Rural communities books

4164 books were found.

A History of British Socialism (1919)

A History of British Socialism (1919)

Author: M. Beer
ISBN: 9780415265676
Format: Mixed media product
$221.00

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The Countryside in the Age of the Modern State: Political Histories of Rural America

The Countryside in the Age of the Modern State: Political...

Author: Catherine McNicol Stock ,  Robert D. Johnston
ISBN: 9780801487712
Format: Paperback
$86.99

This book moves rural history into explorations of modern politics: diverse rural peoples and their complex relationships...  Read More >>

The Countryside in the Age of the Modern State: Political Histories of Rural America

The Countryside in the Age of the Modern State: Political...

Author: Catherine McNicol Stock ,  Robert D. Johnston
ISBN: 9780801438509
Format: Hardback
$191.40

This book moves rural history into explorations of modern politics: diverse rural peoples and their complex relationships...  Read More >>

Sustainable Livelihoods: Building on the Wealth of the Poor

Sustainable Livelihoods: Building on the Wealth of the...

Author: Kristin Helmore ,  Naresh Singh
ISBN: 9781565491328
Format: Paperback
$27.95

"This work presents an approach to poverty eradication that places the priorities of the poor at the helm of development...  Read More >>

Agrarian Studies: Synthetic Work at the Cutting Edge

Agrarian Studies: Synthetic Work at the Cutting Edge...

Author: Nina Bhatt ,  James C. Scott
ISBN: 9780300085020
Format: Paperback
$57.95

A fresh interdisciplinary analysis of rural society and agrarian issues  Read More >>

Losing Place: Refugee Populations and Rural Transformations in East Africa

Losing Place: Refugee Populations and Rural Transformations...

Author: Johnathan Bascom
ISBN: 9781571818300
Format: Paperback
$59.40

Refugee flight, settlement, and repatriation are not static, self-contained, or singular events. Instead, they are...  Read More >>

Directions of Change in Rural Egypt

Directions of Change in Rural Egypt

Author: Nicholas S. Hopkins ,  Kirsten Westergaard
ISBN: 9789774246630
Format: Paperback
$64.68

This volume, based on field-work by distinguished specialists, includes information on the changing economic situation...  Read More >>

Community and Society in Roman Italy

Community and Society in Roman Italy

Author: Stephen L. Dyson (Park Professor of Classics, University at Buffalo)
ISBN: 9780801867606
Format: Paperback
$82.99

He examines the ""typicalRoman community during the High Empire and explores the life cycle of rural inhabitants,...  Read More >>

Rural Tourism and Recreation: Principles to Practice

Rural Tourism and Recreation: Principles to Practice...

Author: Lesley Roberts (Leisure and Tourism Management Department, Scottish Agricultural College, UK) ,  D Hall (Scottish Agricultural College, Auchincruive, UK)
ISBN: 9780851995403
Format: Paperback
$113.59

This book reviews both the theory and practice of rural tourism and recreation. Including numerous case studies...  Read More >>

The Rationality of Rural Life: Economic and Cultural Change in Tuscany

The Rationality of Rural Life: Economic and Cultural...

Author: Jeff Pratt
ISBN: 9783718656271
Format: Hardback
$305.00

The collapse of the share-cropping system, the mezzadria, which was the rural production system of Tuscany, is examined...  Read More >>

The Failure of National Rural Policy: Institutions and Interests

The Failure of National Rural Policy: Institutions and...

Author: William P. Browne
ISBN: 9780878408573
Format: Hardback
$145.07

Blending history, politics and economics, this book sets out to show that the federal government emphasis on farm...  Read More >>

The Failure of National Rural Policy: Institutions and Interests

The Failure of National Rural Policy: Institutions and...

Author: William P. Browne
ISBN: 9780878408580
Format: Paperback
$116.00

Modern farm policy emerged in the United States in 1862, leading to an industrialized agriculture that made the...  Read More >>

Cleansing Rural Dublin: Public Health and Housing Initiatives in the South Dublin Poor Law Union, 1880-1920

Cleansing Rural Dublin: Public Health and Housing Initiatives...

Author: Frank Cullen
ISBN: 9780716527381
Format: Paperback
$38.28

"The ""slum condition"" in 19th century Dublin is a well-documented feature of the city's past. Much is now known...  Read More >>

From Sugar Camps to Star Barns: Rural Life and Landscape in a Western Pennsylvania Community

From Sugar Camps to Star Barns: Rural Life and Landscape...

Author: Sally A. McMurry (Professor of History)
ISBN: 9780271021072
Format: Hardback
$174.11

The story of the rural life and landscape of Somerset County in Pennsylvania, as it evolved from the earliest settlement...  Read More >>

Schade Um All Die Stimmen...: Erinnerungen an Musik Im Alltagsleben. Herausgegeben Von: Dorothea Muthesius

Schade Um All Die Stimmen...: Erinnerungen an Musik...

Author: Dorothea Muthesius
ISBN: 9783205991359
Format: Hardback
$76.56

""60 Autorinnen und Autoren aus èOsterreich und Deutschland, geboren zwischen 1902 und 1960, geben in ihren lebensgeschichtlichen...  Read More >>

African Pastoralism: Conflict, Institutions and Government

African Pastoralism: Conflict, Institutions and Government...

Author: M. A. Mohamed Salih ,  Ton Dietz
ISBN: 9780745317878
Format: Hardback
$306.24

Describes the resilience of African traditional farming practices in resisting the imposition of Western development...  Read More >>

The Nation in the Village: The Genesis of Peasant National Identity in Austrian Poland, 1848–1914

The Nation in the Village: The Genesis of Peasant National...

Author: Keely Stauter-Halsted
ISBN: 9780801438448
Format: Hardback
$163.55

How do peasants come to embrace nationalist sentiment? Exploring the complex case of Poles in Austrian Galicia,...  Read More >>

Agrarian Studies: Synthetic Work at the Cutting Edge

Agrarian Studies: Synthetic Work at the Cutting Edge...

Author: Professor James C Scott ,  Nina Bhatt
ISBN: 9786611729127
Format: Electronic book text
$253.44

This work contains ten chapters on rural society and agrarian issues, encompassing various disciplines, historical...  Read More >>

The Quality of Life in Rural Asia

The Quality of Life in Rural Asia

Author: David Bloom ,  Patricia Craig
ISBN: 9780195924541
Format: Paperback
$68.64

""The Quality of Life in Rural Asia"" presents three objectives in the light of rural Asia's 30-year population...  Read More >>

Peasants without the Party: Grassroots Movements in Twentieth Century China

Peasants without the Party: Grassroots Movements in...

Author: Lucien Bianco
ISBN: 9781563248405
Format: Paperback
$83.99

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The Stonemason: Donald Macleod's Chronicle of Scotland's Highland Clearances

The Stonemason: Donald Macleod's Chronicle of Scotland's...

Author: Douglas MacGowan ,  Donald MacLeod
ISBN: 9780275969479
Format: Hardback
$131.00

Throughout the 18th and 19th centuries, waves of tenant evictions swept through northern Scotland in what would...  Read More >>

Social Research in Rural Communities

Social Research in Rural Communities

Author: P. A. Twunmasi
ISBN: 9789964302672
Format: Paperback
$68.51

This book is designed to present and appraise techinques of social research to students and graduates operating...  Read More >>

Behind Mud Walls: Seventy-five Years in a North Indian Village, Updated and Expanded Edition

Behind Mud Walls: Seventy-five Years in a North Indian...

Author: William Wiser ,  Charlotte Wiser
ISBN: 9780520227101
Format: Paperback
$52.95

In 1925, William and Charlotte Wiser arrived in the North Indian village of Karimpur. Over the next five years they...  Read More >>

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