Rural communities books

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Agrarian Crisis: Farmers Suicides in Warangal District

Agrarian Crisis: Farmers Suicides in Warangal District...

Author: Emmadi Naveen Kumar
ISBN: 9781299644687
Format: Electronic book text
$190.50

India is among the fastest developing countries of the world. However, a major percentage of its population (60...  Read More >>

Welfare Reform in Persistent Rural Poverty: Dreams, Disenchantments, and Diversity

Welfare Reform in Persistent Rural Poverty: Dreams,...

Author: Kathleen Pickering (Colorado State University) ,  Mark H. Harvey
ISBN: 9780271028781
Format: Paperback
$67.99

Welfare Reform in Persistent Rural Poverty examines welfare participants who live in chronically poor rural areas...  Read More >>

Target 3 Billion: Pura

Target 3 Billion: Pura

Author: APJ Abdul Kalam ,  Srijan Pal Singh
ISBN: 9780143417309
Format: Paperback
$34.10

With 750 million people living in villages, India has the largest rural population in the world. Based on his Indian...  Read More >>

Rethinking Agricultural Policy Regimes: Food Security, Climate Change and the Future Resilience of Global Agriculture

Rethinking Agricultural Policy Regimes: Food Security,...

Author: Reider Alms
ISBN: 9786613524348
Format: Electronic book text
$364.16

For many decades debates about the future of developed world agriculture policy have been dominated by a long political...  Read More >>

Social Development (Routledge Revivals): Its Nature and Conditions

Social Development (Routledge Revivals): Its Nature...

Author: L T Hobhouse (London School of Economics, UK)
ISBN: 9781283607216
Format: Electronic book text
$369.60

Originally published in 1924, Professor Hobhouse's theories and commentaries upon social development are an important...  Read More >>

New Lithuania in Old Hands: Effects and Outcomes of Europeanization in Rural Lithuania

New Lithuania in Old Hands: Effects and Outcomes of...

Author: Ida Harboe Knudsen
ISBN: 9781280385001
Format: Electronic book text
$261.36

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Condos in the Woods

Condos in the Woods

Author: Rebecca L Schewe ,  Donald R Field
ISBN: 9781280128349
Format: Electronic book text
$65.87

Scenic rural communities across the nation and around the world have been transformed as they have shifted away...  Read More >>

New Peasantries, The: Struggles for Autonomy and Sustainability in an Era of Empire and Globalization

New Peasantries, The: Struggles for Autonomy and Sustainability...

Author: Jan Douwe Van Der Ploeg
ISBN: 9781281752857
Format: Electronic book text
$396.00

'Jan Douwe van der Ploeg combines long engagement in the empirical study of farming and farmers, and of alternative...  Read More >>

Organizing Rural China Rural China Organizing

Organizing Rural China Rural China Organizing

Author: Professor Jonathan Unger ,  Unn M Rolandsen
ISBN: 9781280666537
Format: Electronic book text
$224.37

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NASCAR Sprint Cup

NASCAR Sprint Cup

Author: Jennifer Howse ,  Jennifer Howse
ISBN: 9781306125208
Format: Electronic book text
$75.37

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The Medieval Village

The Medieval Village

Author: Professor G G Coulton
ISBN: 9781306368568
Format: Undefined
$52.67

Exceptionally well-documented vivid study of serfdom, manorial customs, abbeys, village discipline, peasant revolts,...  Read More >>

Nothing to Tell

Nothing to Tell

Author: Donna Gray
ISBN: 9781322163970
Format: Electronic book text
$47.49

Sitting at the kitchen tables of twelve women in their eighties who were born in or immigrated to Montana in the...  Read More >>

A Social History of the English Countryside

A Social History of the English Countryside

Author: G. E. Mingay
ISBN: 9780415513210
Format: Paperback
$96.99

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Lost Plantation: The Rise and Fall of Seven Oaks

Lost Plantation: The Rise and Fall of Seven Oaks

Author: Marc R Matrana
ISBN: 9786613434586
Format: Electronic book text
$79.20

<p>Along the fertile banks of the Mississippi River across from New Orleans, planter Camille Zeringue transformed...  Read More >>

Medieval Rural Settlement: Britain and Ireland, AD 800-1600

Medieval Rural Settlement: Britain and Ireland, AD 800-1600...

Author: Neil Christie ,  Paul Stamper
ISBN: 9781905119424
Format: Hardback
$132.00

Medieval Rural Settlement: Britain and Ireland, AD 800-1600 is a major assessment and review of the origins, forms...  Read More >>

Distress Migration and 'Left Behind' Women: A Study of Rural Bihar

Distress Migration and 'Left Behind' Women: A Study...

Author: Archana K. Roy
ISBN: 9788131604373
Format: Hardback
$105.60

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Rural Wales in the Twenty-First Century: Society, Economy and Environment

Rural Wales in the Twenty-First Century: Society, Economy...

Author: Paul Milbourne
ISBN: 9780708324349
Format: Paperback
$34.99

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'Race', Culture and the Right to the City: Centres, Peripheries, Margins

'Race', Culture and the Right to the City: Centres,...

Author: Gareth Millington
ISBN: 9780230202702
Format: Hardback
$145.17

Adopting a perspective inspired by Henri Lefebvre, this book considers the spread of multiculture from the central...  Read More >>

Seasonality, Rural Livelihoods and Development

Seasonality, Rural Livelihoods and Development

Author: Stephen Devereux ,  Rachel Sabates-Wheeler
ISBN: 9781136494406
Format: Electronic book text
$68.85

Seasonality is a severe constraint to sustainable rural livelihoods, and a driver of poverty and hunger, particularly...  Read More >>

International Handbook of Rural Demography

International Handbook of Rural Demography

Author: László J. Kulcsár ,  Katherine J. Curtis
ISBN: 9789400718418
Format: Hardback
$789.36

This essential Springer handbook is one of a series that explore the nexus between demography and social science....  Read More >>

Translocal Ruralism: Mobility and Connectivity in European Rural Spaces

Translocal Ruralism: Mobility and Connectivity in European...

Author: Charlotta Hedberg ,  Renato Miguel do Carmo
ISBN: 9789400723146
Format: Hardback
$366.96

Rural areas are often viewed as isolated and stagnating areas and urban areas as their opposites. This book corrects...  Read More >>

Revisiting Rural Places: Pathways to Poverty and Prosperity in Southeast Asia

Revisiting Rural Places: Pathways to Poverty and Prosperity...

Author: Jonathan Rigg ,  Peter Vandergeest
ISBN: 9780824836207
Format: Paperback
$89.76

""First published in Asia by NUS Press, National University of Singapore.""  Read More >>

Tobacco Capitalism: Growers, Migrant Workers, and the Changing Face of a Global Industry

Tobacco Capitalism: Growers, Migrant Workers, and the...

Author: Peter Benson ,  Allan M Brandt
ISBN: 9786613280695
Format: Electronic book text
$396.00

Tells the story of the people who live and work on US tobacco farms at a time when the global tobacco industry is...  Read More >>

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