Anton J. Schuurman- PhD
- Emeritus associate professor at Wageningen University & Research
Anton J. Schuurman
- PhD
- Emeritus associate professor at Wageningen University & Research
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Introduction
His research interest include and he has published on: social theory (processes and mechanisms of social change), trajectories of rural modernization, processes of spatial organization (nation building and state formation; globalisation), changing material culture and consumption and historical demography.
Currently he is writing a book on the dual processes of modernisation and democratisation in the Dutch countryside from 1840 till 1920.
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In this article I argue that the development of postmodernism and the return of the narrative in the1970s did not just happen for internal scientific reasons but were a reaction to the societal developments and theories at the time. To this end I use the contemporary criticism concerning postmodernism by Beck and Giddens. In the second part I highl...
This book unravels how the agricultural sector and the rural world in Europe became more and more organised within capitalism in the years 1870-1940, and this with the aim of tackling the important challenges of the time. The focus is not so much on the myriad of individual farmers’ actions, but on the collective efforts undertaken through the inte...
This chapter explains the formation of agricultural governance in Europe since the nineteenth century. The authors move away from the traditional emphasis on agricultural policy as trade policy and the role of the state as a isolated actor.
A wide variety of actors, from landowners associations, farmers’ unions, cooperatives, scientific institutio...
This book unravels how the agricultural sector and the rural world in Europe became more and more organised within capitalism in the years 1870-1940, and this with the aim of tackling the important challenges of the time. The focus is not so much on the myriad of individual farmers’ actions, but on the collective efforts undertaken through the inte...
This chapter analysis the formation of agricultural governance in the Netherlands since the 19th century. It will be essential reading for anyone interested in agricultural politcs and also for historians interested in the history of the Netherlands in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Book reviews - Crítica de libros - Crítica de livros Niek Koning. Food Security, Agricultural Policies and Economic Growth: Longterm. Dynamics in the Past, Present and Future. London/New York, Routledge, 2017, 276 pp. Anton Schuurman Monica Ferrari, Gianpiero Fumi and Matteo Morandi (Eds.). Formare alle professioni: I saperi della cascina. Milano,...
Review of: Judith Thissen & Clemens Zimmermann, ed. Cinema Beyond the City. Small-Town & Rural Film Culture in Europe. Palgrave, 2016, 256 pp.
Dit boek is bedoeld om mensen actief op het terrein van letteren, archeologie, geschiedenis en kunstgeschiedenis over te halen om meer gebruik te maken van de mogelijkheden die GIS biedt. De noten bij de verschillende hoofdstukken zijn even zoveel doorverwijzingen naar relevante literatuur. Hier geven we nog enkele belangrijke internetadressen en p...
De Nederlandse landbouwstatistiek als product en producent van de Nederlandse landbouw.
Woud, A. van der, Een nieuwe wereld. Het ontstaan van het moderne Nederland (Amsterdam 2006)The Predicament of a Seductive Crossover BookAuke van der Woud’s new book is a must for everyone interested in the second half of the nineteenth century, particularly the consequences of spatial change. His book has all the virtues and vices of a crossover b...
This contribution explores the analytical implications of using the concept of globalization in historical research. The article stresses that globalization deals with the transformation of the spatial organization of social relations and transactions. What makes the contemporary globalization different from earlier phases is that distance plays a...
The discussion on the Westforschung is highly relevant for contemporary discussions on space, identity and history. As a reaction on postmodernism and the process of globalization in contemporary society we are again looking for security and certainty. Partly we try to regain this security by turning to national and regional identities that has bee...
Enterprise & Society 5.2 (2004) 314-315
This is an important book. It tells the familiar story of Dutch and English economic competition in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in a new context and, by doing so, it offers fresh insights into the development of the global economy and the role of the state in economic development.
The book consis...
In this article we present a set of computer applications for handling (probate) inventories. The programs have been developed at the Department of Rural History within the framework of aresearch programme for the history of consumption in the Netherlands: the MatCult Project. This project studies the development of consumer behaviour in the Nether...
