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

• Autore: Nimmo Richie
• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2010
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (222 p.)
• Disciplina: 306.3
• Soggetto topico: Milk trade - Social aspects - Great Britain; Dairying - Social aspects - Great Britain; Human-animal relationships; Humanism
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Milk, modernity and the making of the human
• ISBN: 1-135-25964-X; 1-135-25965-8; 1-282-57648-8; 9786612576485; 0-203-86733-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910792463503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: CRESC