Heinrich Hartmann & Julia Tischler 
Planting Seeds of Knowledge [PDF ebook] 
Agriculture and Education in Rural Societies in the Twentieth Century

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

Julia Tischler is an associate professor of African History and co-director of the Center for African Studies at the University of Basel, Switzerland. Her first monograph, Light and Power for a Multiracial Nation (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), dealt with the history of the Kariba Dam on the border between Zambia and Zimbabwe.