Science, practice and politics: German agricultural experiment stations in the nineteenth century

Finlay, Mark R.

doi:10.31274/rtd-180813-9379

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“…Intensification started on large estates of "enlightened" landlords who created "intensive" meadows and pastures by drainage, sowing selected species, and manuring ( Jepsen et al 2015 ). Agriculture in this region has been much influenced by German authors and practices ( Finlay 1992 ).…”

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Change in European Forage and Fodder Plant Indicator Sets over the Past 250 Years

Kotowski¹,

Kotowska²,

Biró³

et al. 2023

Rangeland Ecology & Management

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Change in European Forage and Fodder Plant Indicator Sets over the Past 250 Years

Kotowski¹,

Kotowska²,

Biró³

et al. 2023

Rangeland Ecology & Management

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“…For her dietary research, Richards joined forces with the Wesleyan professor of chemistry Wilbur Olin Atwater, the Boston laissez faire businessman and inventor Edward Atkinson, and food publicist Mary Hinman Abel. Atwater was a well-known chemist in nutrition research, who imported the caloric measurement system into the US (Finlay 1992;Rosenberg 1971). He studied at Wesleyan University in Connecticut, to which he returned as a professor after his chemistry degree from Yale in 1869 and his travels through Europe.…”

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Crossing the doorsteps for social reform: The social crusades of Florence Kelley and Ellen Richards

Soudan,

Philippy,

Maas

2021

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ArgumentThis paper contrasts the research strategies of two women reformers, Florence Kelley and Ellen Swallow Richards, which entailed different strategies of social reform. In the early 1890s, social activist Florence Kelley used the social survey as a weapon for legal reform of the working conditions of women and children in Chicago’s sweatshop system. Kelley’s case shows that her surveys were most effective as “grounded” knowledge, rooted in a local community with which she was well acquainted. Her social survey, re-enacted by lawmakers and the press, provided the evidence that moved her target audience to legal action. Chemist and propagator of the Home Economics Movement Ellen Richards situated the social problem, and hence its solution, not in exploitative working conditions, but in the inefficient and wasteful usage of available resources by the poor. Laboratory work, she argued, would enable the development of optimal standards, and educational programs should bring these standards to the household by means of models and exhibits. With this aim, she constructed public spaces that she ran as food laboratories and sanitary experiments. Kelley and Richards thus crossed the doorsteps of the household in very different ways. While Florence Kelley entered the household to change the living and working conditions of the poor by changing the law, Richards flipped the household inside out by bringing women into hybrid public laboratory spaces to change their behavior by experiment and instruction.

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“…Aside from a few exceptions (e.g. Finlay, 1992;Gayon & Zallen, 1998;Harwood, 2005), scholars interested in scientific and technological developments were reluctant to engage with agriculture, a field whose scientific boundaries are ambiguous and where research does not take place only in a controlled laboratory environment, but also in open fields.…”

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Then and Now: Re-positioning the History of Agriculture within the History of Science and Technology

Parolini¹

2020

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Twenty years ago, the history of agriculture was the Cinderella of the history of science and technology. Historians interested in scientific and technological developments were reluctant to engage with agriculture, a field whose scientific boundaries are ambiguous and where research does not take place only in a controlled laboratory environment, but also in open fields. Today the situation has greatly changed and a rich scholarship on the history of agriculture is emerging within the history of science and technology. This scholarship has repositioned the history of agriculture at the intersection of debates on science and technology, food and the environment, politics and society. The paper will highlight what has been achieved so far and sketch possible developments.

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Science, practice and politics: German agricultural experiment stations in the nineteenth century

Cited by 5 publications

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Change in European Forage and Fodder Plant Indicator Sets over the Past 250 Years

Change in European Forage and Fodder Plant Indicator Sets over the Past 250 Years

Crossing the doorsteps for social reform: The social crusades of Florence Kelley and Ellen Richards

Then and Now: Re-positioning the History of Agriculture within the History of Science and Technology

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