03152oam 2200697I 450 991079246350332120230207213404.01-135-25964-X1-135-25965-81-282-57648-897866125764850-203-86733-510.4324/9780203867334 (CKB)2670000000009354(EBL)484782(OCoLC)609856127(SSID)ssj0000363199(PQKBManifestationID)11248634(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000363199(PQKBWorkID)10387689(PQKB)11182408(MiAaPQ)EBC484782(Au-PeEL)EBL484782(CaPaEBR)ebr10371552(CaONFJC)MIL257648(OCoLC)610041700(EXLCZ)99267000000000935420180706d2010 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrMilk, modernity and the making of the human purifying the social /Richie NimmoLondon ;New York :Routledge,2010.1 online resource (222 p.)CRESCDescription based upon print version of record.0-415-81714-5 0-415-55874-3 Includes bibliographical references and index.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; IndexThis 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 importantCRESCMilk tradeSocial aspectsGreat BritainDairyingSocial aspectsGreat BritainHuman-animal relationshipsHumanismMilk tradeSocial aspectsDairyingSocial aspectsHuman-animal relationships.Humanism.306.3Nimmo Richie.1559765MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910792463503321Milk, modernity and the making of the human3825207UNINA