Rural and Environmental History Group
Our mission is the study of long term growth, inequality and sustainable development from a global perspective. More in particular we are interested in long term rural development in relationship to changing environmental and global economic conditions. Our research focuses mostly, but not exclusively, on the modern era (c. 1800-2000).
About usChair holder
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Inauguration Prof.dr. Ewout Frankema
Since July 2012 Ewout Frankema has been appointed as a full professor and chair of the Rural and Environmental History Group at Wageningen University. Frankema’s research agenda focuses on a deeper understanding of the long-term development history of developing regions (Africa, Latin America, Asia).
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Rural History is responsible for the courses and programmes in history at Wageningen University.
We offer courses, free subjects and thesis-subjects. The courses of Rural History address the important social transitions (economical, social, demographical, political, cultural, spatial) and their implications for society and the environment and rural area.
Recent publications Rural and Environmental History
Nederveen Meerkerk, E. van and Schmidt, Ariadne (2012)
‘Reconsidering the ‘First Male Breadwinner Economy’. Long-term Trends in Female Labor Force Participation in the Netherlands, c. 1600-1900’, Feminist Economics 18:4, 69-96.
Frankema, E. (2011).
‘Colonial Taxation and Government Spending in British Africa, 1880-1940: Maximizing Revenue or Minimizing Effort?’,
Explorations in Economic History, 48, 1, 136-149.
Frankema, E. (2010)
‘The Colonial Roots of Land Distribution: Geography, Factor Endowments or Institutions’,
Economic History Review, 63, 2, 418-451
Nederveen Meerkerk, E. van (2010).
‘Market wage or discrimination? The remuneration of male and female wool spinners in the seventeenth-century Dutch Republic’, Economic History Review 63:1, 165-186.