Date: 2023
Type: Book
Living with the land : rural and agricultural actors in twentieth-century Europe : a handbook
Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2023, Contemporary European history
VAN DE GRIFT, Liesbeth, MÜLLER, Dietmar, UNGER, Corinna R. (editor/s), VAN DE GRIFT, Liesbeth, MÜLLER, Dietmar, UNGER, Corinna R., Living with the land : rural and agricultural actors in twentieth-century Europe : a handbook, Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2023, Contemporary European history
- https://hdl.handle.net/1814/75168
Retrieved from Cadmus, EUI Research Repository
For a long time agriculture and rural life were dismissed by many contemporaries as irrelevant or old-fashioned. Contrasted with cities as centers of intellectual debate and political decision-making, the countryside seemed to be becoming increasingly irrelevant. Today, politicians in many European countries are starting to understand that the neglect of the countryside has created grave problems. Similarly, historians are remembering that European history in the twentieth century was strongly influenced by problems connected to the production of food, access to natural resources, land rights, and the political representation and activism of rural populations. Hence, the handbook offers an overview of historical knowledge on a variety of topics related to the land. It does so through a distinctly activity-centric and genuinely European perspective. Rather than comparing different national approaches to living with the land, the different chapters focus on particular activities – from measuring to settling the land, from producing and selling food to improving agronomic knowledge, from organizing rural life to challenging political structures in the countryside. Furthermore, the handbook overcomes the traditional division between East and West, North and South, by embracing a transregional approach that allows readers to gain an understanding of similarities and differences across national and ideological borders in twentieth-century Europe.
Table of Contents:
1 Living with the Land: Introduction, Corinna R. Unger, Liesbeth van de Grift and Dietmar Müller
I WORKING THE LAND
2 Opening Up the Land: Infrastructures in Rural Europe, Vincent Lagendijk
3 Reclaiming the Land: The Drainage Paradigm and the Making of Twentieth-Century Rural Europe, Katja Bruisch and Liesbeth van de Grift
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4 Developing Rural Regions: Europe in the World, Corinna R. Unger
II MANAGING LAND AND LABOR
5 Mediating Modernity: The Social History of Rural Domestic Education in Northwestern Europe, Gustav Berry
6 Pooling Resources in the European Countryside: Cooperative Models, Rural Capitalism, and Beyond, Nikolay Kamenov
7 Farming under Occupation: Rural Actors and the Social Dynamics of Occupation during World War II, Tatjana Tönsmeyer
8 Transforming Agriculture and Rurality: The Common Agricultural Policy, Actors, National Adaptation and Responses to Policy Challenges, Carine S. Germond and Kalliopi Geronymaki
III KNOWING THE LAND
9 Registering Land and Forests: European Institutions and Practices of Landownership, Iva Lučić and Dietmar Müller
10 Experimenting with Scientific Management: New Approaches to Agricultural Labor in the Twentieth Century, Amalia Ribi Forclaz and Carolyn Taratko
11 Developing Agriculture, Modernizing Rural Society: Transnational Dimensions of Agricultural Expertise, Heinrich Hartmann
IV ORGANIZING LIFE ON THE LAND
12 Representing Peasants and Farmers: Parties, Movements, and Leaders Across Europe, Wim van Meurs
13 Governing the Village: Rural Mayors and the Transformations of Self-Government in Europe, Anette Schlimm
14 Managing Culture in the European Countryside: The Modern Roots of Rural Traditions, Corinne Geering
15 Challenging Socialist Village Structures: Youth in Rural Regions since 1945, Dietlind Hüchtker
Cadmus permanent link: https://hdl.handle.net/1814/75168
ISBN: 9783110678567; 9783110678628
Publisher: De Gruyter Oldenbourg
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