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  • Chapter 6 - Monopolising Knowledge

  • James D. Fisher, University of Exeter
  • Book:
    The Enclosure of Knowledge
    Published online:
    07 July 2022
    Print publication:
    21 July 2022, pp 205-228

  • 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.