Contributors

Fulgence Delleaux is Professor of Modern History at the University of Namur. He specializes in the economic, social, and emotional history of European rural areas (France, the Netherlands, and Switzerland), primarily in the eighteenth century.

Federico D’Onofrio is Associate Professor at the Institute for Social and Economic History of the University of Vienna, where he studies the history of data and economic thought. He leads the European Research Council starting grant ‘Leading the first data revolution in European agriculture 1870–1945’.

James D. Fisher is a historian of work, knowledge, and capitalism in early modern Britain. He joined the University of Exeter as Lecturer in Early Modern History in 2023. He is the author of The Enclosure of Knowledge: Books, Power and Agrarian Capitalism in Britain, 1660–1800 (Cambridge, 2022).

Laurent Herment is Directeur de recherche at CNRS Paris (CRH-EHESS). He works on agrarian systems and agro-industry in north-western Europe during the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth centuries, with a special focus on fertilizers and starch production. He also works on the starch global commodity chain, specifically on potatoes and cassava.

Richard Hoyle was Professor of Rural History at the University of Reading, then Professor of Local and Regional History at the Institute of Historical Research. He now holds an honorary (visiting) chair at the University of Reading. He was for two decades editor of Agricultural History Review.

Nathalie Joly is Senior Lecturer of Rural Sociology at L’Institut Agro Dijon and an Associated Researcher at the French National Institute for Research on Agriculture, Food and Environment (INRAE). Her research focuses on the writing and calculating cultures of the French peasantry, addressing their social framing by scholars, rural elites, and education.

Markus Lampe is Professor for Economic and Social History at Vienna University of Economics and Business, and Visiting Professor at the University of Gothenburg. His areas of research include the history of international trade and trade policy, agricultural history, and the history of real estate markets.

Peter Moser is the founder (2002) and since then Director of the Archives of Rural History in Bern (AHR, www.agrararchiv.ch). He is President of the European Rural History Film Association ERHFA (www.ruralfilms.eu) and, since 2022, member of the Executive Committee of the Agricultural History Society in the USA.

Friederike Scholten-Buschhoff studied History and English/American Studies at the University of Münster. She earned her doctorate at Münster in 2020. She currently works as an analyst for global Crop Protection markets and as a freelance historian.

Paul Sharp is Professor of Economic History at the Historical Economics and Development Group, University of Southern Denmark. He works on topics relating to Danish agricultural and economic history.