Rural communities books

Paradise concentrates on the transformed class system of one community in rural Ontario. In a comparison of the...  Read More >>

From its first white settlement in the late 1700s, violence has played a part in the history of the Black Patch...  Read More >>

This book addresses opportunities for wider participation by landless men and women in agricultural growth; the...  Read More >>

The 1970s and 1980s saw a resurgeance of industrial homework in rural areas. This text examines the effects of homeworking...  Read More >>

Through an analysis of national data and detailed case studies, From Combines to Computers examines how the transition...  Read More >>

The aim of this annual review is to provide an overview of actual and proposed changes to rural planning legislation....  Read More >>

This ambitious anthropological study shows how national prosperity and government expansion in Mexico in the 1970's...  Read More >>

This comprehensive study of rural development in Guatemala extends from the late colonial period through to the...  Read More >>

The 1970s and 1980s saw a resurgeance of industrial homework in rural areas. This text examines the effects of homeworking...  Read More >>

This book examines the social and legal foundations of the British ruling class, the great landlords and the gentry....  Read More >>

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A personal portrait of a young American girl's rural childhood - including reminiscences of the Civil War and pioneering...  Read More >>

Respondents used it in different ways - as a bludgeon, as a badge, as a barometer - to signify many different things...  Read More >>

Presents a portrait of Karimpur, an Indian village, as it has changed over a sixty-year period. Using cultural documents...  Read More >>

The popular culture of urban and rural tsarist Russia revealed a dynamic and troubled world. This is a collection...  Read More >>

This volume studies what can be done for alleviating rural poverty. Four chapters address the measurement of poverty...  Read More >>

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Maria L. Lagos supplies a fine-grained ethnographic and historical analysis of the intersecting dynamics of class...  Read More >>

The New World -- this empty land dazzlingly rich in forests, soils, rainfall, and mineral wealth -- was to represent...  Read More >>

A consideration of the desire to live in the countryside, as opposed to the city.  Read More >>

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In the past sheep-rearing was the main means of existence for most Bedouin. Today it is developing in a new direction....  Read More >>

A study of a village some 100 miles from Tokyo where the author lived first in 1955 and again in the early 1970s....  Read More >>

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