After the First World War, the improvement of working and living conditions in agriculture became an international issue for the first time. Led by the International Labour Organization and related organizations, the immediate interwar and post-war years were a fertile time for international debates, knowledge production, and policy-making.
After the First World War, the improvement of working and living conditions in agriculture became an international issue for the first time. Led by the International Labour Organization and related organizations, the immediate interwar and post-war years were a fertile time for international debates, knowledge production, and policy-making.
Amalia Ribi Forclaz is Associate Professor in International History and Politics at the Graduate Institute Geneva. She studied at the University of Bern, the School of Oriental and African Studies in London, and she holds a DPhil in Modern history from Lincoln College, Oxford. Her research interests focus on the history of internationalism, the global history of slavery and abolition, and of agriculture and rural development. Her previous work include the monograph Humanitarian Imperialism. The Politics of Anti-Slavery Activism, 1880-1940 (Oxford University Press: 2015) and the co-edited volume Governing the Rural in Interwar Europe (2017).
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction 1: Putting Agriculture on the Agenda 2: 'Nature Yields to No Law' 3: Cultivating Knowledge 4: Navigating the Crisis and Its Repercussions 5: New Voices of the Countryside 6: War, Disruption, and Transformation 7: The Tropics in Sight Conclusion
Introduction 1: Putting Agriculture on the Agenda 2: 'Nature Yields to No Law' 3: Cultivating Knowledge 4: Navigating the Crisis and Its Repercussions 5: New Voices of the Countryside 6: War, Disruption, and Transformation 7: The Tropics in Sight Conclusion
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