28 March 2022
Brill has announced the addition of the series Agriculture and the Making of Sciences 1100-1700: Texts, Practices, and Transcultural Transmission of Knowledge in Asia (AMOS) to its publishing portfolio in Asian Studies. All volumes in this series will be published in Open Access with financial support from the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG).
This is the first academic series to explore pre-modern agriculture in its foundational role in informing emergent “sciences” globally. Agriculture is treated as a body of knowledge through which humans learned about their environment; the migration of ideas and practices are traced from texts to other epistemological spaces, from one ancient agriculture and culture to another. By studying historical relationships between knowledge practices and environmental change, the series contributes to the study of science, technology, and medicine, as well as debates in global history, which are very much relevant to environmental issues we are obliged to address within scholarship and beyond.
Director of MPIWG’s Department III (Artifacts, Action, Knowledge), Prof. Dagmar Schäfer, comments: “We are very pleased to partner with Brill in providing an interdisciplinary academic platform for the study of pre-modern history of science in extra-European contexts. We believe this transcultural book series will benefit from and be an innovative addition to Brill's strong presence in Asian Studies.”
Dr. Uri Tadmor, Publishing Director at Brill, adds: “Brill highly values the opportunity to partner with the esteemed Max Planck Institute again. Publishing the series in Open Access will ensure the visibility and discoverability of publications, which we are convinced will contribute to the impact of this important series.”