Eric Vanhaute
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 135016 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Eric Vanhaute |
| NOMBRES | Eric |
| APELLIDO | Vanhaute |
| FIRMA | VANHAUTE E |
| AFILIACIONES | Ghent University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1012-7924 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 22 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 90 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 22 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1991 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
The Global Enclosure and the Remaking of Peasantries, 1870–1950
Peasant transformation has often been framed in dichotomous, linear, and predominantly a-historical models. This article adopts a dynamic perspective and shows how the developments that have often been regarded as constituent to the long-term process of the decline of agriculture and peasant worlds were in fact part of the spread of more diversified labour and income strategies of the peasantries. In the movement towards a worldwide enclosure of …
Peasant frontiers as a research strategy
Common land rights are nowadays identified as a pivotal action terrain for building sustainable development and climate resilience. This often leads to an idealisation of these common land systems and the people that manage them. This article presents a research strategy that elaborates on the notion of frontiers to unpack peasant resilience and common land rights as the outcome of a long history of peasant adaptation, resistance and self-reinven…
Peasant Frontiers and the Enigma of Peasant Work
Peasant households produce most of the food in the world today, as they have for millennia. Concentrated in China and India, and spread across the Global South, the variegated persistence of differentiated peasantries and their labor remains one of the most fundamental questions of the 21st century. In this contribution, Eric Vanhaute argues that peasants have underwritten and fueled the expansion of civilizations, empires, states, and economies …
Commodity frontiers and global histories
Given the alarming pace of climate change, global environmental destruction, and associated social dislocations and inequalities, a global history that also speaks to the present is more important now than ever. We started our article with a pointed argument that '[t]he history of the making of the modern world is a history of the expansion of commodity frontiers, a historical conundrum so spatially, socially, and structurally all-encompassing th…
Commodity frontiers and the transformation of the global countryside
Over the past 600 years, commodity frontiers – processes and sites of the incorporation of resources into the expanding capitalist world economy – have absorbed ever more land, ever more labour and ever more natural assets. In this paper, we claim that studying the global history of capitalism through the lens of commodity frontiers and using commodity regimes as an analytical framework is crucial to understanding the origins and nature of capita…
Immanuel Wallerstein’s lasting impact on the field of world history
In this paper I discuss the deep impact of Immanuel Wallerstein’s work on the vibrant field of world and global history. I focus on the questions of scale, ambition, and convergence and divergence. I conclude with some epistemological reflections on the challenges and limits of a world-historical perspective
A World with Agriculture, 12,000 BCE–500 CE. On CWH volume II
Evolution of land distribution in the context of development theories
A history of the world in seven cheap things
What does a chicken nugget tell us about the history of capitalism? The book by Jason Moore and Raj Patel starts with this simple yet compelling question. The nugget immediately draws the reader in
Famine in European History
This is the first systematic study of famine in all parts of Europe from the Middle Ages until the present. In case studies ranging from Scandinavia and Italy to Ireland and Russia, leading scholars compare the characteristics, consequences and causes of famine. The famines they describe differ greatly in size, duration and context; in many cases the damage wrought by poor harvests was confounded by war. The roles of human action, malfunctioning …
Escaping the Great Divergence? A discussion about and in response to Peer Vries's Escaping poverty. The origins of modern economic growth. An introduction
TSEG (Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis) - The Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History, is het Nederlands-Vlaamse vaktijdschrift op het gebied van de sociale en economische geschiedenis
Cutting the Gordian Knot of World History
This essay evaluates the new road Giovanni Arrighi paves in Adam Smith in Beijing (2007) in relation to the scholarly debate on Europe's Great Divergence and the remarkable resurgence of East Asia in the global economy at the end of the twentieth century. At the center of Adam Smith in Beijing is the argument that the probability has increased that we are witnessing the formation of an "East Asian-centered world-market society, " rivaling the his…
Famine, exchange networks and the village community. A comparative analysis of the subsistence crises of the 1740s and the 1840s in Flanders
This article focuses on local agency in two near-famines in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Flanders. Our comparative analysis of the food crises of 1740 and 1845–1847 in Flanders exposes the local mechanisms of coping and protection, both in an informal and a formal way. The main thesis is that the impact of hunger crises in peasant societies is directly related to the level of stress absorption within the local village community. Our finding…
From famine to food crisis
The number of famine prone regions in the world has been shrinking for centuries. It is currently mainly limited to sub-Saharan Africa. Yet the impact of endemic hunger has not declined and the early twenty-first century seems to be faced with a new threat: global subsistence crises. In this essay I question the concepts of famine and food crisis from different analytical angles: historical and contemporary famine research, food regime theory, an…
De grenzen van koloniale symbolische macht. Etnicisering en racialisering in Rwanda 1890-1960
De eerste Europeanen die voet zetten in Rwanda waren gefascineerd door de plaatselijke bevolking en meer bepaald door de driedeling van deze bevolking in wat ze volksstammen, maar ook etnische groepen, rassen, enzovoort noemden. De manier waarop ze hen fotografeerden en beschreven was een manifestatie van koloniale symbolische macht in het vormgeven van etniciteit en ras. Wanneer symbolische macht met Pierre Bourdieu gedefinieerd wordt als de mac…
De grenzen van koloniale symbolische macht. Etnicisering en racialisering in Rwanda 1890-1960
Economische verandering in inkomensongelijkheid. De inkomensverdeling in de Oost-Vlaamse steden in de negentiende eeuw
TSEG (Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis) - The Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History, is het Nederlands-Vlaamse vaktijdschrift op het gebied van de sociale en economische geschiedenis
Structure and strategy. Two rural communities in the Kempen region of Belgium, 1850–1910
This article starts with a methodological question: By carrying out a structural analysis of a local community, is it possible to gain insight into the labor strategies of the families within that community? This structural analysis is based on the reconstruction and integration of population, labor, and income data of individual households within two villages in 19th century Belgium. Basically, this exercise is to understand two sets of correlat…
Rich Agriculture and Poor Farmers
This article focuses on the property relations in Belgian and Flemish agriculture in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The main question is: what was the relationship between land use, land ownership and land rents? By analysing the position of the (small) farmers and of the (small) landlords we could confirm that the dominance of small-scale farming coincided with a specific pattern of property distribution and surplus extraction. The hig…
Agrarian labour and food production in a peripheral region [Agricultural dynamics in the Anwerp Campine in the "long" nineteenth century]
This contribution examines the interaction between food supply, consumptive demand and agrarian labour in a peripheral rural area, the 19th century Antwerp Campine. First the pattern of human consumption is traced, determining an « average » basic menu. Then, in a second part, the responses of the Kempen agricultural system to the changing consumer demands are studied. The focus is on labour input, both in crop growing and in stock-breeding. Fina…
Between patterns and processes
Although the relationship between “internal” household strategies and “external” constraints has received much attention in recent family history, the debate about the conceptualization of “historical time” and the measurement of the micro-macro-linkages is still in its infancy. The aim of this article is two-fold: (a) to emphasize the importance of recurrence in historical time, by tracing three periods of acceleration in the societal changes of…
Bibliographie de l'Histoire de Belgique — Bibliografie van de Geschiedenis van België. 1989
Commodity frontiers and the transformation of the global countryside
Over the past 600 years, commodity frontiers – processes and sites of the incorporation of resources into the expanding capitalist world economy – have absorbed ever more land, ever more labour and ever more natural assets. In this paper, we claim that studying the global history of capitalism through the lens of commodity frontiers and using commodity regimes as an analytical framework is crucial to understanding the origins and nature of capita…
From famine to food crisis
The number of famine prone regions in the world has been shrinking for centuries. It is currently mainly limited to sub-Saharan Africa. Yet the impact of endemic hunger has not declined and the early twenty-first century seems to be faced with a new threat: global subsistence crises. In this essay I question the concepts of famine and food crisis from different analytical angles: historical and contemporary famine research, food regime theory, an…
A history of the world in seven cheap things
What does a chicken nugget tell us about the history of capitalism? The book by Jason Moore and Raj Patel starts with this simple yet compelling question. The nugget immediately draws the reader in
Rich Agriculture and Poor Farmers
This article focuses on the property relations in Belgian and Flemish agriculture in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The main question is: what was the relationship between land use, land ownership and land rents? By analysing the position of the (small) farmers and of the (small) landlords we could confirm that the dominance of small-scale farming coincided with a specific pattern of property distribution and surplus extraction. The hig…
Commodity frontiers and global histories
Given the alarming pace of climate change, global environmental destruction, and associated social dislocations and inequalities, a global history that also speaks to the present is more important now than ever. We started our article with a pointed argument that '[t]he history of the making of the modern world is a history of the expansion of commodity frontiers, a historical conundrum so spatially, socially, and structurally all-encompassing th…
Famine, exchange networks and the village community. A comparative analysis of the subsistence crises of the 1740s and the 1840s in Flanders
This article focuses on local agency in two near-famines in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Flanders. Our comparative analysis of the food crises of 1740 and 1845–1847 in Flanders exposes the local mechanisms of coping and protection, both in an informal and a formal way. The main thesis is that the impact of hunger crises in peasant societies is directly related to the level of stress absorption within the local village community. Our finding…
Evolution of land distribution in the context of development theories
Cutting the Gordian Knot of World History
This essay evaluates the new road Giovanni Arrighi paves in Adam Smith in Beijing (2007) in relation to the scholarly debate on Europe's Great Divergence and the remarkable resurgence of East Asia in the global economy at the end of the twentieth century. At the center of Adam Smith in Beijing is the argument that the probability has increased that we are witnessing the formation of an "East Asian-centered world-market society, " rivaling the his…
Structure and strategy. Two rural communities in the Kempen region of Belgium, 1850–1910
This article starts with a methodological question: By carrying out a structural analysis of a local community, is it possible to gain insight into the labor strategies of the families within that community? This structural analysis is based on the reconstruction and integration of population, labor, and income data of individual households within two villages in 19th century Belgium. Basically, this exercise is to understand two sets of correlat…
Between patterns and processes
Although the relationship between “internal” household strategies and “external” constraints has received much attention in recent family history, the debate about the conceptualization of “historical time” and the measurement of the micro-macro-linkages is still in its infancy. The aim of this article is two-fold: (a) to emphasize the importance of recurrence in historical time, by tracing three periods of acceleration in the societal changes of…
Bibliographie de l'Histoire de Belgique — Bibliografie van de Geschiedenis van België. 1989
Agrarian labour and food production in a peripheral region [Agricultural dynamics in the Anwerp Campine in the "long" nineteenth century]
This contribution examines the interaction between food supply, consumptive demand and agrarian labour in a peripheral rural area, the 19th century Antwerp Campine. First the pattern of human consumption is traced, determining an « average » basic menu. Then, in a second part, the responses of the Kempen agricultural system to the changing consumer demands are studied. The focus is on labour input, both in crop growing and in stock-breeding. Fina…
Between patterns and processes
Although the relationship between “internal” household strategies and “external” constraints has received much attention in recent family history, the debate about the conceptualization of “historical time” and the measurement of the micro-macro-linkages is still in its infancy. The aim of this article is two-fold: (a) to emphasize the importance of recurrence in historical time, by tracing three periods of acceleration in the societal changes of…
Rich Agriculture and Poor Farmers
This article focuses on the property relations in Belgian and Flemish agriculture in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The main question is: what was the relationship between land use, land ownership and land rents? By analysing the position of the (small) farmers and of the (small) landlords we could confirm that the dominance of small-scale farming coincided with a specific pattern of property distribution and surplus extraction. The hig…
Structure and strategy. Two rural communities in the Kempen region of Belgium, 1850–1910
This article starts with a methodological question: By carrying out a structural analysis of a local community, is it possible to gain insight into the labor strategies of the families within that community? This structural analysis is based on the reconstruction and integration of population, labor, and income data of individual households within two villages in 19th century Belgium. Basically, this exercise is to understand two sets of correlat…
Economische verandering in inkomensongelijkheid. De inkomensverdeling in de Oost-Vlaamse steden in de negentiende eeuw
TSEG (Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis) - The Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History, is het Nederlands-Vlaamse vaktijdschrift op het gebied van de sociale en economische geschiedenis
De grenzen van koloniale symbolische macht. Etnicisering en racialisering in Rwanda 1890-1960
De eerste Europeanen die voet zetten in Rwanda waren gefascineerd door de plaatselijke bevolking en meer bepaald door de driedeling van deze bevolking in wat ze volksstammen, maar ook etnische groepen, rassen, enzovoort noemden. De manier waarop ze hen fotografeerden en beschreven was een manifestatie van koloniale symbolische macht in het vormgeven van etniciteit en ras. Wanneer symbolische macht met Pierre Bourdieu gedefinieerd wordt als de mac…
De grenzen van koloniale symbolische macht. Etnicisering en racialisering in Rwanda 1890-1960
Cutting the Gordian Knot of World History
This essay evaluates the new road Giovanni Arrighi paves in Adam Smith in Beijing (2007) in relation to the scholarly debate on Europe's Great Divergence and the remarkable resurgence of East Asia in the global economy at the end of the twentieth century. At the center of Adam Smith in Beijing is the argument that the probability has increased that we are witnessing the formation of an "East Asian-centered world-market society, " rivaling the his…
Famine, exchange networks and the village community. A comparative analysis of the subsistence crises of the 1740s and the 1840s in Flanders
This article focuses on local agency in two near-famines in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Flanders. Our comparative analysis of the food crises of 1740 and 1845–1847 in Flanders exposes the local mechanisms of coping and protection, both in an informal and a formal way. The main thesis is that the impact of hunger crises in peasant societies is directly related to the level of stress absorption within the local village community. Our finding…
From famine to food crisis
The number of famine prone regions in the world has been shrinking for centuries. It is currently mainly limited to sub-Saharan Africa. Yet the impact of endemic hunger has not declined and the early twenty-first century seems to be faced with a new threat: global subsistence crises. In this essay I question the concepts of famine and food crisis from different analytical angles: historical and contemporary famine research, food regime theory, an…
Escaping the Great Divergence? A discussion about and in response to Peer Vries's Escaping poverty. The origins of modern economic growth. An introduction
TSEG (Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis) - The Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History, is het Nederlands-Vlaamse vaktijdschrift op het gebied van de sociale en economische geschiedenis
Famine in European History
This is the first systematic study of famine in all parts of Europe from the Middle Ages until the present. In case studies ranging from Scandinavia and Italy to Ireland and Russia, leading scholars compare the characteristics, consequences and causes of famine. The famines they describe differ greatly in size, duration and context; in many cases the damage wrought by poor harvests was confounded by war. The roles of human action, malfunctioning …
A history of the world in seven cheap things
What does a chicken nugget tell us about the history of capitalism? The book by Jason Moore and Raj Patel starts with this simple yet compelling question. The nugget immediately draws the reader in
A World with Agriculture, 12,000 BCE–500 CE. On CWH volume II
Evolution of land distribution in the context of development theories
Peasant Frontiers and the Enigma of Peasant Work
Peasant households produce most of the food in the world today, as they have for millennia. Concentrated in China and India, and spread across the Global South, the variegated persistence of differentiated peasantries and their labor remains one of the most fundamental questions of the 21st century. In this contribution, Eric Vanhaute argues that peasants have underwritten and fueled the expansion of civilizations, empires, states, and economies …
Commodity frontiers and global histories
Given the alarming pace of climate change, global environmental destruction, and associated social dislocations and inequalities, a global history that also speaks to the present is more important now than ever. We started our article with a pointed argument that '[t]he history of the making of the modern world is a history of the expansion of commodity frontiers, a historical conundrum so spatially, socially, and structurally all-encompassing th…
Commodity frontiers and the transformation of the global countryside
Over the past 600 years, commodity frontiers – processes and sites of the incorporation of resources into the expanding capitalist world economy – have absorbed ever more land, ever more labour and ever more natural assets. In this paper, we claim that studying the global history of capitalism through the lens of commodity frontiers and using commodity regimes as an analytical framework is crucial to understanding the origins and nature of capita…
Immanuel Wallerstein’s lasting impact on the field of world history
In this paper I discuss the deep impact of Immanuel Wallerstein’s work on the vibrant field of world and global history. I focus on the questions of scale, ambition, and convergence and divergence. I conclude with some epistemological reflections on the challenges and limits of a world-historical perspective
Peasant frontiers as a research strategy
Common land rights are nowadays identified as a pivotal action terrain for building sustainable development and climate resilience. This often leads to an idealisation of these common land systems and the people that manage them. This article presents a research strategy that elaborates on the notion of frontiers to unpack peasant resilience and common land rights as the outcome of a long history of peasant adaptation, resistance and self-reinven…
The Global Enclosure and the Remaking of Peasantries, 1870–1950
Peasant transformation has often been framed in dichotomous, linear, and predominantly a-historical models. This article adopts a dynamic perspective and shows how the developments that have often been regarded as constituent to the long-term process of the decline of agriculture and peasant worlds were in fact part of the spread of more diversified labour and income strategies of the peasantries. In the movement towards a worldwide enclosure of …
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