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The Rural History Network (RHN) is one of the 28 networks around which the bi-annual European Social Science History Conference (ESSHC) is organized by the International Institute of Social History (IISH) Amsterdam.
The network-approach is conducive to organizing interdisciplinary panel sessions for an interdisciplinary and international audience.
We strive to function as a Rural History Network - a group of rural historians that meet each other at least bi-annual at the conferences.
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The Rural History Network within the ESSHC is an excellent opportunity to develop contacts between historians and social scientists working in different fields of rural history (and social history in general) and to explore interdisciplinary work. Scholars from all over Europe, but also from the USA and even other continents meet each other here. The next conference will be held in Glasgow, Scotland, UK, 11-14 April 2012.
We support a diverse rural history, that investigates social, economic, political, cultural, ecological, spatial, demographic dimensions through qualitative and quantitave studies worldwide and situates them in the context of broader social and historical themes.
We welcome contributions from 'rural cultural heritage' to 'survival strategies and standard of living of rural household'; from village studies in the Middle Ages to the consequences of the rapid industrialization in China for the countryside in the last quarter of the twentieth century.
At this site you will find information on
- the Rural History Network
- the Call for papers for the conference in Glasgow 2012
- the RHN-sessions of the conferences in Ghent (2010), Lisbon (2008) and Amsterdam (2006)
- the European Social Science History Conference