La historia agraria en la historiografía alemana contemporánea

The present article focuses on the role of the contemporary agrarian history in the German historiography. First it is studied the wide tradition that was previous to the New Agrarian History - Neue Agrargeschichte -. The new frame opened by the Neue Sozialgeschichte, some accumulated knowledge of the previous tradition as well as the approaches from the regional history of the 1980s and the modern ethnology were the basis to build the new works from the 1990s. The new history trends as the AJJtagsgeschichte or the Neue Kulturgeschichte have also reported new researches into the agrarian society as well as the microhistory. The new studies of agrarian history from the nineties have incorporated the German agrarian history to the discussions of other European countries. In relation to the agrarian reforms of the 19th century, the new subjects of the research: the regional diversity, the rupture with the "Prussian road" and the study of the plural actors were included in this transformation. The environmental history, the research into the agro-alimentary company, studies on the family, the social protest or the role of the women in the agrarian society are some of the most recent contributions. The analysis of the new forms of communication in the rural societies Like the process of introduction of the writing and reading as well as the mass media are important issues too. The study of the process of - Entagrarisierung – in 19th century and the collectivization in the FRG are also new interesting contributions of this new agrarian history.