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

Living with the Land : : Rural and Agricultural Actors in Twentieth-Century Europe – A Handbook / / ed. by Liesbeth van de Grift, Dietmar Müller, Corinna R. Unger.

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...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2022 Part 1
MitwirkendeR:
Berry, Gustav,
Bruisch, Katja,
Forclaz, Amalia Ribi,
Geering, Corinne,
Germond, Carine S.,
Geronymaki, Kalliopi,
Grift, Liesbeth van de,
Hartmann, Heinrich,
Hüchtker, Dietlind,
Kamenov, Nikolay,
Lagendijk, Vincent,
Lučić, Iva,
Meurs, Wim van,
Müller, Dietmar,
Schlimm, Anette,
Taratko, Carolyn,
Tönsmeyer, Tatjana,
Unger, Corinna R.,
HerausgeberIn:
Müller, Dietmar,
Unger, Corinna R.,
van de Grift, Liesbeth,
Place / Publishing House:München ;, Wien : : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, , [2022]
©2022
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Contemporary European History , 3
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Physical Description:1 online resource (VIII, 363 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of Contents
  • On the “Contemporary European History” Handbook Series
  • 1 Living with the Land: Introduction
  • I Working the Land
  • 2 Opening Up the Land: Infrastructures in Rural Europe
  • 3 Reclaiming the Land: The Drainage Paradigm and the Making of Twentieth-Century Rural Europe
  • 4 Developing Rural Regions: Europe in the World
  • II Managing Land and Labor
  • 5 Mediating Modernity: The Social History of Rural Domestic Education in Northwestern Europe
  • 6 Pooling Resources in the European Countryside: Cooperative Models, Rural Capitalism, and Beyond
  • 7 Farming under Occupation: Rural Actors and the Social Dynamics of Occupation during World War II
  • 8 Transforming Agriculture and Rurality: The Common Agricultural Policy, Actors, National Adaptation and Responses to Policy Challenges
  • III Knowing the Land
  • 9 Registering Land and Forests: European Institutions and Practices of Landownership
  • 10 Experimenting with Scientific Management: New Approaches to Agricultural Labor in the Twentieth Century
  • 11 Developing Agriculture, Modernizing Rural Society: Transnational Dimensions of Agricultural Expertise
  • IV Organizing Life on the Land
  • 12 Representing Peasants and Farmers: Parties, Movements, and Leaders Across Europe
  • 13 Governing the Village: Rural Mayors and the Transformations of Self-Government in Europe
  • 14 Managing Culture in the European Countryside: The Modern Roots of Rural Traditions
  • 15 Challenging Socialist Village Structures: Youth in Rural Regions since 1945
  • List of Contributors
  • Index

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