Eric Vanhaute

 

Ufo - History Department Ghent University
Sint Pietersnieuwstraat 35, 9000 Gent
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About

  • Born Turnhout, Belgium, 1959. Lives in Deurne, Antwerp.
  • PhD Ghent University, Belgium, 1989
  • Full Professor Economic and Social History and World History, History Department, Ghent University, Belgium
  • Head of UGent Research Group Communities, Comparisons, Connections
  • Editorial Board Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geschiedenis (2004-2010)
  • Editorial board Rural History. Economy, Society, Culture and Comparativ. Zeitschrift für Globalgeschichte und vergleichende gesellschaftsforshung
  • General Editorial Board CORN Publication Series (Comparative Rural History of the North Sea Area)
  • Co-editor book project Rural Economy and Society in north-western Europe, 500-2000 (Brepols Publishers, 2010-2011)
  • Member Board Dutch-Flemish Research School N.W. Posthumusinstituut
  • Member Research Council Ghent University
  • Elected Member of the Academia Europaea
    • Visiting Research Fellow Fernand Braudel Center for the Study of Economies, Historical Systems and Civilizations, State University of New York at Binghamton, U.S.A. 1991 (Fullbright Grantee)
    • Research Fellow Universiteit van Utrecht, Vakgroep Geschiedenis, Nederland. Project Uitwisseling van Onderzoekers 'Familiale arbeids- en inkomensstrategieën en de herstructurering van de arbeidsmarkt in de 19de en de 20ste eeuw. Uitwerking van een comparatief onderzoeksmodel'. 1996-1997 (VNC- project)
    • Fellow-in-Residence  NIAS - Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences, Nederland, project 'An economic and social history of the last European subsistence crisis, 1845-1850. A Flemish and a comparative perspective'. 2004-2005
    • P.P. Rubens Chair, University of California at Berkeley, VS. Queen Beatrix Chair of Dutch language, literature and culture Berkeley. Visiting Professor History Department, assigned to teach Seminar History 100 'Food and Famine. The historical roots of the global food crisis’. Fall Semester 2008.
    • Universitätsprofessor für Globalgeschichte der frühen Neuzeit, Institut für Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeschichte, Vienna University (Austria), Fall Semester 2011-2012.
    • Visiting Professor Global History, Institute for Social Economy and Culture, Peking University, 2010-2013
    • Visiting Fellow Weatherhead Initiative on Global HistoryHarvard University, Fall Semester 2014-2015.
    • Fellow and Guest of the Director at Re:Work - Work and Human Lifecycle in Global History, Humboldt University, Spring Semester 2014-2015.

Fields of research

  • Rural history, history of the peasantries
  • World history, global studies and world-systems analysis
  • History of labour markets and labour strategies of families
  • Historical statistics; historical information systems

Recent and Running Research Projects 

  • 2013-2016, FWO, Joris Mercelis post-doctoral research fellowship, Photography and the public domain: managing knowledge and intellectual property, 1871-2003
  • 2013-2017, UGent BOF project, PhD student Sven Van Melkebeke, Changing grounds. ‘Free’ and ‘unfree’ coffee-growing labour in the Kivu region, Belgian Congo and Ruanda-Urundi, 1920-1960.
  • 2012-2013, UGent BOF, Joint PhD project Yu Xiao (co-supervisor with prof. Bai, Peking University), The impact of land system on the urban-rural gap in Chin, 1949-2009. An economic-historical reconstruction (Anhui, Jiangsu, Shanghai, Zhejiang)
  • 2011-2014, FWO, Torsten Feys post-doctoral research fellowship, The globalisation of modern border systems and clandestine maritime migration networks, a comparative research between Atlantic and Pacific migration systems (1882-1938)
  • 2010-2013, EU Firenze (co- supervisor with H. Haupt, EU Firenze), PhD project Robrecht Declercq, Saxon fur traders and craftsmen,  an occupational community on the move. A transnational perspective on immigrant entrepreneurship (1880-1950)
  • 2009-2012, UGent BOF (co- supervisor with Ann Heirman), PhD project Julia Schneider, The spread of the sinicization concept in Chinese historiography and political thinking of late Imperial and Republican China (1890s–1949), UGent
  • 2009-2013, FWO (PhD students H. Cottyn and Y. Wang), The end of peasant societies in an historical and comparative perspective. A comparative research project into the changing peasant societies in Europe (Western Europe), Asia (East China) and Latin America (Brazil)
  • 2006-2009, UGent BOF (co-supervisor B. Lecocq), PhD project Petra Vervust, The Limits of Colonial Symbolic Power. Ethnicization and Racialization on Rwanda 1890-1960, UGent
  • 2005-2008, UGent BOF, PhD project S. Hoste, The battle of the migrants. The competition between West-European emigration ports in the 19th century

 

Projects in collaboration with the research group E-E-D (Economy, Ecology, Demography)

  • 2001-2005, Province of East-Flanders, The industrial history of East-Flanders, 1750-1950
  • 2002-2007, BOF UGent (with E. Thoen), Pollution in Flemish cities, 19th-20the centuries, a heuristical research
  • 2003-2006, FWO – Wildiersfonds (with E. Thoen and J. Vannieuwenhuyse Province West-Flanders), Pollution in West-Flanders, 19th and 20th centuries
  • 2004-2007, DWTC (with met M. Nuyttens, State Archives), Business archives 18th-20th centuries, West-Flanders
  • 2006-2009, SERV, with D. Luyten), History of social-economic policies in Flanders and the history of the socio-economic council
  • 2006-2007, Nele Bracke postdoctoral fellowship, FWO, Public statistics in Belgium and Western-Europe in the 19th century
  • 2007-2010, DWTC (with Ch. Van Coppenolle, State Archives), Business archives in East-Flanders, 18th-20th centuries
  • 2008-2011, PhD project Wouter Ronsijn, FWO, Commerce and the countryside.The role of urban weekly markets in Flemish rural society, 1750-1900
  • 2008-2011, PhD project Christa Matthys, FWO, (with I. Devos), Sex and the city. Servants and fertility control in Flanders 1830-1930, 2008-2011
  • 2008-2011, DWTC (with Ch. Van Coppenolle, State Archives), “Onroerende informatie” gebundeld. Een onderzoek naar twee eeuwen functionele en territoriale hervormingen en de implicaties voor de archiefvorming in de buitendiensten van Patrimoniumdocumentatie (A history of the cadastral-fiscal administration, 19th-20th centuries)
  • 2010, EROV (with D. Luyten), 55 jaar EROV – 55 jaar sociaal-economische geschiedenis van Oost-Vlaanderen   (A history of social-economic policy in East-Flanders)
  • 2010-2013, FWO (with D. Luyten), PhD project Ophelia Ongena, National and Regional Tensions in Belgian Economic Politics after WW II (1950-1980). An Integrated analysis of Economic Thought, Institutions, Organizations and Policy
  • 2011-2015, FWO (with Stijn Van de Perre), PhD project Pieter de Reu, The development of the fiscal administration as a manifestation of state capacity and infrastructural power, Southern Netherlands and Belgium (1795-1852)

 

HISSTAT - LOKSTAT    Central Database of Local Statistics in Belgium (19th-20th centuries)

www.hisstat.be   HISSTAT:  2009 – 2013, Hercules Foundation (with I. Devos and VUB, UCL, State Archives). Collaborators: Sven Vrielinck, Torsten Wiedemann.

www.lokstat.be - Historica Database of Local Statistics (1800-2000)

POPP-KAD - Development of a digital land register for mid 19th century Belgium (Hercules Project 2012-2017)

        www.poppkad.ugent.be

GOA - Concerted Research Action Ghent University.

Project “Economic growth and inequality. Explaining divergent regional growth paths in pre-industrial Europe (Late Middle Ages-19th century)”, supervisors Erik Thoen, Eric Vanhaute, Koen Schoors (2015-2019)

Recent and running PhD research

recent

- Julia Schneider (co-promotor with Ann Heirman), The spread of the sinicization concept in Chinese historiography and political thinking of late Imperial and Republican China (1890s–1949).

- Yu Xiao (joint PhD Peking University, co-promotor: prof. Bai), The impact of land system on the urban-rural gap in China: An economic-historical reconstruction (Anhui, Jiangsu, Shanghai, Zhejiang), 1949-2009.

- Christa Matthys (co-promotor with Isabelle Devos), Sex and the City. Servants and Fertility Control in Flanders 1830-1930.

- Petra Vervust, The Limits of Colonial Symbolic Power. Ethnicization and Racialization on Rwanda 1890-1960.

- Wouter Ronsijn, Commerce and the Countryside.The Role of Urban Weekly Markets in Flemish Rural Society, 1750-1900.

- Hanne Cottyn, Renegotiating communal autonomy. Communal land rights and liberal land reform on the Bolivian altiplano. Carangas, 1860-1930.

- Robrecht Declercq (co-promotor with H. Haupt, EU Firenze), Saxon fur traders and craftsmen,  an occupational community on the move. A transnational perspective on immigrant entrepreneurship (1880-1950).

- Stijn Ronse (co-promotor with Glenn Ryapp)Explorations in quantitative economic history.

- Martin Ottovay Joergensen (joint PhD Aalborg University, co-promotor: M. Rostgaard), Revisiting the first United Nations peacekeeping intervention in Egypt and the Gaza Strip, 1956-1967: A Case of Imperial Multilateralism?

 

running

- Jan-Frederik Abbeloos, Born with a Copper Spoon: Combined and Uneven Development on a Globalizing Copper Market (1870-2000).

- Stéphane Hoste, The Bunge Company and transatlantic trade, 1880-1960.

- Yang Wang, Trajectories of peasant transformation: the Yangzi River Delta 19th and 20th centuries.

- Mohameed Akash (co-promotor with J. Van Steenbergen UGent), Echos du massacre de Damas 1860 en Belgique.

- Sven Van Melkebeke, Changing grounds. ‘Free’ and ‘unfree’ coffee-growing labour in the Kivu region, Belgian Congo and Ruanda-Urundi, 1920-1960.

- Frederik De Cocker, The industrial history of East-Flanders, 1750-1900.

- Harry Van Royen, The production of gas and gas lightning in Flanders in the 19th century.

- Wim 'tHooft, Prospection to coal in Belgium, 18th-19th centuries.

- Ophelia Ongena (co- promotor with D. Luyten), National and regional tensions in the Belgian economic politics after World War 2, 1950-1980.

- Pieter De Reu (co-promotor with S. Van de Perre), The construction of a fiscal state in Belgium, 1975-1850

- Tobit Van Damme, Belgian multinational entrepreneurs in the making of a global economy: The business empire of Edouard Empain (1880-1914)

- Rafael Verbuyst (co-promotor with B. Bevernage), Claiming land and history. A meta-historical analysis of historical consciousness and uses of the past in Khoisan land claims and indigenous rights activism in post-apartheid South Africa (Western- and Northern Cape)

 

Courses 2015-2016

Text book (Dutch)/ Text book (English)

 

Full Publications List here

Publications (selection)

Books

  • With DANCET (G.), WILLEKENS (F.), Sociale macro-economie in België. Deel 2. Opbouw en afbraak van een groeispi­raal, Malle, 1986, 127 p. (De Sikkel) (ISBN 90-260-3170-X).
  • De invloed van de groei van het industrieel kapitalisme en van de centrale staat op een agrarisch grensgebied: de Noorder­kempen in de 19de eeuw (1750-1910), Brussel, 1990, 290 p. (Gemeente­krediet, Historische Uitgaven, reeks in -8de, nr. 81) (ISBN 90-5066-063-0).
  • Heiboeren. Bevolking, arbeid en inkomen in de 19de-eeuwse Kempen, Brussel, 1992, 423 p. (VUBPRESS en Centrum voor Landelijke Geschiedenis, nr. 102) (ISBN 90-5487-019-2) (Review)
  • With KOK (J.), KNOTTER (A.), PAPING (R.), Levensloop en levenslot. Arbeidsstrategieën van gezinnen in de negentiende en in de twintigste eeuw, Groningen-Wageningen, 1999, 258 p. (Reeks Historia Agricultura 29) (ISBN 90-367-1155-x).
  • With VAN DONGEN (W.), PAUWELS (K.), Het kostwinnersmodel voorbij? Naar een nieuw basismodel voor de arbeidsverdeling van gezinnen. Samenvatting van de bijdragen Colloquium 20 februari 1997, Brussel, Centrum voor Bevolkings- en Gezinsstudiën, 1997, 48 p.
  • With VAN DONGEN (W.), PAUWELS (K.), Het kostwinnersmodel voorbij? Naar een nieuw basismodel voor de arbeidsverdeling binnen de gezinnen, Brussel, Garant - Centrum voor Bevolkings- en Gezinsstudie, 1998, 223 p. (ISBN 90-5350-708-6). LINK
  • With BLONDE (B.), GALAND (M.), Labour and labour markets between town and countryside (Middle Ages - 19th century, Turnhout, Brepols Publishers, 2001, 304 p. (CORN Publication Series 6) (ISBN 2-503-51281-X).
  • With VANDONGEN (W.), BECK (M.), Beroepsleven en gezinsleven. Het combinatiemodel als motor voor een actieve welvaartsstaat?, Leuven/Apeldoorn-Brussel, Garant - CBGS, 2001, VI-274 p. (ISBN 90-441-1125-6). LINK
  • With ART (J.), Inleiding tot de lokale geschiedenis van de 19de en 20ste eeuw, Gent, Stichting Mens en Cultuur, 2003, 416 p. (ISBN 90-77135-05-7). LINK
  • With O'GRADA (C.), PAPING (R.), When the potato failed. Causes and effects of the 'last' European subsistence crisis, 1845-1850, Turnhout, Brepols Publishers, 2007 (CORN Publication Series 9), 342 p. (ISBN 978-2-503-51985-2).LINK (Review)
  • Eric Vanhaute, Isabelle Devos and Thijs Lambrecht, eds, Rural economy and society in North-Western Europe, 500-2000. Making a living: family, income and labour, Turnhout: Brepols, 2011
  • Wereldgeschiedenis. Een inleiding, Gent, Academia Press, 2008, 2012, X-230 blz (ISBN 978-90-382-1894-4).
  • World History. An Introduction, Routledge, 2013, VIII-182 p. (link Google Books)

Book chapters

  • “Het debat dat er geen was. Sociale stratificatie in de geschiedschrijving”, in: J. Art en L. François (eds.), Docendo Discimus. Liber Amicorum Romain Van Eenoo, Gent, 1999, pp. 229-240.
  • "Structuur en strategie. Twee dorpsgemeenschappen in twee momentopnames. De Turnhoutse Kempen, 1850-1910", in: J. Kok, A. Knotter, R. Paping, E. Vanhaute, Levensloop en levenslot. Arbeidsstrategieën van gezinnen in de negentiende en in de twintigste eeuw, Groningen-Wageningen, 1999, pp. 157-204 (Reeks Historia Agricultura 29).
  • With VANDONGEN (W.), BECK (M.), "Naar een nieuw basismodel voor de combinatie van het gezins- en het beroepsleven?", in: W. Vandongen, M. Beck, E. Vanhaute, Beroepsleven en gezinsleven. Het combinatiemodel als motor voor een actieve welvaartsstaat?, Leuven/Apeldoorn-Brussel, Garant - CBGS, 2001, pp. 1-16.
  • With VANDONGEN (W.), "De leefsituatie van mannen en vrouwen binnen gezin en maatschappij", in: W. Vandongen, M. Beck, E. Vanhaute, Beroepsleven en gezinsleven. Het combinatiemodel als motor voor een actieve welvaartsstaat?, Leuven/Apeldoorn-Brussel, Garant - CBGS, 2001, pp. 57-116.  
  • "Bevolking, arbeid en inkomen", in J. Art en E. Vanhaute (red.), Inleiding tot de lokale geschiedenis van de 19de en 20ste eeuw, Gent, Stichting  Mens en Cultuur, 2003, pp. 113-206
  • "Sporen en trajecten. Geschiedenis van industrie en bedrijf in de 19de en 20ste eeuw", in: G. Deneckere en B. De Wever (red.), Geschiedenis maken. Liber Amicorum Herman Balthazar, Gent, Tijdsbeeld, 2003, pp.175-188.
  • With VANMOLLE (L.), "Het einde van de overlevingslandbouw, 1750-1880", in: Y. Segers en L. Van Molle (eds.), Leven van het land. Boeren in België, 1750-2000, Leuven, Davidsfonds, 2004, pp. 13-47.
  • "Gezin, bevolking en arbeid, 19de en 20ste eeuw", in: M. De Paepe, F. Simon, A. Van Gorp (eds.), Paradoxen van de Pedagogisering. Handboek pedagogische historiografie, Leuven, 2005, pp. 239-266.

     English publications 

Peer reviewed articles (Dutch)

 English peer reviewed articles 

Recent papers and articles

      

Forthcoming

 

Presentations

Lecture China Agricultural University, College of Humanities and Development, 2015 

New Books

Eric Vanhaute, Peasants in World History, Routledge (under contract, 2017)

Eric Vanhaute, World History: An Introduction, Routledge, published November 2012

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      Review in World History Connected (Mark Soderstrom, october 2013)  

      Review in New Global Studies (Pat Manning, november 2013) 

      Review in Geschichte Transnational (Pierre Yves Saunier, february 2014)

      Review in Comparativ (Matthias Middell, october 2014)

      

Italian Edition 2015 (Societa Editrice il Mulino Italy), see here

Copertina Introduzione alla World History

Chinese Edition 2015 (Xinhua Publishing House), see here (Amazon)

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Guest Editor Special issue Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis, 2015, nr 2

Escaping the Great Divergence?
A discussion about and in response to Peer Vries's Escaping Poverty. The Origins of Modern Economic Growth
Content Table

2015 nr.2

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New Book Series!

Rural Economy and Society in Northwestern Europe, 500-2000 (Brepols Publisers)

  • Volume "Making a living. Family, labour and income", edited by Eric vanhaute, Isabelle Devos, Thijs Lambrecht. Introduction - Conclusions

Review in H-Net  (J.M. Gonzalez, july 2014)

       Review in Zeitschrift für Agrargeschte und Agrarsoziologie (J. Marfany, 2013)

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Anne Grauwels, Dirk Luyten, Frank Caestecker, Peter Scholliers, Eric Vanhaute, Hedendaagse economische geschiedenis van België, een inleiding (Academia Press, 2012)

Hedendaagse economische geschiedenis van België, een inleiding

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Eric Vanhaute,  Wereldgeschiedenis. Een inleiding, Academia Press, 2012 (revised edition) (first chapter in Dutch)