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My recent publications are:

Schuurman, Anton. (2022). Changing the narrative, again. Transitions and transformations. TSEGThe Low Countries Journal for Social and Economic History, 19(1), 87-109. doi: 10.52024/tseg.11394 – This article is a plea for seeing history as an open process and focus on transitions.

Planas, Jordi, Schuurman, Anton, & Segers, Yves. (2022). The formation of agricultural governance: The interplay between state and civil society in european agriculture, 1870-1940. DT-SEHA (Documentos de Trabajo de la Sociedad Española de Historia Agraria) Retrieved from https://ideas.repec.org/p/seh/wpaper/2204.html – This working paper is from work in progress. Planas, Segers and we hope to publish in 2025 in the Rural History series of Brepols an edited book on Organizing agriculture, 1870-1940.

Schuurman, Anton. (2022). History and sociology. In Joost Jongerden & Han Wiskerke (Eds.), On meaningful diversity: past, present and future of Wageningen rural sociology (pp. 68-70). Wageningen: Wageningen University, Rural Sociology Group. Retrieved from: https://edepot.wur.nl/578520 – This and the next article were written at the occasion of the 75 anniversary of Rural Sociology in Wageningen.

Schuurman, Anton. (2022). One map tells more than 1000 words – but pay attention! In Joost Jongerden & Han Wiskerke (Eds.), On meaningful diversity: past, present and future of Wageningen rural sociology (pp. 48-51). Wageningen: Wageningen University, Rural Sociology Group. Retrieved from: https://edepot.wur.nl/578519 – This article is about the “puzzle of Hofstee” a tool that he designed for making maps. Specifically, it explains the map that is still on display in the Leeuwenborch-building from Wageningen Univerity.

Schuurman, Anton. (2021). De wording en verdwijning van het Nederlandse platteland als boerenland, vanaf 1870. Een ruimtelijke en sociale analyse. In Elles Bulder, Marijn Molema & Vincent Tassenaar (Eds.), Spitten in de economische en sociale geschiedenis (pp. 109-125). Hilversum: Verloren. – This is an article in Dutch about the history of the countryside as farmers land.

Schuurman, Anton, & Gimbrère, Michèle (Eds.). (2021). History in Wageningen. From AAG to RHi and beyond. Some personal trajectories. Wageningen: PALM-Uitgevers. – This booklet is a private publication (for loan in the Wageningen University library) on the history of the department of Rural History and my own work there.

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