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Science Cultivating Practice

A History of Agricultural Science in the Netherlands and its Colonies, 1863–1986

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  • © 2001

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Authors:
  1. Harro Maat

    1. Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Introduction

    • Harro Maat
    Pages 1-25

  3. Science and Agriculture in the Nineteenth Century

    • Harro Maat
    Pages 27-44

  4. The Organisation of Agricultural Research

    • Harro Maat
    Pages 45-76

  5. Scientific Education for Agriculture

    • Harro Maat
    Pages 77-116

  6. Genetics and Plant Breeding: Wheat in the Netherlands

    • Harro Maat
    Pages 117-142

  7. Rice Breeding in the Dutch Colonies

    • Harro Maat
    Pages 143-172

  8. Numerical Abstraction in Agricultural Science

    • Harro Maat
    Pages 173-207

  9. Conclusion and Postscript

    • Harro Maat
    Pages 209-229

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 231-249
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About this book

Science Cultivating Practice is an institutional history of agricultural science in the Netherlands and its overseas territories. The focus of this study is the variety of views about a proper relationship between science and (agricultural) practice. Such views and plans materialised in the overall organisation of research and education. Moreover, the book provides case studies of genetics and plant breeding in the Netherlands, colonial rice breeding, and agricultural statistics. Ideas affected the organisation as much as the other way round. The net result was an institutional development in which the values of academic science were rated higher than the values of practice.
This book is a distinctive piece of work as it treats the dynamics of science in a European as well as in a colonial context. These different ecological and social environments lead to other forms of knowledge and experimentation as well as other ways of organising science.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands

    Harro Maat

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Science Cultivating Practice

  • Book Subtitle: A History of Agricultural Science in the Netherlands and its Colonies, 1863–1986

  • Authors: Harro Maat

  • Series Title: The International Library of Environmental, Agricultural and Food Ethics

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2954-3

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2001

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-0113-0Published: 31 December 2001

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-5864-5Published: 08 December 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-017-2954-3Published: 17 April 2013

  • Series ISSN: 1570-3010

  • Series E-ISSN: 2215-1737

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VIII, 250

  • Topics: History, general, Agriculture, Plant Sciences

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