Rural communities books

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Well-known blogger and newspaper columnist, Dorcas Smucker, writes with disarming clarity about life on and off...  Read More >>

With more than 700 million residents living in rural areas, China is still a predominantly rural country. But despite...  Read More >>

The first in-depth study of Roman water rights in Italy  Read More >>

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Eyferth charts the vicissitudes of a rural community of papermakers in Sichuan, tracing the changes in the distribution...  Read More >>

Presents a strategic policy framework to governments in the Western Balkans and the international donor community...  Read More >>

The radical transformation that Spanish rural areas have experienced in the past few decades suggest, as it has...  Read More >>

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

This book critically analyzes key concepts associated with rural development policy and practice. Using the notion...  Read More >>

OECD's comprehensive review of rural policy in Italy. On average, rural regions in Italy have some of the highest...  Read More >>

There is a growing appreciation of the natural functions of wetlands, as well as the values and different forms...  Read More >>

Coming of Age in Times of Crisis is an anthropological study of the intersecting roles of gender and schooling in...  Read More >>

Spans fifty years of farm life to show that women saw farming as an opportunity to be full partners with their husbands...  Read More >>

This book investigates child domestic servitude in Ghana, showing the process of the children's recruitment into...  Read More >>

A key, intensifying change affecting rural areas in the last few decades has been a decline in the proportion of...  Read More >>

Vietnam is a land whose features change dramatically within short distances--from mountains and high plateaus to...  Read More >>

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Focuses on the Old Order Amish Mennonites, Iowa's most distinctive religious minority. This title explores the origin...  Read More >>

Explore astonishing developments of a China village which is center of China's export industry, where more than...  Read More >>

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With his tape recorder, Richard Negri captured the life stories of seven men and three women who lived by herding...  Read More >>

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