Rural communities books

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Agricultura en Nicaragua: Promoviendo la Competitivad y Estimulando el Crecimiento de Base Amplia

Agricultura en Nicaragua: Promoviendo la Competitivad...

Author: World Bank Group
ISBN: 9780821354551
Format: Paperback
$39.60

El crecimiento de base amplia es uno de los cuatro pilares de la 'Estrategia Reforzada para la Reducción de la Pobreza'...  Read More >>

General View of the Agriculture of the County of Ayr

General View of the Agriculture of the County of Ayr...

Author: William Aiton
ISBN: 9780902664418
Format: Paperback
$77.63

Originally published in 1814. The Index reveals that Aiton ranged far and wide over the affairs of the people of...  Read More >>

General View of the Agriculture of the County of Ayr

General View of the Agriculture of the County of Ayr...

Author: William Aiton
ISBN: 9780902664401
Format: Paperback
$77.63

Originally published in 1814. The Index reveals that Aiton ranged far and wide over the affairs of the people of...  Read More >>

Prairie Town: Redefining Rural Life in the Age of Globalization

Prairie Town: Redefining Rural Life in the Age of Globalization...

Author: Jacqueline Edmondson
ISBN: 9780742519428
Format: Paperback
$79.99

A description of the contemporary rural condition and efforts to sustain rural life in one small Minnesota community...  Read More >>

Confederacy of Silence: A True Tale of the New Old South

Confederacy of Silence: A True Tale of the New Old South...

Author: Richard Rubin
ISBN: 9780671036676
Format: Paperback
$29.99

Synopsis coming soon.......  Read More >>

The Death of Rural England: A Social History of the Countryside Since 1900

The Death of Rural England: A Social History of the...

Author: Alun Howkins (University of Sussex, UK)
ISBN: 9780415138857
Format: Paperback
$83.99

Alun Howkins's thorough survey is a social history of rural England and Wales in the 20th century. He examines...  Read More >>

Agrarian Change, Gender and Land Rights

Agrarian Change, Gender and Land Rights

Author: Shahra Razavi
ISBN: 9781405110761
Format: Paperback
$105.47

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Peoples' Spaces and State Spaces: Land and Governance in Mozambique

Peoples' Spaces and State Spaces: Land and Governance...

Author: Rosemary Elizabeth Galli
ISBN: 9780739106327
Format: Hardback
$258.72

Based on the detailed examination of the history of four Mozambican rural communities and on the experience of nine...  Read More >>

Family and Farm in Pre-famine Ireland: The Parish of Killashandra

Family and Farm in Pre-famine Ireland: The Parish of...

Author: Kevin O'Neill
ISBN: 9780299098445
Format: Paperback
$40.70

This study of rural Ireland in the 1840s explicates the social, economic and demographic conditions of the era....  Read More >>

Taking Stands: Gender and the Sustainability of Rural Communities

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

Author: Maureen G. Reed
ISBN: 9780774810173
Format: Hardback
$277.20

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

Sociology in Government: The Galpin-Taylor Years in the U.S. Department of Agriculture, 1919–1953

Sociology in Government: The Galpin-Taylor Years in...

Author: Olaf F. Larson (Professor of Rural Sociology, Emeritus, Cornell, Emeritus) ,  Julie N. Zimmerman (Associate Professor, Rural Sociology, University of Kentucky)
ISBN: 9780271022987
Format: Hardback
$147.71

From 1919 through 1953, the U.S. Department of Agriculture housed the Division of Farm Population and Rural Life...  Read More >>

The American Midwest: Managing Change in Rural Transition

The American Midwest: Managing Change in Rural Transition...

Author: Norman Walzer
ISBN: 9780765611222
Format: Paperback
$96.99

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The American Midwest: Managing Change in Rural Transition

The American Midwest: Managing Change in Rural Transition...

Author: Norman Walzer
ISBN: 9780765611215
Format: Hardback
$378.00

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Rural Development: Principles and Practice

Rural Development: Principles and Practice

Author: Malcolm Moseley
ISBN: 9780761947677
Format: Paperback
$126.59

Advocating the fundamental need for an innovative and holistic approach to rural development, this book demonstrates...  Read More >>

Rural Development: Principles and Practice

Rural Development: Principles and Practice

Author: Malcolm Moseley
ISBN: 9780761947660
Format: Hardback
$477.00

Advocating the fundamental need for an innovative and holistic approach to rural development, this book demonstrates...  Read More >>

Private Life Under Socialism: Love, Intimacy, and Family Change in a Chinese Village, 1949-1999

Private Life Under Socialism: Love, Intimacy, and Family...

Author: Yunxiang Yan
ISBN: 9780804744560
Format: Paperback
$41.95

For seven years in the 1970s, the author lived in a village in northeast China as a farmer. In 1989 he returned...  Read More >>

Private Life Under Socialism: Love, Intimacy, and Family Change in a Chinese Village, 1949-1999

Private Life Under Socialism: Love, Intimacy, and Family...

Author: Yunxiang Yan
ISBN: 9780804733090
Format: Hardback
$95.99

For seven years in the 1970s, the author lived in a village in northeast China as a farmer. In 1989 he returned...  Read More >>

The Struggle for Land in Southern Somalia: The War behind the War

The Struggle for Land in Southern Somalia: The War behind...

Author: Catherine Besteman ,  Lee V. Cassanelli
ISBN: 9781874209447
Format: Hardback
$105.47

This work examines issues of land and resources as key ingredients in the politics of modern day Somalia, and adds...  Read More >>

Ancient Roots, New Shoots: Endogenous Development in Practice

Ancient Roots, New Shoots: Endogenous Development in...

Author: Katrien van 't Hooft ,  Bertus Haverkort
ISBN: 9781842773345
Format: Hardback
$277.07

This collection of general reflections and practical experiences illustrates the inappropriateness of a Western...  Read More >>

Selected Issues in Agricultural Policy Analysis with Special Reference to East Africa

Selected Issues in Agricultural Policy Analysis with...

Author: Tony Akaki
ISBN: 9780595262489
Format: Paperback
$31.55

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Financing China's Rural Enterprises

Financing China's Rural Enterprises

Author: Jun Li
ISBN: 9780824827441
Format: Hardback
$150.48

Rural enterprises have played an important role in the extraordinary success of China's economy over the last two...  Read More >>

Cultivating Coffee: The Farmers of Carazo, Nicaragua, 1880–1930

Cultivating Coffee: The Farmers of Carazo, Nicaragua,...

Author: Julie A. Charlip
ISBN: 9780896802278
Format: Paperback
$47.95

This study questions the idea that the introduction of coffee to Latin America forced most people to become landless...  Read More >>

Organizing Rural Women: The Federated Women's Institutes of Ontario, 1897-1919

Organizing Rural Women: The Federated Women's Institutes...

Author: Margaret C. Kechnie ,  Margaret C. Kechnie
ISBN: 9780773524606
Format: Hardback
$250.80

Looks at the history of the Federated Women's Institutes of Ontario, popularly known as the Women's Institutes (WI),...  Read More >>

Farmers and Village Life in Japan

Farmers and Village Life in Japan

Author: Ann Waswo ,  Yoshiaki Nishida
ISBN: 9780700717484
Format: Hardback
$305.00

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