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Record Nr.

UNINA9910792463503321

Autore

Nimmo Richie

Titolo

Milk, modernity and the making of the human : purifying the social / / Richie Nimmo

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2010

ISBN

1-135-25964-X

1-135-25965-8

1-282-57648-8

9786612576485

0-203-86733-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (222 p.)

Collana

CRESC

Disciplina

306.3

Soggetti

Milk trade - Social aspects - Great Britain

Dairying - Social aspects - Great Britain

Human-animal relationships

Humanism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Modernity, humanity and nonhumans; 1 The anthropocentrism of 'culture': A critique of humanist discourse; 2 Milk and modernity Part I: Commodities, networks and monopolies; 3 Culture, order and disease in late nineteenth-century British dairying; 4 Purifying milk: Knowledge, sanitation and discipline; 5 Milk and modernity Part II: Measurement, rationalization and control; 6 Beyond 'culture' and 'nature': Towards a post-humanist knowledge; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book undertakes a critique of the pervasive notion that human beings are separate from and elevated above the nonhuman world and explores its role in the constitution of modernity.The book presents a socio-material analysis of the British milk industry in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It traces the dramatic development of the milk trade from a cottage industry into a modernised and integrated system of production and distribution,



examining the social, economic and political factors underpinning this transformation, and also highlighting the important