A cat with nine lives: Rural history in the Netherlands after 1900

TY - JOUR

T1 - A cat with nine lives

T2 - Rural history in the Netherlands after 1900

AU - van Cruijningen, P.J.

PY - 2014

Y1 - 2014

N2 - Initially, Dutch rural history was mostly practised by non-historians, including geographers, agronomists and sociologists. This changed after the Second World War, when B.H. Slicher van Bath founded a research group at Wageningen University. Because this group was the first in the Netherlands to apply the ideas of W. Abel and the French Annales School, it became prominent in the 1970s and 1980s. It specialised in long-term regional studies with the emphasis on economic and demographic development in the Early Modern Period. From 1990, the field was widened to include the Medieval and Modern Periods and with new themes such as political and water management history. During the last decade, rural history has become more comparative thanks to new international networks and the European Rural History Organisation (EURHO).

AB - Initially, Dutch rural history was mostly practised by non-historians, including geographers, agronomists and sociologists. This changed after the Second World War, when B.H. Slicher van Bath founded a research group at Wageningen University. Because this group was the first in the Netherlands to apply the ideas of W. Abel and the French Annales School, it became prominent in the 1970s and 1980s. It specialised in long-term regional studies with the emphasis on economic and demographic development in the Early Modern Period. From 1990, the field was widened to include the Medieval and Modern Periods and with new themes such as political and water management history. During the last decade, rural history has become more comparative thanks to new international networks and the European Rural History Organisation (EURHO).

KW - rural history

KW - agriculture

KW - environmental history

KW - water management

M3 - Article

SN - 1572-1701

VL - 11

SP - 131

EP - 152

JO - Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis

JF - Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis

IS - 2

ER -