Rural communities books

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City Against Suburb: The Culture Wars in an American Metropolis

City Against Suburb: The Culture Wars in an American...

Author: Joseph Rodriguez
ISBN: 9780275964061
Format: Hardback
$110.00

As suburbs draw more businesses and residents, they produce new forms of art and cultural events which longtime...  Read More >>

De-Centering Sexualities

De-Centering Sexualities

Author: Richard Phillips ,  David Shuttleton
ISBN: 9780415194662
Format: Paperback
$110.00

This text of critical rural geography draws attention to sex and sexualities outside the metropolis. It explores...  Read More >>

De-Centering Sexualities

De-Centering Sexualities

Author: Richard Phillips ,  David Shuttleton
ISBN: 9780415194655
Format: Hardback
$378.00

This book explores sexualities and sexual experiences in a variety of rural and marginal spaces, with contributions...  Read More >>

Churchwardens' Accounts of Cratfield, 1640-1660

Churchwardens' Accounts of Cratfield, 1640-1660

Author: Lynn Ann Botelho (Royalty Account) ,  Lynn Ann Botelho (Royalty Account)
ISBN: 9780851157597
Format: Hardback
$158.40

Offers evidence for East Anglian life in the Civil War.  Read More >>

Fertile Ground: The impacts of participatory watershed management

Fertile Ground: The impacts of participatory watershed...

Author: Fiona Hinchcliffe ,  John Thompson
ISBN: 9781853393891
Format: Paperback
$77.50

The studies present a complex picture of the achievements and continuing challenges faced by conservation professionals...  Read More >>

Men Like That: A Southern Queer History

Men Like That: A Southern Queer History

Author: John Howard
ISBN: 9780226354712
Format: Hardback
$85.80

This history of queer life in the South seeks to debunk the myth that same-sex desires can't find expression outside...  Read More >>

Peasants and Religion: A Socioeconomic Study of Dios Olivorio and the Palma Sola Religion in the Dominican Republic

Peasants and Religion: A Socioeconomic Study of Dios...

Author: Mats Lundahl (Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden) ,  Jan Lundius
ISBN: 9780415174114
Format: Hardback
$462.00

This book analyzes the success and violent repression of a milennarian religious peasant movement in the Dominican...  Read More >>

Patrick Sellar and the Highland Clearances: Homicide, Eviction and the Price of Progress

Patrick Sellar and the Highland Clearances: Homicide,...

Author: Eric Richards (Professor of History, Flinders University)
ISBN: 9781902930138
Format: Paperback
$79.99

A balanced assessment of Patrick Sellar, a vivid account of a terrible episode in Highland history, and a riveting...  Read More >>

Fields, Forest, And Family: Women's Work And Power In Rural Laos

Fields, Forest, And Family: Women's Work And Power In...

Author: Carol Ireson
ISBN: 9780813337302
Format: Paperback
$96.99

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Remotely Global: Village Modernity in West Africa

Remotely Global: Village Modernity in West Africa

Author: Charles Piot
ISBN: 9780226669694
Format: Paperback
$49.95

Arguing that village life is an effect of the modern and the global, this text analyzes everyday and social practices,...  Read More >>

Remotely Global: Village Modernity in West Africa

Remotely Global: Village Modernity in West Africa

Author: Charles Piot
ISBN: 9780226669687
Format: Hardback
$163.95

Arguing that village life is an effect of the modern and the global, this text analyzes everyday and social practices,...  Read More >>

Margaret Mead, Gregory Bateson, and Highland Bali: Fieldwork Photographs of Bayung Gede, 1936-1939

Margaret Mead, Gregory Bateson, and Highland Bali: Fieldwork...

Author: Gerald Sullivan
ISBN: 9780226384344
Format: Hardback
$165.00

This text presents 200 photographs that Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson took between 1936 and 1939. They capture...  Read More >>

A Generation Later: Household Strategies and Economic Change in the Rural Philippines

A Generation Later: Household Strategies and Economic...

Author: James F. Eder
ISBN: 9780824821531
Format: Hardback
$134.64

A Generation Later moves beyond analytical models of rural change that focus on the peasant/agricultural aspect...  Read More >>

Rural Change in Ireland

Rural Change in Ireland

Author: John Davis
ISBN: 9780853897347
Format: Paperback
$50.03

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Rural Health in the United States

Rural Health in the United States

Author: Thomas C. Ricketts
ISBN: 9780195131284
Format: Paperback
$70.95

Providing a view of the health status and health care resources of the rural areas of the USA, this book updates...  Read More >>

Adam was a Ploughman

Adam was a Ploughman

Author: C.Henry Warren
ISBN: 9780753157169
Format: Hardback
$85.80

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Panama's Poor: Victims, Agents and Historymakers

Panama's Poor: Victims, Agents and Historymakers

Author: Gloria Rudolf
ISBN: 9780813016801
Format: Hardback
$158.27

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New Englanders on the Ohio Frontier: Migration and Settlement of Worthington, Ohio

New Englanders on the Ohio Frontier: Migration and Settlement...

Author: The Kent State University Press ,  Robert W. McCormick
ISBN: 9780873386524
Format: Paperback
$52.80

This case study of one community provides a perspective from which historians can better understand the process...  Read More >>

Syria's Peasantry, the Descendants of Its Lesser Rural Notables, and Their Politics

Syria's Peasantry, the Descendants of Its Lesser Rural...

Author: Hanna Batatu
ISBN: 9780691002545
Format: Hardback
$210.00

Presents an analysis of the social, economic, and political evolution of Syria's peasantry, the segment of society...  Read More >>

Working the Sahel

Working the Sahel

Author: W.M. Adams ,  M.J. Mortimore
ISBN: 9780415140966
Format: Hardback
$378.00

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Kinship, Honour and Money in Rural Pakistan: Subsistence Economy and the Effects of International Migration

Kinship, Honour and Money in Rural Pakistan: Subsistence...

Author: Alain Lefebvre
ISBN: 9780700709847
Format: Hardback
$189.00

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An An Agrarian Republic: Commercial Agriculture and the Politics of Peasant Communities in El Salvador, 1823–1914

An An Agrarian Republic: Commercial Agriculture and...

Author: Aldo Lauria
ISBN: 9780822957003
Format: Paperback
$65.87

This book provides an archival research on the agrarian history of El Salvador during the nineteenth century, a...  Read More >>

Rural Women and Triple Exploitation in Korean Development

Rural Women and Triple Exploitation in Korean Development...

Author: Dong-Sook Shin Gills
ISBN: 9786610818303
Format: Electronic book text
$554.40

This is an analysis of the role played and burden borne by rural women during South Korean economic development...  Read More >>

Pastoralists under Pressure?: Fulbe Societies Confronting Change in West Africa

Pastoralists under Pressure?: Fulbe Societies Confronting...

Author: Victor Azarya ,  Anneke Breedveld
ISBN: 9789004113640
Format: Leather / fine binding
$654.72

This collection of papers on the Fulbe is an up-to-date and comprehensive overview of social change in one of the...  Read More >>

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