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The State and Rural Societies. Policy and Education in Europe. 1750-2000
| Edizione: | Brepols Publishers, 2009 | | Collana: | Rural History in Europe |
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Rural societies are conventionally thought to be bound by
tradition and resistant to change. But from the 18th
century onwards many countries began to see the countryside as the
basis of national prosperity, with a healthy and increasing
population, and rising agricultural output fostering general
economic growth. It became an objective of the State to encourage
the trend, but also to exert social control on this major part of
the population in order to civilize the rude peasantry and acquire
their electoral support.
This book deals with the various aspects of rural life in which
the State intervened: economic matters, such as property rights and
market regulations; social questions, from moral concerns to
demographic policy; and the key issue of rural education.
From Sweden to the Iberian Peninsula, the United Kingdom to
Hungary, and from the eighteenth century to the twentieth, using
both broad surveys and in-depth studies, with an extensive
introduction written from a comparative perspective, an
international group of historians (brought together by the COST
network A35) for the first time examine the rural concerns of the
state, both economic and social, in a comparative European
context.
Nadine Vivier is professor of social and economic history at
the University of Maine (France). She has worked extensively
on rural societies from 1750 to 2000 in France and in
Europe.
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