rica and Inter-American Development Cooperation, 1940–75; 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, 1902–48; 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 (1944–53); Kalliopi Geronymaki Chapter 11. The Sociability of Scientific Knowledge Exchange in British Farming, 1950–90; Sally Horrocks, John Martin and Paul Merchant Chapter 12. Creating ‘Bungereza’ in Former ‘Bukedi’: Landscape, Languages and Markets in South-Eastern Uganda, 1870s–2000s; John Doyle-Raso Chapter 13. Agrarian Colonization and Indigenous ‘Integration’: The Cotoca Project in Eastern Bolivia, 1955–62; Georg Fischer Index
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: New York : Berghahn Books
• Publication Date: 2023
• Extent: 1 online resource (366 pages)
• Subjects: 630.71; Agricultural education -- History -- 20th century; Agriculture -- Research -- History -- 20th century; Education, Rural -- History -- 20th century
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781805390114
• Related ISBNs: 9781805390107
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.
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