Rural communities books

North Star Country explores country stores and county fairs, labor unions and dusty roads traveled by peddlers and...  Read More >>

In the MAYNOOTH STUDIES IN LOCAL HISTORY series. An insight into the condition of the urban poor on the eve of the...  Read More >>

Demonstrates an approach, using Eritrea as a case study, for carrying out an in-depth analysis of the sustainability...  Read More >>

The author recounts the wake of his father's death, and reflects on families, farms and rural life in MidWest America....  Read More >>

This book brings together new research on the social history of Central America and the Spanish-speaking Caribbean...  Read More >>

This book brings together new research on the social history of Central America and the Spanish-speaking Caribbean...  Read More >>

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This volume provides case studies of the growth of urban and rural communities and their institutions in Languedoc...  Read More >>

Addresses rural transport policy issues in a comprehensive way. The aim of this book is not so much to provide answers...  Read More >>

Blue Ribbons and Burlesque presents more than 200 arresting photographs taken nearly 30 years ago and an engaging...  Read More >>

Zouping offers important general lessons for the study of China's rural transformation.  Read More >>

This study not only makes farm women's subordination explicit, but in discerning the sources and force of their...  Read More >>

Zouping offers important general lessons for the study of China's rural transformation.  Read More >>

The daughter of the novelist James Fenimore Cooper, Susan Fenimore Cooper (1813-1894) uses narratives and descriptions...  Read More >>

This work explores a dimension of Indian history: the politics of wildness. It suggests that wildness was affirmed...  Read More >>

In 1880, forest covered two-thirds of West Virginia, but by the 1920s lumbermen had denuded the entire region. This...  Read More >>

In Sub-Saharan Africa, ineffective rural transport services present a major obstacle to economic and social development....  Read More >>

Since 1957, more than 45 African countries have received aid from China, yet until recently little has been known...  Read More >>

This work explores the origins of the alarmist rhetoric on land degradation in the western Himalaya, an alarm unsubstantial...  Read More >>

On February 13, 1982, the Guatemalan army stormed into the remote northern Guatemala village of Santa Maria Tzeja....  Read More >>

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From gated communities to Heaven's Gate, the idea and practice of community in America has not only declined but...  Read More >>

These six papers on the settlement history of rural Ireland were originally presented at conferences and seminars...  Read More >>

From gated communities to Heaven's Gate, the idea and practice of community in America has not only declined but...  Read More >>

This book is a study of Irish farm women and how they view the circumstances of their lives.  Read More >>