The Enclosure of Knowledge Fisher James D.
The Enclosure of Knowledge Fisher James D. The rise of agrarian capitalism in Britain is usually told as a story about markets, land and wages. It argues that during the early modern period, farming…
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The Enclosure of Knowledge Fisher James D.
The rise of agrarian capitalism in Britain is usually told as a story about markets, land and wages. It argues that during the early modern period, farming books were a key tool in the appropriation of the traditional art of husbandry possessed by farm workers of all kinds. The Enclosure of Knowledge reveals that it was also about books, knowledge and expertise.
The proliferation of printed books helped divide mental and manual labour to facilitate emerging social divisions between labourers, managers and landowners. It challenges the dominant narrative of an agricultural 'enlightenment', in which books merely spread useful knowledge, by showing how codified knowledge was used to assert greater managerial control over land and labour. The cumulative effect was the slow enclosure of customary knowledge.
By synthesising diverse theoretical insights, this study opens up a new social
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