Rural communities books

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Challenges for Rural America in the Twenty-First Century

Challenges for Rural America in the Twenty-First Century...

Author: David L. Brown (Cornell University) ,  Louis E. Swanson (Colorado State University)
ISBN: 9780271022413
Format: Hardback
$234.83

The 20th century was one of profound transformation in rural America, when demographic shifts and economic restructuring...  Read More >>

Taking Stands: Gender and the Sustainability of Rural Communities

Taking Stands: Gender and the Sustainability of Rural...

Author: Maureen G. Reed
ISBN: 9780774810180
Format: Paperback
$100.19

Goes beyond the dichotomies of ""pro"" and ""anti"" environmentalism to tell the stories of the women who seek to...  Read More >>

Who Owns the Past?: The Politics of Time in a 'Model' Bulgarian Village

Who Owns the Past?: The Politics of Time in a 'Model'...

Author: Deema Kaneff
ISBN: 9781571815347
Format: Hardback
$356.40

In the decades since the collapse of socialism in eastern Europe, time has been a central resource under negotiation....  Read More >>

The Socio-economic Dynamics of Rural Areas in Germany,Greece,Scotland and Sweden

The Socio-economic Dynamics of Rural Areas in Germany,Greece,Scotland...

Author: John Brydon ,  Keith Hart
ISBN: 9780773465152
Format: Hardback
$258.62

List of Figures; List of Tables; Editors' note; Contributors; Foreword, Acknowledgements; 1. The DORA Project; 2....  Read More >>

Rural Poverty, Risk and Development

Rural Poverty, Risk and Development

Author: Marcel Fafchamps
ISBN: 9781843764366
Format: Hardback
$277.50

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African American Miners and Migrants

African American Miners and Migrants

Author: Thomas E Wagner, PH.D. ,  Philip J Obermiller
ISBN: 9786613921604
Format: Electronic book text
$66.53

Thomas E. Wagner and Phillip J. Obermiller's African American Miners and Migrants documents the lives of Eastern...  Read More >>

The Face of Appalachia: Portraits from the Mountain Farm

The Face of Appalachia: Portraits from the Mountain...

Author: Tim Barnwell
ISBN: 9780393057874
Format: Hardback
$79.07

A world we have lost, in beautiful photographs and moving words.  Read More >>

Walking Towards Justice: Democratization in Rural Life

Walking Towards Justice: Democratization in Rural Life...

Author: M. Bell ,  Fred T. Hendricks
ISBN: 9780762309542
Format: Hardback
$284.95

This volume brings together some of the recent work of rural sociologists...  Read More >>

Communities of Work: Rural Restructuring in Local and Global Contexts

Communities of Work: Rural Restructuring in Local and...

Author: William W. Falk ,  Michael D. Schulman
ISBN: 9780896802346
Format: Paperback
$56.95

This text focuses on the ways in which rural people and places are affected by political, social and economic forces...  Read More >>

China Along the Yellow River

China Along the Yellow River

Author: Cao Jinqing (East China University of Science and Technology, China)
ISBN: 9781280225338
Format: Electronic book text
$469.92

This text had a major impact in its original Chinese version. Reviewed in the Far East Economic Review as 'one of...  Read More >>

Class Reunion: The Remaking of the American White Working Class

Class Reunion: The Remaking of the American White Working...

Author: Weis Lois
ISBN: 9781280171178
Format: Electronic book text
$409.20

Lois Weis first visited the town of 'Freeway' in her 1990 book, W orking Class Without Work: High School Students...  Read More >>

Lowland Lairds

Lowland Lairds

Author: James Fergusson
ISBN: 9780902664791
Format: Paperback
$66.00

Sir James Fergusson of Kilkerran Bt (1904-1973), for twenty years Keeper of the Records of Scotland, was a distinguished...  Read More >>

The Vanishing Hectare: Property and Value in Postsocialist Transylvania

The Vanishing Hectare: Property and Value in Postsocialist...

Author: Katherine Verdery
ISBN: 9780801488696
Format: Paperback
$79.25

In most countries in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, the fall of communism opened up the possibility...  Read More >>

The Vanishing Hectare: Property and Value in Postsocialist Transylvania

The Vanishing Hectare: Property and Value in Postsocialist...

Author: Katherine Verdery ,  Lowell Turner
ISBN: 9780801441974
Format: Hardback
$209.88

In most countries in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, the fall of communism opened up the possibility...  Read More >>

African American Miners and Migrants

African American Miners and Migrants

Author: Thomas E Wagner, PH.D. ,  Philip J Obermiller
ISBN: 9781283609159
Format: Electronic book text
$55.44

Thomas E. Wagner and Phillip J. Obermiller's African American Miners and Migrants documents the lives of Eastern...  Read More >>

High Mountains Rising

High Mountains Rising

Author: Richard A Straw ,  H Tyler Blethen
ISBN: 9781283583503
Format: Electronic book text
$55.44

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Rural Life and Culture in the Upper Cumberland

Rural Life and Culture in the Upper Cumberland

Author: Michael E Birdwell ,  W Calvin Dickinson
ISBN: 9781283232937
Format: Electronic book text
$79.20

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Soviet Power and the Countryside: Policy Innovation and Institutional Decay

Soviet Power and the Countryside: Policy Innovation...

Author: N. Melvin
ISBN: 9780333692523
Format: Hardback
$116.41

Drawing upon extensive archival and other original sources, Soviet Power and the Countryside offers a new approach...  Read More >>

Changing Places: Enviroment Development, and Social Change in Rural Honduras

Changing Places: Enviroment Development, and Social...

Author: William M Loker
ISBN: 9780890895160
Format: Hardback
$73.92

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Converging Worlds: Religion and Community in Peasant Russia, 1861–1917

Converging Worlds: Religion and Community in Peasant...

Author: Chris Chulos
ISBN: 9780875803173
Format: Hardback
$101.25

This work describes the interplay between peasant religious life and the broader social and cultural transformation...  Read More >>

Folklife Along the Big South Fork: Of the Cumberland River

Folklife Along the Big South Fork: Of the Cumberland...

Author: Benita J. Howell
ISBN: 9781572332317
Format: Paperback
$79.07

Folklife along the Big South Fork of the Cumberland River  records the history, lore, and lifeways of people who...  Read More >>

Villa to Village: The Transformation of the Roman Countryside

Villa to Village: The Transformation of the Roman Countryside...

Author: Riccardo Francovich ,  Richard Hodges
ISBN: 9780715631928
Format: Paperback
$71.28

""Villa to Village"" challenges the historical view that hilltop villages in Italy were first founded in the tenth...  Read More >>

Empowering the Rural Poor Through HRD: Six Innovative Approaches Submitted for the 2001 ESCAP HRD Award

Empowering the Rural Poor Through HRD: Six Innovative...

Author: United Nations: Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific
ISBN: 9789211201352
Format: Paperback
$38.95

The Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) has awarded the ESCAP Human Resources Development...  Read More >>

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