Agricultural history

This article describes the historical discipline of agricultural history , for the chronological sequence see History of Agriculture

The plowing (painting by Giovanni Segantini, 1890)

Agricultural history is a sub-discipline of historical studies in which not only the history of agriculture , but also the secondary and extra-agricultural branches of the economy, the formal and informal balance of power (see the agricultural constitution and agricultural policy ), the local, regional and supraregional social relations as well as expert and everyday cultural orientations in the country are explored.

This research discipline connects the course of agricultural history with general economic and social history as well as environmental, political and cultural history. Neighboring subjects are archeology , geography , economics (see agro-economics ), sociology (see agro- sociology ) and European ethnology or folklore . In addition, research into agricultural history tries to present ecological, economic, political, social and cultural aspects of the history of rural societies.

Agricultural history in modern times

Research into agricultural history in Germany experienced a new beginning with the establishment of the Society for Agricultural History (GfA) in Hohenheim in 1953 . The organ of publication was the journal for agricultural history and agricultural sociology , which has been published under the umbrella of the German Agricultural Society since 1953. In the context of scientific debates about research goals and research strategies, the working group for agricultural history was founded in 1994 , which ended its independence on December 31, 2012.

At the international level, research on agricultural history began to be formed in the 1990s under the heading of rural history . The British journal Rural History was founded in 1990, and the Comparative Rural History of the North Sea Area (CORN) research network, originating from Belgium, has existed since 1995.

In Austria, the Institute for the History of Rural Areas (IGLR) was established in St. Pölten in 2002 . In the same year, the Archive for Agricultural History (AfA) was founded in Bern in Switzerland . The ESF-COST action Program for the Study of European Rural Societies (Progressore), which emerged from a French initiative, took place between 2005 and 2009.

The establishment of the European Rural History Organization (EURHO) was initiated at the first international conference on Rural History 2010 in Great Britain. Since 2013, the EURHO has its headquarters in the IGLR St. Pölten.

literature

Introductions

• Werner Rösener : Introduction to Agricultural History . Primus-Verlag, Darmstadt 1997, ISBN 3-89678-310-6 .
• Werner Troßbach, Clemens Zimmermann (ed.): Agricultural history. Positions and Perspectives . Lucius & Lucius, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-8282-0081-8 .
• Ernst Bruckmüller , Ernst Langthaler , Josef Redl (eds.): Writing agricultural history. Traditions and innovations in international comparison (= yearbook for the history of rural areas , vol. 1). StudienVerlag, Innsbruck 2004, ISBN 3-7065-1928-3 .

Overall representations

• Stefan Brakensiek, Rolf Kießling, Werner Troßbach, Clemens Zimmermann (eds.): Basics of agricultural history . Böhlau Verlag, Cologne 2016.
  • Volume 1: Rolf Kießling, Frank Konersmann, Werner Troßbach: From the late Middle Ages to the Thirty Years War (1350–1650) . With a contribution by Dorothee Rippmann . Böhlau Verlag, Cologne 2016. ISBN 978-3-412-22226-0 .
  • Volume 2: Reiner Prass: From the Thirty Years War to the beginning of modernity (1650–1880) . Edited and introduced by Stefan Brakensiek, with a contribution by Jürgen Schlumbohm. ISBN 978-3-412-22227-7 .
  • Volume 3: Gunther Mahlerwein: Die Moderne (1880–2010) . Edited by Clemens Zimmermann. Vienna: Böhlau Verlag 2016. ISBN 978-3-412-22226-0 .

Individual epochs

• Isabel Alfonso (Ed.): The Rural History of Medieval European Societies. Trends and Perspectives (= The Medieval Countryside , Vol. 1). Brepols, Turnhout 2007, ISBN 978-2-503-52069-8 .
• Hartmut Zückert: commons and repeal of commons. Comparative studies on the late Middle Ages up to the agricultural reforms of the 18th and 19th centuries. Century (= sources and research on agricultural history , vol. 47). Lucius and Lucius, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-8282-0226-8 .

Individual countries and regions

• Alois Seidl : German agricultural history . DLG-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, 2nd edition, 2014, ISBN 978-3-7690-0823-4 .
• Siegfried Kuntsche: Contributions to the agricultural history of the GDR . van Derner, Diekhof bei Laage 2015, ISBN 978-3-937747-19-4 .
• Hannes Obermair (Ed.): Rural economies - Economie rurali (= history and region / Storia e regione , vol. 24/1). StudienVerlag, Innsbruck-Wien-Bozen 2015, ISBN 978-3-7065-5459-6 (on Tyrol, including South Tyrol).

Web links

Wiktionary: Agricultural history  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

• Georg Ready : Collective pension to: Basics of agricultural history. on H-Soz-Kult
• Society and Working Group on Agricultural History
• Website of the Institute for the History of Rural Areas in St. Pölten
• Archive for agricultural history in Switzerland
• L'Association d'Histoire des Sociétés Rurales in France
• European Society for Agricultural History

Individual evidence

1. ↑ website IGLR in St. Poelten
2. ^ Website of the archive for agricultural history in Bern
3. ^ Institute for Agricultural Research on the website of the European Rural History Organization