| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
Routledge studies in modern European history ; vol. 48 |
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Routledge studies in modern European history ; 48.
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| Contents |
The green heart of governance: rural Europe during the interwar years in a global perspective -- Internal colonization in Weimar Germany: transnational and local approaches to rural governance in the 1920s -- Colonization projects and agrarian reforms in east-central and southeastern Europe, 1913-1950 -- Cultivating land and people: internal colonization in interwar Europe -- The future of village life: welfare, planning and the role of government in rural Britain between the wars -- The "social museum" of village life: sociology and heritage in 1930s Romania -- Knowledge and power in the making of the Soviet village -- Between mobilization and de-politicization: political technologies of rural self-government in Weimar Germany -- Governing rural exodus in Nazi Germany, 1933 to 1939 -- Guardians of the countryside: the associated countrywomen of the world (ACWW) and international rural governance ... -- Cartels, grossraumwirtschaft and statistical knowledge: international organizations and their efforts to govern ... -- The Red Peasant International -- Index |
| 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 |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 07, 2017) |
| Subject |
Nature and nurture -- Europe
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
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Economic history
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Nature and nurture
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Politics and government
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Rural conditions
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| SUBJECT |
Europe -- Rural conditions
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Europe -- Politics and government. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045733
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Europe -- Economic conditions.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045668
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| Subject |
Europe
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Conference papers and proceedings
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Grift, Liesbeth van de, 1978- editor.
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Ribi Forclaz, Amalia, 1976- editor.
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| ISBN |
9781315525600 |
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1315525607 |
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9781315525594 |
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1315525593 |
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9781315525617 |
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1315525615 |
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9781315525587 |
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1315525585 |
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