Book contents
- The Enclosure of Knowledge
- Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History
- The Enclosure of Knowledge
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgements
- Notes
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Rethinking Agricultural Books, Knowledge and Labour
- Chapter 2 Learning without Books
- Chapter 3 Standing on the Shoulders of Peasants
- Chapter 4 Learning without Labour
- Chapter 5 Dividing Head and Hand
- Chapter 6 Monopolising Knowledge
- Chapter 7 The Master Should Know More
- Conclusion
- Appendix
- Bibliography
- Index
Chapter 6 - Monopolising Knowledge
Professionalisation, Education and Stewards
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 July 2022
- The Enclosure of Knowledge
- Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History
- The Enclosure of Knowledge
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgements
- Notes
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Rethinking Agricultural Books, Knowledge and Labour
- Chapter 2 Learning without Books
- Chapter 3 Standing on the Shoulders of Peasants
- Chapter 4 Learning without Labour
- Chapter 5 Dividing Head and Hand
- Chapter 6 Monopolising Knowledge
- Chapter 7 The Master Should Know More
- Conclusion
- Appendix
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Chapter 6 explores the efforts to institutionalise a new book-based expertise through the professionalisation of agriculture. First, it considers the reimagining of agriculture as a learned profession through contemporary analogies with medicine. Second, it examines how books were envisioned as part of a new system of learning by analysing proposals for educational reform. Third, it examines the development of the estate or land steward as an example of an agricultural profession that came to be defined by possession of universal book-based knowledge, through an analysis of manuals for stewards. It argues that while the vision of professionalised agriculture was only partly achieved, it reveals the scope of ambition of agricultural authors in their determination to monopolise knowledge.
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- The Enclosure of KnowledgeBooks, Power and Agrarian Capitalism in Britain, 1660–1800, pp. 205 - 228Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022