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Land, staat en bevolking. De wederopbouw van het Belgische platteland na de Eerste Wereldoorlog KU Leuven
This dissertation analyses the reconstruction of the Belgian countryside after the First World War. The study starts from the hypothesis that post-war recovery was characterized by a growing belief in the benefits of social engineering. Although historians generally situate the advent of social engineering after 1945, this dissertation shows that already during the First World War plans were made to rationally reconstruct society. Three aspects ...
World War I and the reconstruction of rural landscapes in Belgium and France: a historiographical essay KU Leuven
This historiographical article assesses the ways in which (agricultural) historians have examined the reconstruction of rural landscapes in Belgium and France after the First World War. It reveals three axes of research, each of which emerged from the 1980s onwards. The first axis mainly focuses on the key actors of reconstruction. It is argued that a top-down perspective was gradually replaced by an emphasis on the agency of private ...