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From Knowledge Transmission to Rural Reform ：The Development and
Transformation of American Agricultural Journals（1820—1920）

  

  1. School of History and Culture， Sichuan University， Chengdu， 610065
  • Online:2022-09-15 Published:2022-09-29

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Abstract:

From mid-nineteenth to early twentieth century， American agricultural journals， as
intellectual publications connecting urban and rural communities， had promoted the modernizing
transition of agriculture and rural society. Nevertheless， the nature and identity of agricultural
journals were not invariable， but gradually determined in their decades of development and
transformation. Antebellum agricultural journals over-ideally and dogmatically taught agricultural
knowledge， as their self-identity were vague. Postbellum agricultural journals， on the other
hand， started to transform to a role of “service worker”， with the goal of transmitting agricultural
knowledge established outside. They developed a new identity of rural reformer in the Progressive
Era， when they appealed for the construction of an urban-standard modern social life in the
countryside. These transformations eventually helped agricultural journals to be the most important
medium for knowledge diffusion， and as the time for reconciliation of cities and countries， industry
and agriculture within the capitalist system.

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