Eric Vanhaute

 

Ufo - History Department Ghent University
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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 History, Harvard 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 19^th 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, 19^th-20^th 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 19^th 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

• Introduction to World History

Text book (Dutch)/ Text book (English)

• Historical Economics (Ba3 History)

• Research Seminar World History and Global Studies (Ma History, Ma Global Studies). Theme: Tierra o Muerte. Peoples and their struggles for land in a globalizing world.

• Critical Global Theories (Ma History, Ma Global Studies)

 

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 

• With THOEN (Erik), “The ‘Flemish Husbandry’ at the edge. The farming system on small holdings in the middle of the nineteenth century”, in: B.J.P. Van Bavel - E. Thoen (eds.), Land Productivity and  Agro-Systems in the North Sea Area, Turnhout, Brepols Publishers, 1999, pp. 271-296 (Corn Publication Series 2).
• With DEJONGH (Guy), “Arable productivity in Belgian agriculture, c.1800 – c.1950”, in: B.J.P. Van Bavel - E. Thoen (eds.), Land Productivity and  Agro-Systems in the North Sea Area, Turnhout, Brepols Publishers, 1999, pp. 65-84 (Corn Publication Series 2).
• With VANSCHOENBEEK (G.) en VAN MOLLE (L.), "The Workers' Party against the Farmers' League. Social-democracy and the peasantry in Belgium, 1893-1914", in: A. Blok e.a. (red.), Urban radicals, rural allies. Social Democracy and the agrarian issue 1870-1914, Bern, Peter Lang, 2001, pp. 143-159.
• “Breadwinner models and historical models. Transitions in labour relations and labour markets in Belgium, 19^th – 20^th centuries”, in: H. Jensen, The welfare state. Past, present, future, Pisa, Edizione Plus, 2002, pp. 59-76 (Clioh’s Workshop II, dl. IV)
• “Ricardo in Flanders. Landlords and tenants in Flemish agriculture in 18th and 19th centuies”, in: B. Van Bavel - P. Hoppenbrouwers (eds.), Landholding and landtransfer in the North Sea Area (late Middle Ages - 19th century),Turnhout, Brepols Publishers, 2004, (Corn Publication Series 5), pp. 67-85.
• With VAN MOLLE (Leen), " Belgian agrarian and rural history, 1800-2000", in: E. Thoen and L. Van Molle (eds.), Rural History in the North Sea Area. An overview of recent research (Middle Ages - 20th century), Turnhout, Brepols Publishers, 2006, (Corn Publication Series 1), pp. 217-248.
• "'So worthy an example to Ireland'. The subsistance and industrial crisis of 1845-1850 in Flanders", in: C. O'Grada, R. Paping and E. Vanhaute (eds), When the potato failed. Causes and effects of the 'last' European subsistence crisis, 1845-1850, Turnhout, Brepols Publishers, 2007 (CORN Publication Series 9), pp. 123-148.
• With O'GRADA (C.), PAPING (R.), "The European subsistence crisis of 1845-1850. A comparative perspective", in: C. O'Grada, R. Paping and E. Vanhaute (eds), When the potato failed. Causes and effects of the 'last' European subsistance crisis, 1845-1850, Turnhout, Brepols Publishers, 2007 (CORN Publication Series 9), pp. 15-42.
• With MATTHYS (C.), "A ‘silent class’ and a ‘quiet revolution’. Female domestics and fertility decline in Flanders", in: A. Janssens (ed.), Gendering the fertility decline in the Western world, Bern, Lang Publishers, 2007, pp. 335-364).

Peer reviewed articles (Dutch)

• "Wolbewerking op het Turnhoutse platteland (1750-1850). Enkele bedenkingen bij het verstomd proto-industrieel debat", Tijdschrift voor Sociale Geschiedenis, 1991, 1, pp. 28-49.
• With DE BELDER (J.), VRIELINCK (S.), "Naar een Kwantitatieve Databank van de Belgische Gemeenten. Verslag van een proefproject", Belgisch Tijdschrift voor Nieuwste Geschiedenis, 1992, 3-4, pp. 355-414.
• "Eigendomsverhoudingen in de Belgische en Vlaamse landbouw tijdens de 18de en de 19de eeuw", Belgisch Tijdschrift voor Nieuwste Geschiedenis, 1993, 1-2, pp. 185-226.
• "'De meest moordende van alle industrieën'. De huisnijverheid in België omstreeks 1900",Tijdschrift voor Sociale Geschiedenis, 1994, 4, pp. 461-483.
• "Chacun est propriétaire ou espère le devenir. Het grondbezit in Vlaanderen, begin 19de eeuw - begin 20ste eeuw", in: Belgisch Tijdschrift voor Nieuwste Geschiedenis, 1996, 1-2, pp. 105-131.
• Review van Charles Tilly, Durable Inequality (University of Califonria Press, 1999)
• “Leven, wonen en werken in onzekere tijden. Patronen van bevolking en arbeid in de lange 19de eeuw”, in: Bijdragen en Mededelingen over de Geschiedenis der Nederlanden, 2003, 2, pp. 153-178.
• With HANNES (J.), "Economische verandering en inkomensongelijkheid. De inkomensverdeling in de Oost-Vlaamse steden in de negentiende eeuw", Tijdschrijft voor Economische en Sociale Geschiedenis, 2007, 2, pp. 86-109.
• With Jan-Frederik Abbeloos, "Op zoek naar de wortels van de globale wereld: globalisering als historisch verhaal", Hermes. Tijdschrift van de Vlaamse Vereniging Leraren Geschiedenis, 13, september 2009, pp. 62-69.
• De schrikkelijke hongersnood is genadig afgewend. Waarom de Kempen in de jaren 1840 niet verhongerden, Taxandria Jaarboek 2010.
• Instellingen van armenzorg in de Antwerpse Kempen in de achttiende en negentiende eeuw. De transformatie van het platteland en de formalisering van de publieke zorg, in: Jaarboek Post Factum 4, 2012, Provinciale Commissie voor Geschiedenis en Volkskunde.
• With Céline Van Den Abeele,  Zo ongeveer als een zak met aardappelen een zak aardappelen vormt. Boeren in verzet, over boerenbewegingen vroeger en nu, Brood en Rozen, 2012, 2, pp. 5-27.
• Review of Karel Davids en Marjolein ’t Hart (red), met Lex Heerma Van Voss, Manon Van Der Heijden, Leo Lucassen, Jeroen Touwen,De wereld en Nederland. Een sociale en economische geschiedenis van de laatste duizend jaar(Boom, Amsterdam, 2011), Bijdragen en Mededelingen Geschiedenis der Nederlanden, 2012.
• Van Wereld-Systeem-Analyse naar Wereldgeschiedenis (en terug). Een intellectuele reisweg, in: Door denken en doen. Essays bij het werk van Ronald Commers, Gent, Academia Press, 2012.
• With Thijs Lambrecht, Frank Caestecker and Yves Segers, "Boeren, landbouw en de plattelandssamenleving ", in: België. Een geschiedenis van onderuit (EPO, 2012), pp. 39-75.

 English peer reviewed articles 

• "Processes of peripheralization in a core region. The Campine area of Antwerp in the 'long' 19th century", Review, XVI, 1, winter 1993, pp. 57-81  (Fernand Braudel Center, Binghamton, New York).
• "Agrarian labour and food production in a peripheral region. Agricultural dynamics in the Antwerp Campine in the 'long' nineteenth century", in: Histoire et Mesure, 1997, 1/2, pp. 143-164.
• "Labour markets and family strategies in Flanders, 1750-1990. A long-term perspective", Population and Family in the Low Countries 1996/1997. Selected current issues, The Hague - Brussels, NIDI - CBGS, 1997, pp. 171-190.
• "Between Patterns and Processes. Measuring Labor Markets and Family Strategies in Flanders, 1750-1990”, in: The History of the Family. An International Quaterly, 1997, 4, pp. 527-545.
• “Rich agriculture and poor farmers. Land, landlords and farmers in Flanders, 18th – 19th centuries”, Rural History. Economy. Society. Culture, 2001, 1, pp. 19-40.
• With DEVRIEZE (A.), "Working-class girls. The life-courses of 33 women cotton workers in Ghent around 1900", Belgisch Tijdschrift voor Nieuwste Geschiedenis - Revue belge d'histoire contemporaine, 2001, 3-4, pp. 557-578 (themanummer I. Devos en M. Neven (eds), Recent work in Belgian historical demography, 19th and early 20th centuries)
• "Structure and strategy. Two rural communities in the Kempen region of Belgium, 1850-1910", The History of the Family. An International Quaterly, 2004, 1, pp. 193-220.
• "The Belgium Historical GIS", Historical Geography, nr. 33, 2005, pp. 136-139.
• "The End of Peasantries? Rethinking the Role of Peasantries and Peasant Families in a World-Historical View", Review (Fernand Braudel Center), XXXI, 1, 2008, pp. 39-59.
• “Who is afraid of global history? Ambitions, pitfalls and limits of learning global history”, Österreichische Zeitschrift für  Geschichtswissenschaften, XX, 2009, 2, pp. 22-39.
• Review of Cormac Ó Gráda, Famine. A short History (Princeton University Press, 2009), Journal of Global History, 2010, nr 1.
• With Jan-Frederik Abbeloos, "Cutting the Gordian Knot of World History: Giovanni Arrighi’s model of The Great Divergence and Convergence", Journal of World-Systems Research, Volume XVII, Number 1, 2011, pp. 89-106.
• "From famine to food crisis. What history can teach us about local and global food crises",  Journal of Peasant Studies, Volume 38, Issue 1, 2011, pp. 47-65.
• With Thijs Lambrecht, "Famine, exchange networks and the village community. A comparative analysis of the subsistence crises of the 1740s and the 1840s in Flanders", in: Continuity and Change, vol 26, nr 2, 2011, pp. 155-186.
• With Erik Thoen, Pirenne and economic and social theory: influences, methods and reception, in: Belgisch Tijdschrift voor Nieuwste Geschiedenis -  Revue Belge d'Histoire Contemporaine, 2011, 3-4, pp. 323-353.
• "Peasants, peasantries and (de)peasantization in the capitalist world-system", in: Routledge Handbook of World-Systems Analysis, ed. C. Chase Dunn and S. Babones (Routledge), 2012, pp. 313-321.
• With Erwin Karel and Richard Paping, The Low Countries 1750-2000, in: Family, labour and income strategies in the North Sea area, 500-2000, edited by Eric vanhaute, Isabelle Devos, Thijs Lambrecht (2012).            Introduction and Conclusions.
• With Frank Caestecker,"Die Anwerbung von Arbeitskräften für Westeuropa und die europäische Arbeitsmarktintegration" in: Jochen Oltmer, Axel Kreienbrink, Carlos Sanz Dias (eds.), Das „Gastarbeiter“-System. Arbeitsmigration und ihre Folgen in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland und Westeuropa. München , Oldenburg (Schriftenreihe der Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte), 2012, pp.39-52.

Recent papers and articles

• "Migration. The Great Human Story" in: Red Star Line, 1873-1934, 2013.

• With Ophelia Ongena and Dirk Luyten, "De Vlaamse regionale economie op nieuwe sporen: instituties en beleid na de staatshervorming van 1980", 2014.

• "Into their labors. Peasant regimes of land and labor. Towards a comparative and global research agenda". Online Research Paper 2013, Harvard Weatherhead Initiative on Global History Conference, “A Global History of Agrarian Labor Regimes, 1750-2000”. (online publication)

• "Globalizing local struggles. Localizing global struggles. Peasant movements from local to global platforms and back", in: Workers of the World. International Journal on Strikes and Social Conflict, vol 1, nr 5, July 2014, pp. 114-129.

• With Hanne Cottyn and Wang Yang, "Peasantries", in: Immanuel Wallerstein, The World is Out of Joint. World-historical interpretations of continuing polarizations, Paradigm Publishers, 2014, pp. 55-68.

• "Historicizing Global Studies. About old and new frontiers of world-making", in: Potentials and Challenges of Global Studies for the 21ste Century, Global Europe. Basel Papers on Europe in a Global Perspective, No. 105, Institute for European Global Studies, Universität Basel, 2014, pp. 50-59.

• With Céline Van den Abeele, "Peasant movements in the Twentieth and Twenty-First centuries: from parochial reactions to global struggle?" in: S. Marung and M. Middell (eds), Transnational Actors, Crossing Borders. Transnational History Studies, Leipziger Universitätsverlag (Transnationalisierung und Regionalisierung vom 18. Jahrhundert bis zur Gegenwart, Band 8), 2015, pp. 17-33.
• "Escaping the Great Divergence? A discussion about and in response to Peer Vries’ Escaping Poverty. The Origins of Modern Economic Growth. An introduction", in: Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis, 2015, nr 2. Special issue: Escaping the Great Divergence? A discussion about and in response to Peer Vries’s Escaping Poverty. The Origins of Modern Economic Growth. Guest-editor Eric Vanhaute. Content Table.
• "Famine: Causes and Impact", in Routledge Handbook on Food and Nutrition Security, edited by Bill Pritchard, Rodomiro Ortiz, Meera Shekar, Routledge, 2016, pp. 227-239.

• Erika Vandergeten, Hossein Azadi, Dereje Teklemariam, Jan Nyssen, Frank Witlox, Eric Vanhaute, "Agricultural outsourcing or land grabbing: A meta-analysis", in: Landscape Ecology, September 2016, Volume 31, Issue 7, pp 1395–1417.

• With Hanne Cottyn, "Presentación", "Algunas perspectivas sobre las luchas sociales por la tierra", in Hanne Cottyn et al, Las luchas sociales por la tierra en América Latina : un análisis histórico, comparativo y global, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Peru, 2016.
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Forthcoming

• With Hanne Cottyn, Yang Wang, "Peasantries", forthcoming in Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, 2nd edition, 2016.

• With Hanne Cottyn, Yang Wang, "A World-systems frontier perspective to land: unravelling the uneven trajectory of land rights standardization", Journal of World-Systems Research, forthcoming.

• "Making Sense of the Great Divergence. The Limits and Challenges of World History", Comparativ. Zeitschrift für Globalgeschichte und vergleichende Gesellschaftsforschung, 2016.

• Daniel Curtis, Jessica Dijkman, Thijs Lambrecht, Eric Vanhaute, “Famines in the Northern and Southern Netherlands, fourteenth to nineteenth centuries”, in G. Alfani and C. Ó Gráda (eds.), Famine in Europe: A History, forthcoming (2016, CPU).

• "Global and Regional Comparisons. The Great Divergence Debate and Europe", in M. Middell (ed.),"The Practice of Global History. European Perspectives", Bloomsbury Academic.
• With Wouter Ronsijn, ""The first food price crisis: causes and effects of the 1850s dearth crisis in Belgium"
• Julie Carlier, Chris Parker, Eric Vanhaute (eds), "De hermaakbare wereld? Essays over globalisering", Academia Press, 2016.

 

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

  

      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

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

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New Book Series!

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

• Volume "Social Relations. Property and Power". Chapter: The Low Countries, 1750-2000, by Paul Brusse, Anton Schuurman, Leen Van Molle and Eric Vanhaute

• 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)

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