Rural communities books

This is an original account of the ideology and practice of renunciation in a pastoral community the Raikas, also...  Read More >>

Challenging traditional beliefs, it is argued in this text that English peasants were in considerable control of...  Read More >>

This work argues that while contemporary society seems to promote the values of individualism and mobility, human...  Read More >>

Thomas Sheridan's study of the municipio of Cucurpe, Sonora, offers new insight into the ability of peasants to...  Read More >>

In contemporary Sri Lanka, long-established modes of rural life are being disrupted in the name of progress. As...  Read More >>

This text provides a historical geography of ""forgotten California"", the portion of the Great Central Valley north...  Read More >>

This is a complete history of plantation development in the Kerala region. Plantations are placed in long-term historical...  Read More >>

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Succinct, passionate, and wise, here is one teacher's answer to the crisis ineducation and to the particular demands...  Read More >>

Wheeler's classic study, a best-seller in the field, placed the Gestalt therapy model squarely in the social-constructivist...  Read More >>

Examines the impact of Enlightenment ideas of progress on the lives and minds of American planters in the colonial...  Read More >>

This study focuses on rural development in OECD countries, and demonstrates that rural does not mean backward or...  Read More >>

This text describes and analyzes the culture of rural Wales from the perspective of the inhabitants of a parish...  Read More >>

For eighty years Mont Abbott lived and worked on the land in Oxfordshire. In this record by Sheila Stewart, Mont...  Read More >>

Based on 18 months of fieldwork, this book investigates the everyday mechanisms of co-existence and continual creations...  Read More >>

Between 1940 and the mid 1980s, farm production expenses in America's Heartland tripled, capital purchases quadrupled,...  Read More >>

After the Ruins uses both official and unofficial records to explore a relatively ignored aspect of recent rural...  Read More >>

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E.W. Mueller (1908-1993) led a distinctive response to the dramatic rural social change of 20th-century America....  Read More >>

An ethnographic study of the rural economy of the west of Ireland, concentrating on the social organization and...  Read More >>

Focusing on two villages in the Keiskammahoek district of the Ciskei, this book analyzes and compares the very different...  Read More >>

Deeply moved by his mother's memories of a waning era and rapidly disappearing lifestyle, John Ise records the adventures...  Read More >>