Living with the Land: Rural and Agricultural Actors in Twentieth-Century Europe – A Handbook

Published by De Gruyter Oldenbourg 2022

Living with the Land

Rural and Agricultural Actors in Twentieth-Century Europe – A Handbook

Edited by: Liesbeth van de Grift , Dietmar Müller and Corinna R. Unger

Volume 3 in the series Contemporary European History

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110678628

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About this book

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.

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Liesbeth van de Grift, Utrecht University; Dietmar Müller, GWZO, Leipzig; Corinna R. Unger, EUI, Florence.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Table of Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	V
On the “Contemporary European History” Handbook Series Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
1 Living with the Land: Introduction Corinna R. Unger, Liesbeth van de Grift and Dietmar Müller Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
I Working the Land
2 Opening Up the Land: Infrastructures in Rural Europe Vincent Lagendijk Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	15
3 Reclaiming the Land: The Drainage Paradigm and the Making of Twentieth-Century Rural Europe Katja Bruisch and Liesbeth van de Grift Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	37
4 Developing Rural Regions: Europe in the World Corinna R. Unger Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	61
II Managing Land and Labor
5 Mediating Modernity: The Social History of Rural Domestic Education in Northwestern Europe Gustav Berry Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	83
6 Pooling Resources in the European Countryside: Cooperative Models, Rural Capitalism, and Beyond Nikolay Kamenov Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	109
7 Farming under Occupation: Rural Actors and the Social Dynamics of Occupation during World War II Tatjana Tönsmeyer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	133
8 Transforming Agriculture and Rurality: The Common Agricultural Policy, Actors, National Adaptation and Responses to Policy Challenges Carine S. Germond and Kalliopi Geronymaki Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	155
III Knowing the Land
9 Registering Land and Forests: European Institutions and Practices of Landownership Iva Lučić and Dietmar Müller Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	177
10 Experimenting with Scientific Management: New Approaches to Agricultural Labor in the Twentieth Century Amalia Ribi Forclaz and Carolyn Taratko Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	205
11 Developing Agriculture, Modernizing Rural Society: Transnational Dimensions of Agricultural Expertise Heinrich Hartmann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	227
IV Organizing Life on the Land
12 Representing Peasants and Farmers: Parties, Movements, and Leaders Across Europe Wim van Meurs Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	251
13 Governing the Village: Rural Mayors and the Transformations of Self-Government in Europe Anette Schlimm Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	281
14 Managing Culture in the European Countryside: The Modern Roots of Rural Traditions Corinne Geering Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	301
15 Challenging Socialist Village Structures: Youth in Rural Regions since 1945 Dietlind Hüchtker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	325
List of Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	345
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	349

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Oldenbourg
Pages
- Front matter: 8
- Main content: 363
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 5
- Coloured Illustrations: 7
- Tables: 1
Keywords: management; agriculture; representation; natural resources

eBook

Published: November 7, 2022
ISBN: 9783110678628

Hardcover

Published: November 7, 2022
ISBN: 9783110678567