Heinrich Hartmann is a Heisenberg Professor for Social and Economic History and the History of Technology at the Helmut Schmidt University in Hamburg. He has written a monograph, Eigensinnige Musterschüler (Campus Verlag, 2020), on expert knowledge in Turkish rural development in the twentieth century.

• List of Illustrations, Maps, and TablesAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Planting Seeds of Knowledge: Agriculture and Education in Rural Societies in the Twentieth CenturyHeinrich Hartmann and Julia TischlerPart I: In Institutions: Brokering Contested KnowledgeChapter 1. An Imperial ‘Shrine’ to Agrarian Research and Education: Decoding the Imperial Agricultural Research Institute, Pusa, in Bihar, 1905–36PreetiChapter 2. Transferring Formal Agricultural Education to Liberia in the 1920sCassandra Mark-ThiesenChapter 3. ‘The Latest Developments in Agricultural Knowledge and Practice from the Outside World’: UNRRA’s Agricultural Rehabilitation Work in Italy in the Aftermath of the Second World WarAmalia Ribi ForclazChapter 4. Building on Old Institutions: The Agricultural Extension Service and Village Institutes in Post-Second World War Rural TurkeyHeinrich HartmannPart II: Across Borders: Transnational Expertise and Entangled Bodies of KnowledgeChapter 5. Models for the Village: Prototypes for Rural Modernization in Poland and Yugoslavia, 1910–40Heiner GrunertChapter 6. Shifting Priorities: Dutch Agricultural Education and Local Knowledge Circulation, c. 1890–1970Ronald Plantinga and Harm ZwartsChapter 7. Missed Encounters and Unexpected Connections: Transatlantic Crossings in the Study of Agricultural Work, 1920–60Juri AudersetChapter 8. Putting Down Roots: Rural Youth Clubs in Costa Rica and Inter-American Development Cooperation, 1940–75Corinne A. PernetPart III: On the Ground: Translating Bodies of Knowledge in Rural CommunitiesChapter 9. The Politics of Rural Domesticity in Segregationist South Africa, 1902–48Julia TischlerChapter 10. Between War and Productivity: Facets of Agricultural Training and Land Restoration in the Villages of Northern Greek Macedonia from the Civil War to the AMAG Programmes (1944–53)Kalliopi GeronymakiChapter 11. The Sociability of Scientific Knowledge Exchange in British Farming, 1950–90Sally Horrocks, John Martin and Paul MerchantChapter 12. Creating ‘Bungereza’ in Former ‘Bukedi’: Landscape, Languages and Markets in South-Eastern Uganda, 1870s–2000sJohn Doyle-RasoChapter 13. Agrarian Colonization and Indigenous ‘Integration’: The Cotoca Project in Eastern Bolivia, 1955–62Georg FischerIndex

“Overall, the volume shows a variety of experiences using the example of the agricultural circulation of knowledge. Great framework narratives of modernization lose plausibility when one reads them. This creates a detailed picture of global practices and knowledge in the agricultural sector, which did not follow a uniform pattern of progress, but whose contradictions and failures were often similar.” • H-Soz-Kult