EAN: 9783319121840

NEW PERSPECTIVES ON THE HISTORY OF LIFE SCIENCE...

This volume explores problems in the history of science at the intersection of life sciences
and agriculture  from the mid-eighteenth to the mid-twentieth century. Taking a comparative
national perspective  the book examines agricultural practices in a broad sense  including the
practices and disciplines devoted to land management  forestry  soil science  and the
improvement and management of crops and livestock. The life sciences considered include
genetics  microbiology  ecology  entomology  forestry  and deal with US  European  Russian 
Japanese  Indonesian  Chinese contexts. The book shows that the investigation of the border
zone of life sciences and agriculture raises many interesting questions about how science
develops. In particular it challenges one to re-examine and take seriously the intimate
connection between scientific development and the practical goals of managing and improving ¿
perhaps even recreating ¿ the living world to serve human ends. Without close attention to this
zone it is not possible to understand the emergence of new disciplines and transformation of
old disciplines  to evaluate the role and impact of such major figures of science as Humboldt
and Mendel  or to appreciate how much of the history of modern biology has been driven by
national ambitions and imperialist expansion in competition with rival nations.

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