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  • Cultivating Race

    Transatlantic Agricultural Reform in South Africa, c. 1900–1950

    Simultaneous to the rise of industrial capitalism, agriculture - still the mainstay of most human communities around the globe in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries - underwent dramatic changes. In many countries, including most settler economies, a large-scale, input-heavy, and increasingly mechanized commercial agricultural sector emerged, while scores of struggling rural ... Read more

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  • Grounding Global Climate Change

    Contributions from the Social and Cultural Sciences

    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book traces the evolution of climate change research, which, long dominated by the natural sciences, now sees greater involvement with disciplines studying the socio-cultural implications of change. In their introduction, the editors chart the changing role of the social and cultural sciences, delineating three strands of research: socio-critical approaches which connect climate change to a ... Read more

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  • Modernization as Spectacle in Africa

    For postcolonial Africa, modernization was seen as a necessary outcome of the struggle for independence and as crucial to the success of its newly established states. Since then, the rhetoric of modernization has pervaded policy, culture, and development, lending a kind of political theatricality to nationalist framings of modernization and Africans' perceptions of their place in the global ... Read more

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  • Planting Seeds of Knowledge

    Agriculture and Education in Rural Societies in the Twentieth Century

    Series Book 24 - Environment in History: International Perspectives
    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, ... Read more

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