Governing the rural in interwar Europe

by Grift, Liesbeth van de Ribi Forclaz, Amalia

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Title Statements

Full title :Governing the rural in interwar Europe / edited by Liesbeth van de Grift and Amalia Ribi Forclaz.

Summary

"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."--Provided by publisher.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2018.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Routledge Taylor & Francis Group
Place of Publication:London
Language:eng
Publication Date:2018.

Notes

Based on the conference "Governing the Rural in Interwar Europe" held in 2014 at the Soeterbeeck Study Center, Ravenstein.

The Physical Object

Description:xviii, 291 pages ; : 24 cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781315525617, 1315525615, 1138696013, 9781138696013
oclc:on1010586542
LC Classification:HN380.7.A8
Dewey Decimal:306.0947

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Subjects

Agriculture and state Agriculture and state -- Congresses -- … Agriculture and state -- Congresses -- … Central Europe Conference papers and proceedings Développement rural -- Congrès. -- Aspe… Développement rural -- Congrès. -- Aspe… Développement rural -- Congrès. -- Poli… Développement rural -- Congrès. -- Poli… Eastern Europe Entwicklung Europa Europe de l'Est -- Congrès. -- Conditio… Europe, Central -- Congresses -- Rural … Europe, Eastern -- Congresses -- Rural … Ländlicher Raum Politique agricole -- Congrès. -- Europ… Politique agricole -- Congrès. -- Europ… Rural conditions Rural development -- Congresses -- Gove…