Rural communities books

4164 books were found.

The Heat of the Hearth

The Heat of the Hearth
Author: Janet Carsten ISBN: 9780198280453 Format: Hardback	$62.95
Janet Carsten offers an investigation of the nature of kinship in Malaysia, based upon her own experience of life... Read More >>

Teaching The Commons: Place, Pride, And The Renewal Of Community

Teaching The Commons: Place, Pride, And The Renewal...
Author: Paul Theobald ISBN: 9780813323022 Format: Paperback	$94.99
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Songs At the River's Edge: Stories From a Bangladeshi Village

Songs At the River's Edge: Stories From a Bangladeshi...
Author: Katy Gardner , Cyrus Vance ISBN: 9780745310947 Format: Paperback	$54.95
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Hidden Struggles in Rural South Africa: Politics and Popular Movements in the Transkei and Eastern Cape, 1890-1930

Hidden Struggles in Rural South Africa: Politics and...
Author: Professor William Beinart , Colin Bundy ISBN: 9780852550137 Format: Paperback	$69.84
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The End of the Peasantry in Southeast Asia: A Social and Economic History of Peasant Livelihood, 1800-1990s

The End of the Peasantry in Southeast Asia: A Social...
Author: R.E. Elson ISBN: 9780333552940 Format: Paperback	$116.41
This book analyses the changing context and conditions of production and livelihood amongst Southeast Asia's peasants... Read More >>

Mark Twain Made Me Do It and Other Plains Adventures

Mark Twain Made Me Do It and Other Plains Adventures...
Author: Bryan L. Jones ISBN: 9780803275928 Format: Paperback	$40.70
A collection of humorous essays portraying western Nebraska life and culture of the 1950s. It includes anecdotes... Read More >>

Revealing Rural Others: Representation, Power and Identity in the British Countryside

Revealing Rural Others: Representation, Power and Identity...
Author: Paul Milbourne ISBN: 9781855674240 Format: Hardback	$356.40
A collection of 11 papers on issues of representation, power and identity within the British countryside. The work... Read More >>

Freeing China's Farmers: Rural Restructuring in the Reform Era: Rural Restructuring in the Reform Era

Freeing China's Farmers: Rural Restructuring in the...
Author: David Zweig ISBN: 9781563248382 Format: Paperback	$96.99
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Rural Women Teachers in the United States: A Sourcebook

Rural Women Teachers in the United States: A Sourcebook...
Author: Andrea Wyman ISBN: 9780810831568 Format: Hardback	$171.60
Provides a starting point for further research on the lives and duties of rural women teachers. It collects in a... Read More >>

Freeing China's Farmers: Rural Restructuring in the Reform Era: Rural Restructuring in the Reform Era

Freeing China's Farmers: Rural Restructuring in the...
Author: David Zweig ISBN: 9781563248375 Format: Hardback	$305.00
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Vietnam's Rural Transformation

Vietnam's Rural Transformation
Author: Benedict J Tria Kerkvliet , Ford Foundation- Martha Uniack ISBN: 9780813390222 Format: Paperback	$110.00
This volume points up many of the complexities involved in any simple notion of what constitutes rural development... Read More >>

Mexico's Second Agrarian Reform: Household and Community Responses, 1990-1994

Mexico's Second Agrarian Reform: Household and Community...
Author: Alain de Janvry , Gustavo Gordillo ISBN: 9781878367303 Format: Paperback	$42.24
This book provides a detailed quantitative characterization of the household and community responses to the rural... Read More >>

State and Rural Society in Medieval Islam: Sultans, Muqta‘s and Fallahun

State and Rural Society in Medieval Islam: Sultans,...
Author: Tsugitaka Sato ISBN: 9789004106499 Format: Hardback	$543.84
Arabic and Persian sources state that soldiers were eager to hold better iqṭā‘ in Iraq, Syria and Egypt. This thorough... Read More >>

The Culture of Wilderness: Agriculture As Colonization in the American West

The Culture of Wilderness: Agriculture As Colonization...
Author: Frieda Knobloch ISBN: 9780807845851 Format: Paperback	$71.15
Combines cultural and technological history, to show how agriculture functioned as a colonizing force in the American... Read More >>

HOLDING OUR GROUND: PROTECTING AMERICA'S FARMS AND

HOLDING OUR GROUND: PROTECTING AMERICA'S FARMS AND
Author: Thomas L. Daniels , Deborah Bowers ISBN: 9781559634823 Format: Book	$64.95
Farmers, who own or rent most of the private land in America, hold the key not only to the nation's food supply,... Read More >>

Mouth of People, Voice of God

Mouth of People, Voice of God
Author: Smriti Srinivas ISBN: 9780195642292 Format: Hardback	$28.95
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Knowing Your Place: Rural Identity and Cultural Hierarchy

Knowing Your Place: Rural Identity and Cultural Hierarchy...
Author: Barbara Ching , Gerald W. Creed ISBN: 9780415915441 Format: Hardback	$305.00
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Daydreams and Nightmares: A Sociological Essay on the American Environment

Daydreams and Nightmares: A Sociological Essay on the...
Author: William R. Burch ISBN: 9781946201034 Format: Paperback	$65.87
This analysis examines the social consequences of man-environment interactions. Read More >>

The Yankee West: Community Life on the Michigan Frontier

The Yankee West: Community Life on the Michigan Frontier...
Author: Susan E. Gray ISBN: 9780807846100 Format: Paperback	$71.15
Focusing on the Michigan frontier in the US, this text examines how """"Yankees"""" moving west reconstructed familiar... Read More >>

The Temple of Memories: History, Power, and Morality in a Chinese Village

The Temple of Memories: History, Power, and Morality...
Author: Jun Jing ISBN: 9780804727563 Format: Hardback	$82.95
This account of the struggle of a devastated community to resurrect its heritage, and thereby itself, gives us an... Read More >>

Sea Hunters of Indonesia: Fishers and Weavers of Lamalera

Sea Hunters of Indonesia: Fishers and Weavers of Lamalera...
Author: R. H. Barnes (Professor of Social Anthropology and Fellow, Professor of Social Anthropology and Fellow, St Antony's College, University of Oxford) ISBN: 9780198280705 Format: Hardback	$444.95
Sea Hunters of Indonesia is a comprehensive study of the culture, economy, and history of Lamalera, a traditional... Read More >>

Knowing Your Place: Rural Identity and Cultural Hierarchy

Knowing Your Place: Rural Identity and Cultural Hierarchy...
Author: Barbara Ching , Gerald W. Creed ISBN: 9780415915458 Format: Paperback	$98.99
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Wiregrass Country

Wiregrass Country
Author: Jerrilyn McGregory ISBN: 9781283707275 Format: Electronic book text	$297.00
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Great Place to Raise Kids: Interpretation, Science, and the Rural-Urban Debate

Great Place to Raise Kids: Interpretation, Science,...
Author: Kieran Martin Bonner ISBN: 9781282854512 Format: Electronic book text	$250.80
Popular wisdom and many rural centres make the claim that the country is a great place to raise kids. But is it?... Read More >>

Villes Secondaires Et Pouvoirs Locaux En Afrique Sub-Saharienne: Le Congo

Villes Secondaires Et Pouvoirs Locaux En Afrique Sub-Saharienne:...
Author: Robert Edmond Ziavoula ISBN: 9789171063984 Format: Book	$23.16
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