教学大纲
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本课程思考20世纪农业和食品生产系统中的科学与技术的结合。其中一个基本的思想是，当事物被工业化和定量配置之后，它们就会遵循特定的历史模式，在不同的地方一次又一次地重演。然而，另一个基本思想是，当地的情况并不完全适合发展后的模式，所以历史学家必须认真地对待各方面之间的区别，宏观和微观的，普遍和特殊的，国家和农民之间的。我们将通过阅读有关乡野生活，科学机构，技术和管理创新，农业生产，美国及第三世界国家的政治这些方面的历史学及人类学论文来理解以上问题。
要求
学生必须出席每一堂课，为讨论指定的阅读资料作准备并轮流主持每周的讨论。虽然这门课没有考试，但是每位学生都必须就自己感兴趣的话题写一篇原创的研究论文，或者在参考一批课外阅读书的基础上写一篇书目论文。
This class considers the intersection of science and technology with agriculture and food production systems in the 20th century. A basic premise is that, when things become industrialized and rationalized, they follow particular historical patterns that tend to play themselves out over and over in different locations. Another premise, however, is that local circumstances never quite fit the patterns that have evolved, and historians must pay close attention to the differences between the micro and the macro, the universal and the particular, the state and the farmer. We attempt to understand these things by reading historical and anthropological essays on the relation between rural life, scientific institutions, technological and managerial innovations, agricultural production, and politics in America and the third world.
Requirements
Students are required to attend all classes and be prepared to discuss the assigned readings. Students take turns leading the weekly discussions. Although there are no exams, each student must write either an original research paper on a topic of interest to the student or a bibliographic essay on a set of outside readings.
