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The Enclosure of Knowledge - Books, Power and Agrarian Capitalism in Britain, 1660-1800 (Hardcover)
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The Enclosure of Knowledge - Books, Power and Agrarian Capitalism in Britain, 1660-1800 (Hardcover)
Series: Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History
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The rise of agrarian capitalism in Britain is usually told as a
story about markets, land and wages. The Enclosure of Knowledge
reveals that it was also about books, knowledge and expertise. It
argues that during the early modern period, farming books were a
key tool in the appropriation of the traditional art of husbandry
possessed by farm workers of all kinds. It challenges the dominant
narrative of an agricultural 'enlightenment', in which books merely
spread useful knowledge, by showing how codified knowledge was used
to assert greater managerial control over land and labour. The
proliferation of printed books helped divide mental and manual
labour to facilitate emerging social divisions between labourers,
managers and landowners. The cumulative effect was the slow
enclosure of customary knowledge. By synthesising diverse
theoretical insights, this study opens up a new social history of
agricultural knowledge and reinvigorates long-term histories of
knowledge under capitalism.
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