1st Edition

Governing the Rural in Interwar Europe

310 Pages

by Routledge

310 Pages 19 B/W Illustrations

by Routledge

310 Pages 19 B/W Illustrations

by Routledge

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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... Read more

Preface

Liesbeth van de Grift and Amalia Ribi Forclaz

1. The Green Heart of Governance: Rural Europe during the Interwar Years in a Global Perspective

Kiran Klaus Patel

2. Internal Colonization in Weimar Germany: Transnational and Local Approaches to Rural Governance in the 1920s

Elizabeth B. Jones

3. Colonization Projects and Agrarian Reforms in East-Central and Southeastern Europe, 1913–1950

Dietmar Müller

4. Cultivating Land and People: Internal Colonization in Interwar Europe

Liesbeth van de Grift

5. The Future of Village Life: Welfare, Planning and the Role of Government in Rural Britain between the Wars

Clare Griffiths

6. The "Social Museum" of Village Life: Sociology and Heritage in 1930s Romania

Raluca Mușat

7. Knowledge and Power in the Making of the Soviet Village

Katja Bruisch

8. Between Mobilization and De-Politicization: Political Technologies of Rural Self-Government in Weimar Germany

Anette Schlimm

9. Governing Rural Exodus in Nazi Germany: 1933 to 1939

Ernst Langthaler

10. Guardians of the Countryside: The Associated Countrywomen of the World (ACWW) and International Rural Governance in the Interwar Years

Amalia Ribi Forclaz

11. Cartels, Grossraumwirtschaft and Statistical Knowledge: International Organizations and Their Efforts to Govern Europe’s Forest Resources in the 1930s and 1940s

Martin Bemmann

12. The Red Peasant International

Wim van Meurs