Waste Not, Want Not: Excrement and Economy in Nineteenth-Century France

ABSTRACT In mid-nineteenth-century France, the science of animal nutrition morphed into a Romantic political program. Scientists and socialists formulated a kind of industrial physiocracy that sought to replace wage work and finance capital with an unimpeded flow of excrement.

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Veröffentlicht in:	Representations (Berkeley, Calif.) Calif.), 2006-11, Vol.96 (1), p.73-98
1. Verfasser:	SIMMONS, DANA
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	19th century Agricultural economics Agricultural production Air Animals Capitalism Chemistry European history Farmyard manure Fertilizers France French literature Hugo, Victor (1802-1885) Industrial agriculture Manure Manures Nineteenth Century Nutrition Physiocratism Physiocrats Plants Political economy Politics Respiration Romanticism
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Zusammenfassung:	ABSTRACT In mid-nineteenth-century France, the science of animal nutrition morphed into a Romantic political program. Scientists and socialists formulated a kind of industrial physiocracy that sought to replace wage work and finance capital with an unimpeded flow of excrement.
ISSN:	0734-6018 1533-855X
DOI:	10.1525/rep.2006.96.1.73