Toward a Global History of Soil
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-72748-9 (ISBN)
Toward a Global History of Soil unearths material expertise about soil in the early modern world that has remained largely unexamined outside of the study of agricultural history. Its eleven chapters reveal how experimental investigations transformed the economics of land administration, the treatment of disease, and hydraulic engineering. New methodologies to evaluate the productive qualities of soil led to radical changes in medicine, chemistry, botany, and household management. This book is the first to examine how the emergence of practical, systematic attempts to understand the nature of soil contributed to the development of early modern sciences.
Justin Niermeier-Dohoney, Ph.D. (2018), University of Chicago, is an Assistant Professor of History at the Florida Institute of Technology. His research focuses on the history of early modern science with concentration on alchemy, agriculture, climate, and the environment. Aleksandar Shopov, Ph.D. (2016), Harvard University, is an Assistant Professor in the History Department at Binghamton University. He works on early modern Ottoman knowledge and practices related to plants, including such topics as flower breeding, grafting, urban farming, and riziculture.
Contents
Acknowledgments
List of Illustrations and Tables
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: Toward a Global History of Soil
Sciences, Practices, and Materialities, 1300–1750
Justin Niermeier-Dohoney and Aleksandar Shopov
Part 1: Translation and Transmission of Soil Knowledge
1 Imageries of Soil Practices in the Kashmiri-Language Mystical Poetry of Shaykh Nuruddin (1370–1440) and Their Journey to the Persian Textual Tradition
Between Agriculture and Sufi Mysticism
Zubair Khalid
2 Soil Transformations in the Codex Vergara and the Codex de Santa María Asunción
The “Good Farmers” of Sixteenth-Century Mexico
Sarah Newman
Part 2: Soil, Medicine, and the Body
3 Improving Soil and Healing the Body in Mamluk Egypt
Bird Droppings as a Universal Remedy
Heba Mahmoud Saad Abdelnaby
4 Soil Treatment in Two Late Ming Farming Manuals
Soil as Body
Jörg Henning Hüsemann
Part 3: Governing the Soil: Taxonomy, Expertise, and the State
5 Understanding Soil in Ilkhanid and Post-Ilkhanid filāḥa Books (1300–1600)
Himmet Taşkömür
6 Building Innovative Soil Knowledge to Improve Iberian Agriculture (16–18th Century)
Alberto González Remuiñán and Dulce Freire
7 Agricultural Manuals and the Economic Taxonomy of Soils in Early Modern Poland
The Price of Soil Knowledge
Monika Kozłowska-Szyc
Part 4: Soil, Specialization, and Experimental Culture
8 Marl and Alchemical Theories of Soil Fertility in Early Modern England
Transmuting the Soil
Justin Niermeier-Dohoney
9 Mastering the Soil and Measuring Flow in Early Modern Istanbul
Deniz Karakaş
10 Three Seventeenth-Century Ottoman Books on Flowers (Şükūfe-nāme), Flower Breeding (terbiye-i ezhar), and the New Science of Soil in Istanbul
Aleksandar Shopov and Himmet Taşkömür
11 Taste and the Quality of Soil in Early Modern South Asia
Flavors of Fertility
Nicolas Roth
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 23.12.2025 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Agriculture and the Making of Sciences 1100-1700 ; 01 |
| Verlagsort | Leiden |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 155 x 235 mm |
| Gewicht | 617 g |
| Themenwelt | Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie |
| Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geologie | |
| Weitere Fachgebiete ► Land- / Forstwirtschaft / Fischerei | |
| ISBN-10 | 90-04-72748-5 / 9004727485 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-90-04-72748-9 / 9789004727489 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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