Rural History 37, 1 (2026)

RHN 34/2026 | Publication

Rural History: Economy, Society, Culture

Volume 37 – Issue 01 – April 2026

 

Table of Contents:

Where Next in Rural History?

Rural worlds remembered: A thematic journey through historiographical shifts
Chen Zhan, Amir Karimi

 

Research Articles

Rural parish workhouses during the later Old Poor Law
Matthew Bayly

Exploring women’s work in early modern rural Italy: Insights from the Republic of Venice
Andrea Caracausi, Mattia Viale

Weather, agriculture, and economic stability: Reassessing the impact of temperature and precipitation on early modern Tuscany (16th–17th century)
Luigi Oddo, Paul Erdkamp

That sticky feeling: The evolution and impact of wool cooperatives in the American West, 1880–1930
Iker Saitua

Private interest and public policy: land reclamation in the Tuscan Maremma (1860s–1950s)
Elisabetta Novello

Spring piglets or autumn piglets? Negotiating the role of nature in the spaces and practices of raising piglets in Finland, c. 1910s–30s
Eeva Nikkilä

The Loddon Drainage Association: A landowner controlled local drainage scheme after the Great War
Gareth Richard Jones

Central–local relations in early People’s Republic of China’s agricultural procurement reform: The case of the ‘Three-Fix’ policy in Funan County
Weiwen Zhou, Jian Xue

Technology, labour, livestock, and the Maoist developmental state: Four-wheeled tractors in China, 1953–1963
Joseph Lawson, Chunji Wang, Zheng Li

Migrants’ slavery in the rural areas of the continental Mezzogiorno
Francesco Dandolo, Renato Raffaele Amoroso, Mattia Muscherà

 

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