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Title

The golden age of state enquiries : rural enquiries in the Nineteenth Century : from fact gathering to political instrument / edited by Nadine Vivier.

Publication

Turnhout : Brepols, [2014]

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Additional Authors

Vivier, Nadine.

Description

291 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Summary

The heart of the nineteenth century was the golden age of state enquiries in Europe. This international comparative study highlights the importance of transnational cultural tranfers and the enquiries as a means of construction of the nation state.0Any state intervention in society requires a high degree of knowledge. This is usually given by a state-sponsored enquiry. Some of these surveys can be traced back to Antiquity, but by the nineteenth century enquiries proved to be different because the nature of the state and the distribution of political influence had changed, and the scientific and financial means to investigate had progressed. This new context prompted states to launch large enquiries to assess transformations in the rural world: new techniques, opening to long distance trade. The heart of the nineteenth century was the golden age of state enquiries. Inspired by the nascent sociology, they fulfilled the desire for scientific knowledge accessible to everyone and the search for innovative solutions for the improvement of agriculture and rural life.0Most of those enquiries about the countryside are well known by historians who have built their work on the vast data collections. In a different approach, the present volume does not focus on their content; it examines the origins and functioning of the enquiries as new and important objects of historical research. Fourteen studies are gathered from across twelve countries. The main focus is on Western Europe, with broadening perspectives to the East (Ottoman Empire) and West (Canada and Mexico). The International comparative perspectives highlight the importance of transnational cultural transfers in the nineteenth-century Atlantic world.

Series Statement

Rural History in Europe ; 14

Uniform Title

Rural history in Europe ; 14.

Alternative Title

Rural enquiries in the Nineteenth Century : from fact gathering to political instrument

Subjects

• Social surveys > Political aspects
• Europe > Social policy

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

The Age of monumental investigations / Nadine Vivier -- Inquiries or statistics? Agricultural surveys and methodological considerations in the nineteenth century / Ute Schneider -- The development of official knowledge about Irish rural society in the nineteenth century / Peter Gray -- Searching for economic and adminstrative reforms: the enquiry of 1863 in the Ottoman Empire / Alp Yucel Kaya -- The 1866 agricultural enquiry in France. Economic enquiry or political manoeuvre? / Nadine Vivier -- The Jacini enquiry in Italy, 1877-1885 / Guiliana Biagioli -- Agricultural change and politics in late nineteenth-century Britain: the equiries of two Royal Commissions, 1879-1879 / Robert M. Schwartz -- The state of the rural poor. The agricultural labourer and the Royal Commission, on Labour in 1890s England / Nicola Verdon -- The French parliamentary inquiry of 1884: a response to multiple crises / Jonathan J. Liebowitz -- The 1879-1880 enquiries on agriculture in Hungary / Andras Vari -- Spanish agriculture and the government enquiry. La crisis agricola y percauaria, 1887-1889 / Juan Carmona & James Simpson -- The 1896 parliamentary enquiry report in Denmark / Ingrid Henriksen -- The agricultural enquiry of 1890 in the Netherlands. Bringing the state back in / Anton Schuurman -- Seeing modern agriculture: Ontario's agricultural commission of 1880 Daniel Samson -- Agricultural statistics in modern Mexico: a real world as an imagined reality? / Alejandro Tortolero.

Call Number

JFE 15-4912

ISBN

• 9782503552842
• 2503552846

OCLC

882899632

Title

The golden age of state enquiries : rural enquiries in the Nineteenth Century : from fact gathering to political instrument / edited by Nadine Vivier.

Imprint

Turnhout : Brepols, [2014]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Rural History in Europe ; 14

Rural history in Europe ; 14.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Added Author

Vivier, Nadine.

Note

Rural enquiries in the Nineteenth Century : from fact gathering to political instrument

Research Call Number

JFE 15-4912