Toward a Global History of Soil : Sciences, Practices, and Materialities, 1300-1750 (Agriculture and the Making of Sciences 1100-1700)

Niermeier-Dohoney, Justin (EDT)/ Shopov, Aleksandar (EDT)

Brill（2025/12発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 288 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9789004727489

Full Description

Toward a Global History of Soil unearths material expertise about soil in the early modern world that has remained largely unexamined outside of the study of agricultural history. Its eleven chapters reveal how experimental investigations transformed the economics of land administration, the treatment of disease, and hydraulic engineering. New methodologies to evaluate the productive qualities of soil led to radical changes in medicine, chemistry, botany, and household management. This book is the first to examine how the emergence of practical, systematic attempts to understand the nature of soil contributed to the development of early modern sciences.

Contents

Contents

Acknowledgments

List of Illustrations and Tables

Notes on Contributors

Introduction: Toward a Global History of Soil

 Sciences, Practices, and Materialities, 1300-1750

 Justin Niermeier-Dohoney and Aleksandar Shopov

Part 1: Translation and Transmission of Soil Knowledge

1 Imageries of Soil Practices in the Kashmiri-Language Mystical Poetry of Shaykh Nuruddin (1370-1440) and Their Journey to the Persian Textual Tradition

Between Agriculture and Sufi Mysticism

 Zubair Khalid

 2 Soil Transformations in the Codex Vergara and the Codex de Santa María Asunción
The "Good Farmers" of Sixteenth-Century Mexico

 Sarah Newman

Part 2: Soil, Medicine, and the Body

3 Improving Soil and Healing the Body in Mamluk Egypt

Bird Droppings as a Universal Remedy

 Heba Mahmoud Saad Abdelnaby

4 Soil Treatment in Two Late Ming Farming Manuals

Soil as Body

 Jörg Henning Hüsemann

Part 3: Governing the Soil: Taxonomy, Expertise, and the State

 5 Understanding Soil in Ilkhanid and Post-Ilkhanid filāḥa Books (1300-1600)

 Himmet Taşkömür

6 Building Innovative Soil Knowledge to Improve Iberian Agriculture (16-18th Century)

 Alberto González Remuiñán and Dulce Freire

7 Agricultural Manuals and the Economic Taxonomy of Soils in Early Modern Poland

The Price of Soil Knowledge

 Monika Kozłowska-Szyc

Part 4: Soil, Specialization, and Experimental Culture

8 Marl and Alchemical Theories of Soil Fertility in Early Modern England

Transmuting the Soil

 Justin Niermeier-Dohoney

9 Mastering the Soil and Measuring Flow in Early Modern Istanbul

 Deniz Karakaş

 10 Three Seventeenth-Century Ottoman Books on Flowers (Şükūfe-nāme), Flower Breeding (terbiye-i ezhar), and the New Science of Soil in Istanbul

 Aleksandar Shopov and Himmet Taşkömür

11 Taste and the Quality of Soil in Early Modern South Asia

Flavors of Fertility

 Nicolas Roth

Index