Planting Seeds of Knowledge

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.

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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, 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



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