The Enclosure of Knowledge: Books, Power and Agrarian Capitalism in Britain, 1660-1800

ISBN-13: 9781316517987 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022

James D. Fisher

Opis

Challenges the dominant narrative of an agricultural 'enlightenment', showing how farming books appropriated traditional knowledge in pre-industrial Britain.

Spis treści

Introduction: Pen over Plough; 1. Rethinking Agricultural Books, Knowledge and Labour; 2. Learning without Books: The Mystery of Husbandry; 3. Standing on the Shoulders of Peasants: The Appropriation of the Art of Husbandry; 4. Learning without Labour: Codification and Managerial Knowledge; 5. Dividing Head & Hand: Gentleman Farmers, Agriculturists and Expertise; 6. Monopolising Knowledge: Professionalisation, Education and Stewards; 7. The Master Should Know More: Book-Farming, Power and Resistance; Conclusion: New Histories of Knowledge.