Rural communities books

How humans think and feel about their work handling food animals  Read More >>

Asking us to look beyond the cities on the coasts, this title draws a different map, tracking how rural queers have...  Read More >>

Winner of the James Beard Cookbook of the Year Award  Read More >>

Asking us to look beyond the cities on the coasts, this title draws a different map, tracking how rural queers have...  Read More >>

In 1861, Louisiana settler William S. Pike established an incredible five-hundred-acre plantation seven miles from...  Read More >>

So, how do Americans in a small town make community today? This book argues that there is more than one answer,...  Read More >>

So, how do Americans in a small town make community today? This book argues that there is more than one answer,...  Read More >>

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In 1861, Louisiana settler William S. Pike established an incredible five-hundred-acre plantation seven miles from...  Read More >>

Comprehensive yet introductory survey text appropriate for undergraduate students who need historical context, theoretical...  Read More >>

Just a few miles beyond the bright lights of the Las Vegas Strip and the surrounding suburbs, a quiet village vigorously...  Read More >>

Originally published: New York: Spiegel & Grau, c2010.  Read More >>

Tanzania has come across traditional forms of cooperation, which have survived the impact of colonialism and the...  Read More >>

""Methland"" tells the story of Oelwein, Iowa, which, like thousands of other small towns across the country, has...  Read More >>

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Land tenure in pastoral and agro pastoral areas of Tanzania is under stress. The stress emanates mainly from changing...  Read More >>

English traces the development of adult education programs of the College in the Country program. It began in 1949,...  Read More >>

Cultural DNA builds on developments within indigenous Caribbean feminisms and gender studies as well as feminist...  Read More >>

Intends to significantly extend previous research work on the rural impacts of national welfare reform and position...  Read More >>

Develops a diversified rural economy, as well as the bottom-up approach and local focus of many rural policies,...  Read More >>

The service sector, in aggregate, now dominates total employment and value-added in OECD countries, accounting for...  Read More >>

This book describes the ritual world of a group of rural settlements in Shanxi province in pre-1949 North China....  Read More >>

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This timely and important collection of original essays analyzes China’s foremost social cleavage: the rural–urban...  Read More >>