Governing the Rural in Interwar Europe

1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-138-69601-3
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 310 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 526 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Modern European History

This book examines how rural Europe as a hybrid social and natural environment emerged as a key site of local, national and international governance in the interwar years. The post-war need to secure and intensify food production, to protect contested border areas, to improve rural infrastructure and the economic viability of rural regions and to politically integrate rural populations, gave rise to a variety of schemes aimed at modernizing agriculture and remaking rural society. The volume examines discourses, institutions and practices of rural governance from a transnational perspective, revealing striking commonalities across national and political boundaries. From the village town hall to the headquarters of international organizations, local authorities, government officials and politicians, scientific experts and farmers engaged in debates about the social, political and economic future of rural communities. They sought to respond to both real and imagined concerns over poverty and decline, backwardness and insufficient control, by conceptualizing planning and engineering models that would help foster an ideal rural community and develop an efficient agricultural sector. By examining some of these local, national and international schemes and policies, this volume highlights the hitherto under-researched interaction between policymakers, experts and rural inhabitants in the European countryside of the 1920s and '30s.

Autoren/Hrsg.

de Grift, Liesbeth van

Forclaz, Amalia

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction

[Liesbeth van de Grift and Amalia Ribi Forclaz]

2. Reflections on Rural Governance in Interwar Europe and Beyond

[Kiran Klaus Patel]

Part I: Conceptions of the Rural

3. The Future of Village Life: Welfare, Planning and the Role of Government in Rural Britain between the Wars

[Clare Griffiths]

4. The "Social Museum" of Village Life: Sociology and Heritage in 1930s Romania

[Raluca Musat]

5. Making the Future Village: Agricultural Planning in Early Soviet Russia

[Katja Bruisch]

Part II: Land Reform and Resettlement Schemes

6. Colonization Projects in East Central and Southeastern Europe

[Dietmar Müller]

7. Weimar Internal Colonization as Rural Governance: Beyond Visions and Numbers

[Elizabeth Jones]

8. Remaking Rural Societies: Internal Colonization in the Netherlands, Germany and Sweden

[Liesbeth van de Grift]

Part III: Rural Governance and Self-Governance

9. Self-Administration: A Political Technology in Interwar (Rural) Germany

[Anette Schlimm]

10. Governing the "Rural Exodus" in Nazi Germany, 1933-1939

[Ernst Langthaler]

11. Mobilized But Not Organized: Peasant Voters, Party Politics and the Expanding Franchise in Europe after the First World War

[Daniel Brett]

Part IV: International Organizations and Associations

12. Experts, Agriculture and International Rural Governance in the Interwar Years

[Amalia Ribi Forclaz]

13. Three Peasant Internationals Revisited

[Wim van Meurs]

14. Governing Europe’s Forests: The International Forestry Centre, the European Timber Commission and the National Socialist Attempt to Control European Forestry and Timber Industry

[Martin Bemmann]

Über Autor(innen)

Liesbeth van de Grift is Assistant Professor in the History of International Relations at Utrecht University.

Amalia Ribi Forclaz is Assistant Professor in International History at the Graduate Institute for International and Development Studies, Geneva.