Rural History 34, 1 (2023)

RHN 45/2023 | Publication

Rural History: Economy, Society, Culture

Volume 34 – Issue 01 – April 2023

 

Table of Contents:

Research Articles

How hiking reinvented rural areas: social transformation and leisure activities in Brittany during the 1970s
Michaël Attali, Yohann Fortune, Doriane Gomet, Yohann Rech

The persistent workforce: female day labour on capitalist farms in eighteenth-century Flanders
Lore Helsen

Agrarian development and state building in Spain: the contest for irrigation in the Valencian Region, 1770–1860
Salvador Calatayud, Jesús Millán, María Cruz Romeo

‘Success to the Shropshire Chamber of Agriculture’: a reappraisal of the role of chambers of agriculture in Britain during the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries
James P. Bowen

The peasant and the nation plot: a distant reading of the Romanian rural novel from the first half of the twentieth century
Cosmin Borza, Daiana Gârdan, Emanuel Modoc

From rural reconstruction to agricultural engineering: a study of the cooperation between the Chinese Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry and the International Harvester Company (1945–8)
Ruisheng Zhang

From grassland to forest: the puzzle of land tenure and forest conservation in Costa Rica (1962–2014)
Wilson Picado-Umaña, Elisa Botella-Rodríguez

Where Next in Rural History?

Future directions in rural history: Ireland, the First World War and the search for historical evidence
Emmanuel Destenay

 

View the full table of contents and abstracts here: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/rural-history/latest-issue