Rural and Environmental History Group
The mission of the Rural and Environmental History Group (RHI) is to offer temporal depth to societal debates and social theories on sustainable and equitable welfare development.
Impact stories
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Unfair Trade? Globalisation, Institutions and Inequality in Southeast Asia, 1830-1940
How did trade and the operations of colonial powers affect economic development and social relations in a region? Pim de Zwart, researcher at the... -
Shifting patterns of African migration between 1800 and today
Seeking fortune or fleeing existential threat? Few topics are as politically charged and give rise to discussions as intense as migration. Together...
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News
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Kate Frederick wins dissertation price
- At every World Economic History Congress a number of prizes are awarded for the best PhD dissertations. -
WUR to research own colonial history
- In the coming years, Wageningen University & Research (WUR) will be investigating its own ties with the colonial past of the Netherlands. A yet to... -
Forced labour in nineteenth century Java cost many lives
- In the nineteenth century, Javanese peasants were forced to work on plantations for low wages. This was an economic success, but at the cost of a... -
2 fully funded PhD positions and 2 Postdoc positions (4 year terms), Wageningen University, The Netherlands
- While economic historians have made great efforts to investigate the origins and drivers of the Great Divergence between the global North and South,... -
Universiteit van Nederland; Bestaat een wereld zonder armoede?
- Kun jij je voorstellen dat je moet rondkomen van minder dan 2 euro per dag? Voor meer dan 700 miljoen mensen is dit werkelijkheid. In dit college...
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Latest publications
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Excuses voor slavernij? Denk dan ook aan Java
Trouw (2022). - p. 22 - 22. -
The formation of agricultural governance: the interplay between state and civil society in European agriculture, 1870-1940
: Sociedad de Estudios de Historia Agraria (Documentos de Trabajo 2204) - p. 1 - 18. -
Our Long Walk to Economic Freedom. Lessons from 100 000 Years of History Cape Town: Tafelberg, 2021. pp. 255
Economic History Review 75 (2022). - ISSN 0013-0117 - p. 633 - 634. -
Female autonomy generated successful long-term human capital development : Evidence from 16th to 19th century Europe
World Development 158 (2022). - ISSN 0305-750X -
Veni grant: Who 'wasted' the great depression in Africa?
Wie 'verspilde' de grote depressie in Afrika? : Veni-beurs, Resource jrg. 16 nr. 19 p. 22-23, 2022-06-17, https://edepot.wur.nl/572376;Veni grant: Who 'wasted' the great depression in Africa?, Resource jrg. 16 nr. 19 p. 22-23, 2022-06-16, https://edepot.wur.nl/572468