Science Cultivating Practice: A History of Agricultural Science in the Netherlands and Its Colonies, 1863-1986 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781402001130)

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.

Author: H. Maat
ISBN-10: 1402001134
ISBN-13: 9781402001130
Publisher: Springer
Language: English
Published: 12/31/2001
Pages: 250
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.19lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.63d