Preliminary Programme

Showing: Rural (all days)
Tue 26 February
    14.15
    16.30

Wed 27 February
    8.30
    10.45
    14.15
    16.30

Thu 28 February
    8.30
    10.45
    14.15
    16.30

Fri 29 February
    8.30
    10.45
    14.15
    16.30

Sat 1 March
    8.30
    10.45
    14.15
    16.30

All days
Tuesday 26 February 2008 14.15
C-1 RUR01 Changing the rural in the Early Modern Period
Cave C
Network: Rural Chair: Anton Schuurman
Organizers: - Discussant: Anton Schuurman
Gareth Austin : Moneylending and Witchcraft: The Moral Economy of Accumulation in Colonial Asante (Ghana)
Isabelle Devos : Environment, health and rural welfare in Flanders, 1700-1850
Per Hallén : Standard of living of farmers and rural workers in Sweden 1750-1900.
Clif Hubby : Violence and Local Society in Late Medieval Bavaria: A Look at the Evidence
Reinoud Vermoesen : Rural commercialisation of Inner Flanders (17th-18th century)



Tuesday 26 February 2008 16.30
K-2 RUR02 From tradition to modernization
Room 4
Network: Rural Chair: Piet van Cruyningen
Organizers: - Discussant: Piet van Cruyningen
Conceição Andrade Martins : Population and Agrarian system in 18th century Alentejo
Hervé Bennezon : A village close to Paris, Montreuil during the reign of King Louis XIV
Jose Marques : Household, land transmission and heritage in northern Portugal (Terra da Maia 1800-1950)
Florent Merot : Paris and his countryside : the originality of the landscape in the Vallée de Montmorency in the XVIIth and XVIIIth centuries
Merja Uotila, Maare Valtonen : Entrepreneurial activities in a pre-industrial society: Artisans and industrialists in Finnish countryside



Wednesday 27 February 2008 8.30
M-3 RUR03 Rural History and village life in Japan
Room 5.2
Network: Rural Chair: Michael Shackleton
Organizers: - Discussant: Michael Shackleton
Hiroshi Hasebe : The succession of “IE” ;a case study of rural family in the Tokugawa Japan
Kouki Iwama : The Mutual Financing Associatons in Japanese Farm Villages: A case study of Kami-shiojiri village at the end of the early modern period
Martin Morris : Silk-worm raising and the Japanese house - the minka of Shiojiri in a national and global context
Yoshiyuki Murayama : Geographical setting and landownership of Kami-shiojiri
Moto(yasu) Takahashi : Family Continuity in Japan, in comparison with England
Futoshi Yamauchi : About the several social relationships for life that surrounded landownership



Wednesday 27 February 2008 10.45
I-4 RUR04 Elites and agricultural modernization
Room 2.1
Networks: Elites and forerunners , Rural Chair: Richard W Hoyle
Organizers: - Discussant: Richard W Hoyle
Daniel Samson : British North American Elites and Agricultural Improvement in Transatlantic Context, 1791-1860
Ursula Schlude : “To cultivate profitably and with good advice”. Creating Agricultural Knowledge at the Electoral Court of Dresden 1568 to 1572.
Alejandro Tortolero : Elites and Haciendas in the 19th c. Mexico : routine or innovation ?
Andras Vari (1953-2011) : The guardians of agricultural change – Professionalization of estate stewards in 19th century Hungary
Nadine Vivier : Elites and progress in Europe: a comparative view



Wednesday 27 February 2008 14.15
F-5 RUR05 Modernization and Democratization in the Countryside
Sala Leite de Vasconcelos
Network: Rural Chair: Nadine Vivier
Organizers: - Discussant: Nadine Vivier
Ronald Rommes : The rise of rural cooperatives in the Netherlands, 1850-1930
Anton Schuurman : The construction of Dutch Agriculture Inc.
Piet van Cruyningen : Political mobilization of the peasantry in the Dutch provinces of Gelderland and Zeeland, ca. 1880-1920
Remco Visschers : Rural association before the co-operative: the case of the Agricultural Society in the Dutch province of Gelderland, 1845-1880



Thursday 28 February 2008 10.45
I-8 RUR06 Land reform and agricultural politics in France, Greece and England
Room 2.1
Network: Rural Chair: Jaime Reis
Organizers: - Discussant: Jaime Reis
John Beckett : The New Domesday of Landownership, 1876
Noelle Plack : Privatising the commons in Napoleonic France: the law of 20 March 1813
Brian Short : National discourse and local struggle in the battle for land 1906-1914
Michael Turner : The end of manorial ownership: copyhold enfranchisment after 1840



Thursday 28 February 2008 14.15
K-9 RUR09 Agriculture and the Second World War
Room 4
Network: Rural Chair: Paul Brassley
Organizers: - Discussant: Paul Brassley
Carin Israelsson : Sweden in the shadow of war: a paradise for administrators and some renaissance for the rural society
John Martin : The State Induced Agricultural Revolution: case study of Britain 1939-55
Leen Van Molle, Yves Segers : Changing faces of micro-farming in and around the Second World War, historical perspectives from the Belgian case



Thursday 28 February 2008 16.30
P-10 NMRUR Network meeting: Rural
Room 8.1
Network: Rural Chairs: -
Organizers: - Discussants: -



Friday 29 February 2008 8.30
I-11 RUR08 Agriculture, Gender and Representation around the Second World War
Room 2.1
Network: Rural Chair: Leen Van Molle
Organizers: - Discussant: Leen Van Molle
Ernst Langthaler : Struggling for ‘Peasantness’: Inclusion and Exclusion by Hereditary Court Proceedings in Nazi Germany, 1938-1945
Peter Moser : The farmers and the state: Ireland and Switzerland 1935-1955
Margreet Van Der Burg : Agricultural interests, identities and gender segregation under pressure. The effects of the siege over crisis and wartime to the Dutch agricultural organisational landscape.
Nicola Verdon : '"The modern countrywoman": Farm women, rural domesticity and the farmhouse economy in interwar Britain



Friday 29 February 2008 10.45
I-12 RUR12 Contestations of productivist agriculture
Room 2.1
Network: Rural Chair: Dulce Freire
Organizers: - Discussant: Dulce Freire
Erin Gill : Stillborn? Organic farming in post-war Britain
Richard W Hoyle : Grouse in history: non-agricultural uses of the English countryside
Mats Morell, Susanna Hedenborg : A vehicle in the army, a lumber jack companion or a friend in the family - the riding horse and countryside economics in 20th century Sweden


V-12 WOR03 Sugar, Coffee and International Affairs
Room 2.10
Networks: Rural , World History Chair: Corinne A. Pernet
Organizers: - Discussant: Beverly Lemire
Christiane Berth : Transnational networks in coffee trade between Germany and Guatemala
Kathleen Mapes : "'Barbarian' or 'Civilized' Sugar?: The Politics of Imperialism, 1898-1909
Jim Norris : World Affairs, Migrant Workers, and Sugar Production in the United States
Dorothee Wierling : Phantasies of the „Origin“. The imagery of the coffee bean and the Hamburg coffee merchants.



Friday 29 February 2008 14.15
I-13 RUR13 Biodiversity, Environmental history and Agricultural history
Room 2.1
Network: Rural Chair: Claire Strom
Organizers: - Discussant: Claire Strom
Kenneth Sylvester, Eric Rupley : Making landscapes agricultural in the American grasslands
Meri Vuohu : Florentine Property and Public Administration in the Pisan Countryside in the Fifteenth Century: The Perspective of Environmental History



Friday 29 February 2008 16.30
I-14 RUR15 Forest Products Industry and Trade in the 19th and 20th centuries
Room 2.1
Network: Rural Chair: Francisco Manuel Parejo Moruno
Organizers: Amélia Branco, Francisco Manuel Parejo Moruno Discussant: Amélia Branco
Miguel Pestana, Isabel Tinoco : The Industry and the Trade of Cork in Portugal during the 20th century
Antonio Serrano : Cork Products Trade Through Seville's Harbour (18th-19th Centuries)
James Simpson : Grapes and wines: the international transfer of technology during the first globalisation, 1850-1914.
Javier Soriano : The forest residual utilizations in the Mediterranean mountain: cork and wood



Saturday 1 March 2008 8.30
K-15 RUR07 Living in the countryside in the first half of the 20th century
Room 4
Network: Rural Chair: John Martin
Organizers: - Discussant: Ernst Langthaler
Rien Emmery : Continuity, theoretical innovation and practical immobility. The influence of the Second World War on country planning and rural housing policy in Flanders (1935-1955).
Fredie Floré, Bruno Notteboom : The Open Air Museum of Bokrijk
Juan Pan-Montojo : "Spanish agriculture, 1931-1951: crisis, wars and new policies in the reshaping of rural society"
Will Wilson : A Celebration of Power: Rural Festivity and Opposition in Nazi Germany



Saturday 1 March 2008 10.45
K-16 RUR10 Land owners, Politics, and Agricultural Reform in the 20th century
Room 4
Networks: Elites and forerunners , Rural Chair: Mats Morell
Organizers: - Discussant: Mats Morell
Sónia Vespeira De Almeida : Rural Portugal and the "Carnation Revolution"
Juan Carmona, James Simpson : Why sharecropping? Explaining its presence in French's vineyards, 1800-1950
Victor Pereira : Managing the decline of the landowners. The Portuguese government and the rural migration between 1957 and 1974
Carla Almeida Sousa : A Cultural Elite in a Village of the South of Portugal
Lanero Táboas : Francoism and local powers: intermediation, legitimation and socially differentiated access to extremely scarce resources.


V-16 RUR16 Man and beast. Human interactions with animals in a comparative context
Room 2.10
Network: Rural Chair: Margaret Derry
Organizers: - Discussant: Margaret Derry
Stefan Bargheer : Moral Entanglements: The Emergence and Transformation of the Concern for Bird Conservation in Great Britain and Germany, 1870-1930
Jonathan Bryant : Turning Deer into Rice: The deerskin trade in the eighteenth century Atlantic world
Claire Strom : Cattle, Ticks, and Humans: Disease Eradication in a Comparative Perspective
Sandra Swart : Horse Trading: comparing human-equine networks of control and socio-environmental change in South African, India, Australia and the Americas



Saturday 1 March 2008 14.15
B-17 RUR11 Fordist agriculture: science, states and farmers
Cave B
Network: Rural Chair: Peter Moser
Organizers: - Discussant: Peter Moser
Dulce Freire, José Raul Ribeiro : Mediterranean agriculture and rural development. Causes and consequences of Portuguese state intervention after World War II
Shawn Parkhurst : Analyzing the Intersection of Regional Representations, State Reform, Capital and the Conflict of Class Fractions: An Example from the Douro Region
Wilson Picado : Comparing Green revolution.State and technological change in Costa Rica, México and Spain.1940-1970.
Mathijs Witte : Industrialization of agriculture: emerge of footloose farming in the Netherlands 1950-2000



Saturday 1 March 2008 16.30
C-18 RUR14 The role and meaning of the forest for rural life
Cave C
Network: Rural Chair: Kenneth Sylvester
Organizers: - Discussant: Kenneth Sylvester
Caroline Delph : The (Re)-Formation of a landscape: Paul Schultze-Naumburg and the Landscape of Germany at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century
Michael Imort : The De-Professionalization of German Foresters, 1933-1945
Doina Simona Niculae : Falling off trees: Forest, community and the state in a Transylvanian village
Michael Shackleton : The Japanese 'Satoyama' tradition of ecological woodland management


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