The Awkward Class


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Historical study of the political sociology of peasantry (the self employed rural worker class) in Russia from 1910 to 1925 - examines the major problems, strains and alternatives facing Russia and the position of the peasantry in Russian society, and covers rural area social structures, the socio-economic differentiation and the social mobility of the peasant family, peasant movements, etc. Bibliography pp. 228 to2238, references and statistical tables.




Dutch Colonial Education


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Europa


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Mobility and Biography


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The subject of transnational lives has only recently gained importance in historical research. With its transnational approach to “mobility and biography,” this volume brings together research on aspects of mobility and biography across different times and spaces to open up new interdisciplinary perspectives. Networks, movements and the capacity to become socially or spatially mobile in and across Europe are not only analysed as structural factors, but rather seen as connected to concrete practices of mobility among different groups in the spheres of business, politics and the arts: from Jewish merchants via legal and financial advisors all the way to musicians.




Cruel Paradise: Life Stories of Dutch Emigrants


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Cruel Paradise deftly weaves together the firsthand stories of men and women who emigrated from the Netherlands throughout the twentieth century. Hylke Speerstra interviewed transplanted Netherlanders in Canada, the USA, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa for this book, which vividly recounts the trials and successes of these emigrants.




Psychiatric Cultures Compared


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The comparative global history of mental health care in the twentieth century remains relatively uncharted territory. Psychiatric Cultures Compared offers an overview of various national psychiatric cultures, comparing, for example, advances in Dutch psychiatry with developments abroad. Wide-ranging essays cover analyses of the field of psychiatric nursing, the changing use of psychotropic medicine, the emergence of in- and outpatient mental health sectors, the rise of the anti-psychiatry movement, and a critical look at modern day deinstitutionalization.




Jorwerd


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Jorwerd is a small village in Friesland in the Netherlands. Geert Mak was born in Friesland and he returned to his roots to explore the 'silent revolution' that has taken place in Jorwerd and other villages like it in the years since the Second World War. The village is a form of social organisation that has lasted at least 2000 years yet it has started, slowly but inexorably, to disappear. Recent studies have shown that, by the year 2025, two thirds of the world's population will live in cities and towns. Geert Mak lived in Jorwerd for six months, gathering the personal histories of Jorwerters past and present. By interweaving their lives with the wider history of Europe, Mak provides an unsentimental portrait of the pleasures and hardships of living in the country, while also making plain how rural life everywhere is under threat from the modern world.




The Rise of Mental Health Nursing


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A unique analysis of psychiatric care and the emerging field of mental health nursing in the Netherlands at the turn of the 19th century.




The Transformation of European Agriculture in the Nineteenth Century


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Recoge: Transformación de la agricultura en las provincias costeras, en el Sur y en el Este de los Países Bajos entre 1800 y 1880; la modernización de la agricultura entre 1880 y 1914; la estructura social en relación con dicha modernización.