New Perspectives on the History of Life Sciences and Agriculture

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Plants and Places: Agricultural Knowledge and Plant Geography in Germany, 1750–1810

Chapter 3 Drawing the Line: Mapping Cultivated Plants and Seeing Nature in Nineteenth-Century Plant Geography

Chapter 4 Rose and Pear Breeding in Nineteenth-Century France: The Practice and Science of Diversity

Chapter 5 Napoleonic Cotton Cultivation: A Case Study in Scientific Expertise and Agricultural Innovation in France and Italy, 1806–1814

Chapter 6 Whale Oil Pesticide: Natural History, Animal Resources, and Agriculture in Early Modern Japan

Chapter 7 Forests, Climate, and the Rise of Scientific Forestry in Russia: From Local Knowledge and Natural History to Modern Experiments (1840s–early 1890s)

Chapter 8 The Rise of Applied Entomology in the Russian Empire: Governmental, Public, and Academic Responses to Insect Pest Outbreaks from 1840 to 1894

Chapter 9 Nutrition Science and the Practice of Animal Feeding in Germany, 1850–1880

Chapter 10 Artificial or Biological? Nature, Fertilizer, and the German Origins of Organic Agriculture

Chapter 11 Science, Promotion, and Scandal: Soil Bacteriology, Legume Inoculation, and the American Campaign for Soil Improvement in the Progressive Era

Chapter 12 Mold Cultures: Traditional Industry and Microbial Studies in Early Twentieth-Century Japan

Chapter 13 The Coproduction of Station Morphology and Agricultural Management in the Tropics: Transformations in Botany at the Botanical Garden at Buitenzorg, Java 1880–1904

Chapter 14 Regionalizing Knowledge: The Ecological Approach of the USDA Office of Dryland Agriculture on the Great Plains

Chapter 15 Rexford F. Daubenmire and the Ecology of Place: Applied Ecology in the Mid-Twentieth-Century American West

Chapter 16 Agricultural Improvement at China’s First Agricultural Experiment Stations

Chapter 17 Did Mendelism Transform Plant Breeding? Genetic Theory and Breeding Practice, 1900–1945

Chapter 18 Chicken Breeding: The Complex Transition from Traditional to Genetic Methods in the USA

Chapter 19 New Perspectives on the History of Life Sciences and Agriculture

Chapter 20 More than Metamorphosis: The Silkworm Experiments of Toyama Kametarō and his Cultivation of Genetic Thought in Japan’s Sericultural Practices, 1894–1918

Chapter 21 New Perspectives on the History of Life Sciences and Agriculture

Chapter 22 Speeding Up Evolution: X-Rays and Plant Breeding in the United States, 1925–1935

Chapter 23 Watching Grass Grow: The Emergence of Brachypodium distachyon as a Model for the Poaceae