Conference Programme for Tuesday 14 September
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| 9.00 - 11.00 | Animals Chair: Janken Myrdal Inja Smerdel: What images of oxen can tell us: metaphorical meanings and everyday working processes Carl Griffin: Agrarian capitalism, animal maiming, and human desire Laura Hollsten: Domestic animals on early modern Caribbean sugar plantations Ted Collins: Animal power in European agriculture in the 20th century |
Food shortages in pre-industrial Europe Conveners: Tim Newfield and Philip Slavin Chair: Phillipp Schofield Tim Newfield: Subsistence crises in Carolingian Europe (c.750-c.950): frequency, causes, and effects Nils Hybel: Food supplies, long-distance trade, climate and population 1000-1350 Philip Slavin: The Great European Famine between ecology and institutions: reflections from England, c.1314-30 Bruce Campbell and Cormac Ó Gráda: Harvest shortfalls, grain prices and famines in pre-industrial England |
Co-operation and rural society, I. The economic functioning of rural co-ops: bridges over social fissures or new cleavages? Convene: András Vári Chair: Catherine Albrecht Christopher Colvin: God and risk: the role of religion in rural cooperative banking in early twentieth century Netherlands Hans Jörgensen: The growth of the Estonian Agricultural Co-operative Movement in a North European context: 1860s to the interwar years András Vári: Co-ops, peasants, and networks in segmented rural societies of Austria, Hungary, and Transylvania from the 1880s to 1918 |
The balance between city and countryside: the Netherlands 1700-1860 Convener: Paul Brusse Chair: TBA Paul Brusse: The changing economic relation between city and countryside in the Netherlands, 1750-1850 Jeanine Dekker: Political forces in the changing relations between town and countryside in the Netherlands, 1750-1850 Arno Neele: De-urbanisation, ruralisation and the cultural balance between city and countryside in the Dutch province of Zeeland 1750-1850 Wijnand Mijnhardt: From urban republic to rural monarchy 1700-1860 |
Agricultural export trade, land tenure and town-country relations: south-east Europe, the Black Sea and the Aegean (1840s-1930s) Convener: Socrates Petmezas Chair: Socrates Petmezas Alp Yücel Kaya: Export-oriented agriculture and labour organisation in Çiftliks in the hinterland of Izmir and Salonica (1840-1912) Andreas Lyberatos: Grain production in north-eastern Bulgaria and the grain market of Varna (late 19th-early 20th centuries) Yücel Terzibasoglu: Olive oil production and networks of trade, finance, and ownership in western Anatolia in the 19th century |
| 11.00 - 11.30 | Coffee | ||||
| 11.30 - 13.00 | Anglo-Saxon rural landscapes Convener: Dr Sue Oostuizen Chair: Dr Chris Lewis Rosamond Faith: Livestock in landscapes: pre-Conquest England and modern conservation practice Debby Banham: Anglo-Saxon farmers and the supernatural Sue Oostuizen: Agricultural tradition and innovation, and the origins of Anglo-Saxon identity |
Can we talk about an 'industrious revolution' in southern Europe?
Convener and Chair: Julie Marfany Rosa Congost and Eulàlia Esteve: Little land but many forks? Analysing consumption patterns among Catalan smallholders over the second half of the eighteenth century Gérard Béaur: An industrious revolution in the Parisian countryside? The case of Brie in the eighteenth century Julie Marfany: Was there an industrious revolution in Catalonia? |
Co-operation and rural society, II. Catalysts of rural mobilisation: co-operative movements with national or religious backgrounds Convener and chair: András Vári Torsten Lorenz: Nationalism as a factor of integration and disintegration in the co-operative movement of East Central Europe, 1850-1940 Catherine Albrecht: Rural banks and credit cooperatives in Bohemia, 1860-1914 Eóin McLaughlin: Competing forms of co-operation: land league, land war and co-operation in Ireland, 1879-1921 |
Transnational networks of learning: new ways of knowledge production by farmers and agronomists in the 19th and 20th centuries Convener: Peter Moser Chair: Michael Kopsidis Peter Moser: Learning by travelling? Farmers and agronomists from Switzerland visiting Great Britain in 20th century Juan Pan-Montojo: Spanish agricultural engineers and the international agronomy: reading and travelling before the Great War Zsuzsanna Varga: Formal and informal networks of learning between East and West: the modernisation of the Hungarian agriculture in the 1960s and 1970s |
Perspectives on technical change in agriculture Convener: Paul Brassley Chair: Michael Winter Andrew Godley: Intensive rearing technologies and industrial organisation in the UK poultry industry, 1950-70 Karen Sayer: 'Animal machines': the public response to intensive poultry production Hilary Crowe: The role of direct subsidy on production and profitability of upland agriculture 1947-73 Paul Brassley, Michael Winter, David Harvey, and Matt Lobley: Perspectives on technical change in agriculture |
| 13.00 - 14.00 | Lunch | ||||
| 14.00 - 15.30 | Poverty in rural societies in southern Europe Convener and Chair: Julie Marfany Rosa Lluch: Peasants feeding the poor in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries Gilles Postel-Vinay: Family support and local welfare: how to mitigate the effects of phylloxera Enric Saguer: Poverty and assistance on Catalan family farms: the role of the masos in providing shelter for children and the elderly in the first half of the twentieth century |
British landowners in the eighteenth century Chair: John Broad Henry French: Landlords, tenants and paupers? Rural society and the ‘tripartite model’ in eighteenth-century England: a case study Briony McDonagh: Elite women and the agricultural landscape, 1700-1830 John Broad and Richard Hoyle: Who owned England at the end of the eighteenth century? The possibilities of the land tax |
Co-operation and rural society, III. Unequal partners: national elites and localised peasantries in the co-operative movement Convener and chair: András Vári Gloria Sanz Lafuente: Peasants and co-operatives in Spain 1880-1930 Nancy Berlage: The Farm Bureau Co-operatives: social and cultural formation at the local level Jordi Planas Maresma: Rural co-operatives and empowerment of peasantry in agrarian collective action at the beginning of the twentieth century |
Communal properties and agrarian collectivism in the north-west of Spain (eighteenth to twentieth centuries). Communal tradition, development and alternatives for the future Convener: Laureano Rubio Pérez Chair: James Simpson Maria-José Pérez and Alfredo Martin Garcia: Communal properties and resources: size, type and development, eighteenth to twentieth centuries. The keys to their preservation Laureano Rubio Pérez and Oscar Fernandez: Agrarian collectivism and communal management. Types of action, uses, and the economic and social aspects of communal properties, eighteenth to twentieth centuries Francisco Beltrán Tapia: Social and environmental filters to market incentives: Common land persistence in 19th century Spain José Miguel Lana Berasain: Forgotten commons. Rhetoric, memory and property rights in an action arena. (A case study: Sansomain, Spain, 16th-21st centuries) |
Aspects of agricultural productivity in western Europe, 1800-2006 Chair: Paul Brassley Jean-Michel Chevet: Which specialisation in France in the 19th century? Michael Kopsidis and Nikolaus Wolf: The 'little divergence' in Central Europe: explaining agricultural productivity across Prussia around 1865 Vicente Pinilla and Miguel Martin-Retortillo: International differences in agricultural productivity in Europe, 1950-2006 |
| 15.30 - 16.00 | Tea | ||||
| 16.00 - 17.00 | The tragedy of the forests
Chair: Carl Griffin Takashi Iida: 'Timber beneficences' from the lords' forests: new light on demesne lordship (Gutsherrschaft) in Brandenburg-Prussia, 1700–1850 Adrián Zarrilli: Forest versus agriculture. The historical limits of Argentine forest sustainability in a context of capitalist exploitation (1880-1950) |
Innovation and productivity in Italian agriculture
Chair: TBA Paolo Tedeschi: New agrarian productive systems for a modern agriculture: notes on Lombard agriculture from the Napoleonic period to the Fascist regime Marie-Lucie Rossi: Performances of agriculture in Reggio Emilia in the nineteenth century: an economic and social construction |
Meeting of the Inter-War Group Chair: Jeremy Burchardt |
Fictional representations
Chair: Claire Strom Fermin Allende Portillo: Literary fertiliser for rural history: the representation of the farming sector in Western literature Brian Q. Cannon: 'You can’t take the country out of the boy': rural-urban migration in fiction |
Egyptian rural history Chair: TBA Yossef Rapoport: Peasants and landlords in thirteenth-century Egypt: a comparative perspective based on 'the History of the Fayyum' |
| 17.45 - 19.00 | Plenary lecture in the Chichester Lecture Theatre: Bruce Campbell, Agriculture and national incomes in Europe, c.1300-1850 - chaired by John Chartres (past President, British Agricultural History Society) | ||||
| 19.30 | Dinner (cafeteria-style) | ||||
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| 20.30 - 21.30 | A new social order: changing U.S. agricultural practices in the Lower Mississippi River Valley, 1945-2000 Speaker: C. Fred Williams Chair: ??? |
Biological innovation the new explanation of agricultural growth: a longue-durée perspective of European agriculture from Roman times to the Agricultural Revolution Speaker: Jan-Åke Staffansson Chair: ??? |
Rural elites, local power and rural capitalism: state of the art and perspectives for comparative research Speakers: Tim Soens, Erik Thoen, Eline Van Onacker and Kristof Dombrecht Chair: Richard Hoyle |
Rural movements and the transition to democracy in Spain Speakers: Antonio Herrera and John Markoff Chair: Vicente Pinilla |
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