In December 2025 I will publish in Leidschrift:
Het Nederlandse agrarisch bestuursmodel in een periode van modernisering naar marktwerking. Een historische analyse (The Dutch Agricultural Governance Model in a Period of Modernisation towards Market Orientation: A Historical Analysis) . For an English translation click here.
My recent publications are:
Planas, Jordi, Schuurman, Anton, & Segers, Yves (Eds.). (2025). The Formation of Agricultural Governance. The Interplay between State and Civil Society in European Agriculture, 1870-1940. Turnhout: Brepols. In this volume we plead to see the active role civil society organisations played in agricultural governance next to and in support of the state).
Together with Jordi and Yves I wrote the introduction:
The Formation of Agricultural Governance. The Interplay between State and Civil Society in European Agriculture, 1870-1940, pp. 13–37. (this was in 2022 published as a working paper)
My own contribution is titled:
Dutch agricultural governance, 1870s-1930s. The making of agricultural institutions and policies as an outcome of the coevolution of state and civil society. pp. 37–59. It is, as the title state, an application of our emphasis on the important role of civil society in agricultural governance.
Schuurman, Anton. (2022). Changing the narrative, again. Transitions and transformations. TSEG. The 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.
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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