Ebert Adam
Mount Mercy University, Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
Agric Hist. 2011;85(3):322-43. doi: 10.3098/ah.2011.85.3.322.
This essay expands and refines academic knowledge of English beekeeping during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Scientific beekeeping focused on improvement, which, in turn, depended on the dissemination of ideas and practices. This analysis, therefore, encompasses the mentalities and tactics of popularizers. The article also identifies two neglected concepts in the popularization campaign. First, popularizers saw scientific beekeeping as a way to end the tradition of killing the bees in order to safely harvest. Second, they sought to promote a rural industry for the economic welfare of the nation. The case study of Exeter's Western Apiarian Society reveals precisely how popularization functioned in reality. The result is a more thorough history of scientific beekeeping and how the rhetoric of improvement related to the culture of practice.
本文拓展并完善了关于17和18世纪英国养蜂业的学术知识。科学养蜂注重改进，而这又依赖于思想和实践的传播。因此，本分析涵盖了推广者的心态和策略。文章还指出了推广活动中两个被忽视的概念。首先，推广者将科学养蜂视为一种结束为安全收获而杀死蜜蜂这一传统的方式。其次，他们试图推动一项农村产业以促进国家的经济福祉。对埃克塞特西部养蜂协会的案例研究精确地揭示了推广在现实中是如何发挥作用的。其结果是一部关于科学养蜂以及改进的言辞如何与实践文化相关联的更全面的历史。
