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 >>

Developing coalfields communities: Breathing new life into Warsop Vale

Developing coalfields communities: Breathing new life...
Author: David Waddington (School of Cultural Studies, Sheffield Hallam University) ISBN: 9781861345530 Format: Paperback	$41.95
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New Forms of Urbanization: Beyond the Urban-Rural Dichotomy

New Forms of Urbanization: Beyond the Urban-Rural Dichotomy...
Author: Graeme Hugo , Tony Champion ISBN: 9780754635888 Format: Hardback	$284.00
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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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