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UNINA9910458979903321 |
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Autore |
Nimmo Richie |
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Titolo |
Milk, modernity and the making of the human : purifying the social / / Richie Nimmo |
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London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2010 |
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1-135-25964-X |
1-135-25965-8 |
1-282-57648-8 |
9786612576485 |
0-203-86733-5 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (222 p.) |
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Collana |
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Disciplina |
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Milk trade - Social aspects - Great Britain |
Dairying - Social aspects - Great Britain |
Human-animal relationships |
Humanism |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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UNISA996214094403316 |
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Child welfare |
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[New York], : Child Welfare League of America |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (volumes) : illustrations |
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Child welfare - United States |
Child Welfare |
Enfants - Protection, assistance, etc |
Child welfare |
Periodical |
Periodicals. |
United States |
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Periodico |
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