OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Rural History-Economy Society Culture is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
RUH volume 34 issue 1 Cover and Back matter	5
Gender, work, and family economies: wet nurses in rural Galicia (1850–1900)	5
‘Aspire, persevere and indulge not’: new wealth and gentry society in Wales, c. 1760–1840	3
Cattle rights versus human rights: herdsmen–farmer clashes in Nigeria	3
The Inarticulate Few: Agrarian voices during the modernisation of agriculture in Leicestershire 1935–1955	2
The kitchen’s grip: Energy, cooking, and gendered work in rural France (1860–1960)	2
The legacy of history: women and the ownership of land in Ireland	2
Conscription, rural populations and the dynamics of war and revolution in Ireland (1914–18)	1
Women and estate management in the early eighteenth century: Barbara Savile at Rufford Abbey, Nottinghamshire (1700–34)	1
‘K is for Keeper’: the roles and representations of the English gamekeeper, c. 1880–1914	1
The distribution and numbers of gamekeepers in Norfolk: 1851 to 1921	1
Prospering despite the adverse terms of emancipation? Accumulation of wealth by peasant farmers in the tsarist Russian province of Livonia, 1853–1913	1
How hiking reinvented rural areas: social transformation and leisure activities in Brittany during the 1970s	1
Bush-lost children’s place in new ‘moral communities’: the emergence of a cultural rite in colonial Victoria (and across Australia), 1850s–1890s	1
‘Scotland’s fighting fields’: the mobilisation of workers in rural Scotland during the Second World War	1
Rural social engineering: reordering the countryside in decolonising India and Malaysia (1947–60)	1
Cottages for farm labouring families: plans, exhortations and realities (1825–50)	1
Temperance lives and landscape: Lady Elizabeth Biddulph, Lady Henry Somerset, and late nineteenth-century Ledbury	1
RUH volume 33 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	1
More industrious and less austere than expected: evidence from inventories of agricultural workers in north-eastern Catalonia (1725–1807)	1
Current trends and future directions in the rural history of later medieval England (c. 1200–c. 1500)	1
How farmers adopt new technologies: connections between farmer and technician knowledges in Galicia (NW Iberian Peninsula) (1880–1940)	1
Horse-related title taking and animal cruelty in colonial eastern Nigeria: re-examining the economic rationale behind the introduction of humane killers	0
The persistent workforce: female day labour on capitalist farms in eighteenth-century Flanders	0
Public education and professionalisation of Italian Agriculture (1861–1914)	0

Cattle breeding, associations, and rural development: The Italian case study in the 20th century	0
Subjects’ strategies against lordship in Burgundian and Habsburg Flanders	0
Changes in food consumption from an agricultural-based economy to industrialisation: Uruguay (1900–70)	0
Agrarian development and state building in Spain: the contest for irrigation in the Valencian Region, 1770–1860	0
‘In constant fear of some dire epidemic breaking out’: Rural responses to infectious and epidemic disease, 1870–1920	0
‘Success to the Shropshire Chamber of Agriculture’: a reappraisal of the role of chambers of agriculture in Britain during the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries	0
‘Par mesure de prudence’. Flood prevention and river regulation in Demer-Dijle confluence area (NE Belgium), 1840s–1880s	0
RUH volume 35 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	0
The role of quality in the grain market: wheat prices formation in eighteenth-century Northern Italy	0
Exploring changes in gamekeeper numbers in England (1851–1921)	0
Rural electrification in Spain: territorial expansion and effects on the agricultural sector (c. 1900–c. 2000)	0
Commons land management in Southern, post-unification Italy: New evidence from a micro analysis on Salerno province	0
The peasant and the nation plot: a distant reading of the Romanian rural novel from the first half of the twentieth century	0
Productive practices in Andean rural areas and their relationship to extractive markets (Atacama Desert, northern Chile, 1915–2019)	0
The evolving economic importance of Polish forests between 1918 and 1945	0
The ‘pheasant of the future’: Encountering and imagining Reeves’ pheasant in Britain, 1831 – 1913	0
Wealth, work, and industriousness, 1670–1860: evidence from rural Swedish probates	0
Traces of disappearing heritage: upcycling of wooden vessels preserved in the vernacular architecture of a large river valley in Central Europe	0
Industry, literature, and sociability: The effects of industrialisation of Asturian parishes according to Armando Palacio Valdés	0
RUH volume 33 issue 2 Cover and Back matter	0
RUH volume 34 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	0
Early Australian rabbit-proof fences: paling, slab and stub fences, modified dry stone walls, and wire netting	0
Manufacturing in Puritan rural towns in New England 1630–60: ‘A Miller Never Goes to Heaven’	0
The Islamic countryside and food supplies to the Levantine crusader cities in the first half of the twelfth century	0
Past and present land reform in Cuba (1959–2020): from peasant collectivisation to re-peasantisation and beyond	0
The survival of three large agricultural estates on the north Hampshire-south Berkshire border during the interwar period	0
Two hundred barrels of manure: Fertilisation, environmental stewardship, and short-term leasehold in Cambrésis, 1330–1400	0
RUH volume 34 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	0
Famines in the manorial economy of eighteenth-century Poland	0
Licit or Illicit? Encroachments on ‘the Lord’s Waste’ in North-east Scotland, c.1400 – c.1800	0
State intervention to bridge the gap: The modernisation of rural Southern Italy (1950–1962)	0
Unions and agricultural protests in inland Spain during the Transition: the example of Burgos province (1975–80)	0
The archaeology of peasant protagonism: new directions in the early medieval Iberian countryside	0
‘Co-ordinated Under one Machine’: International and faith-based rural development, 1950s–1980s	0
RUH volume 32 issue 2 Cover and Back matter	0
RUH volume 34 issue 2 Cover and Back matter	0
Life and death under son preference: Economic stress, fertility, and early-life mortality in rural Spain, 1800–1910	0
From grassland to forest: the puzzle of land tenure and forest conservation in Costa Rica (1962–2014)	0
Counsellor Knockolds and Captain Swing: Negotiating urban-rural boundaries in early nineteenth-century East Anglia	0
RUH volume 33 issue 1 Cover and Back matter	0
Household budget management and women’s position in peasant families in the Polish lands in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries	0
Turnip hoeing matches in Aberdeenshire, 1840–1940: Material practice and cultural impact	0
Tradition counts. The boom in the Spanish broiler chicken and pork sectors, 1955–2020	0
RUH volume 32 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	0
Classrooms of democracy: cultivating change and social cohesion through rural community centres in postwar Hesse	0
Away but connected: from the mountains of Babia to the plains of Cáceres. A study of Spanish transhumance at the turn of the nineteenth to the twentieth centuries	0
The language of space and ownership in rural New South Wales in the mid-nineteenth-century: rural workers	0
Unravelling the nutritional transition in Spain: From meat shortages to excess (1958–1990)	0
From rural reconstruction to agricultural engineering: a study of the cooperation between the Chinese Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry and the International Harvester Company (1945–8)	0
Land reform in People’s Poland (1944–89)	0

Rural poverty in Poland between the wars	0
The UK landscape evaluation movement (1965–85)	0
Migration and decentralised industrialisation: the development of rural migration in northern Sweden (1850–1950)	0
Pre-industrial ‘charity land’ and the dynamics of rural poverty in south-west England, 1656–1739: a case study	0
‘A little knowledge is a dangerous thing’: Rural realities, professional ideals, and the forgotten history of cottage nursing c. 1880–1939	0
‘We can only grow grass here’: Unsettling the traditionality of grassland narrative	0
A Rebato: Popular uprisings and the striking of the bells in eighteenth-century Castile	0
Japan’s rural electrification before the mid-1930s: Private-owned utility, local community, and policy	0
RUH volume 33 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	0
Which rural settlements have lost the most population? An analysis of a case study of north-east Spain (Aragón) (1900–2001)	0
The Sandringham Estate: the Prince of Wales’s 1862 purchase and implications for local people, wildlife and landscape	0
Clothing the New Poor Law workhouse in the nineteenth century	0
RUH volume 35 issue 1 Cover and Back matter	0
Conservation and ‘the poor unfortunate foresters’: the regulation of the Ashdown Forest, Sussex 1870–1890	0
Negotiating the representations of the village in socialist Czechoslovakia	0
Future directions in rural history: Ireland, the First World War and the search for historical evidence	0
Manufacturing agricultural working knowledge: the scientific study of agricultural work in industrial Europe, 1920s–60s	0
Agrarian measures in the kingdom of Granada before and after the Castilian conquest: the lands of the Alpujarra	0