Rural communities books

4164 books were found.

Voices of Migrants: Rural-urban Migration in Costa Rica

Voices of Migrants: Rural-urban Migration in Costa Rica...

Author: Paul Kutsche
ISBN: 9780813012667
Format: Hardback
$158.27

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The Future of Rural Development: Between the Adjustment of the Project Approach and Sectoral Programme Desig

The Future of Rural Development: Between the Adjustment...

Author: Hans Gsanger
ISBN: 9780714641041
Format: Paperback
$71.99

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Where There Is No Doctor Afr 2e

Where There Is No Doctor Afr 2e

Author: David Werner ,  Carol Thuman
ISBN: 9780333516522
Format: Paperback
$28.00

A revised edition of the English-language edition for Africa, this book has been edited to take into account medical...  Read More >>

Respectable Lives: Social Standing in Rural New Zealand

Respectable Lives: Social Standing in Rural New Zealand...

Author: Elvin Hatch
ISBN: 9780520074736
Format: Paperback
$52.95

An ethnography of a small New Zealand farming community, articulating the cultural system beneath the social hierarchy....  Read More >>

Methods for Active Participation

Methods for Active Participation

Author: Terry D. Bergdall
ISBN: 9780195727852
Format: Hardback
$39.95

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Hierarchy and Egalitarianism: Caste, Class and Power in Sinhalese Peasant Society

Hierarchy and Egalitarianism: Caste, Class and Power...

Author: Tamara Gunasekera
ISBN: 9780485195651
Format: Hardback
$231.00

Examines stratification in rural Sri Lanka, taking account of class, status and power. The interaction of national,...  Read More >>

From Congregation Town to Industrial City: Culture and Social Change in a Southern Community

From Congregation Town to Industrial City: Culture and...

Author: Michael Shirley
ISBN: 9780814779774
Format: Hardback
$184.00

The story of 19th-century Winston-Salem, a community of artisans and small farmers, united, as members of a religious...  Read More >>

Farming the Home Place: A Japanese Community in California, 1919–1982

Farming the Home Place: A Japanese Community in California,...

Author: Valerie J. Matsumoto
ISBN: 9780801420740
Format: Hardback
$382.80

In 1919, against a backdrop of a long history of anti-Asian nativism, a handful of Japanese families established...  Read More >>

Poor Whites of the Antebellum South: Tenants and Laborers in Central North Carolina and Northeast Mississippi

Poor Whites of the Antebellum South: Tenants and Laborers...

Author: Charles C. Bolton
ISBN: 9780822314684
Format: Paperback
$41.95

In Poor Whites of the Antebellum South, Charles C. Bolton gives a distinct voice to one of the most elusive groups...  Read More >>

Forgotten Places: Uneven Development in Rural America

Forgotten Places: Uneven Development in Rural America...

Author: Thomas A. Lyson ,  William W. Falk
ISBN: 9780700605927
Format: Hardback
$94.44

On the surface they look very different--rugged northern New England with its primarily White population, the arid...  Read More >>

Challenging the Professions: Frontiers for rural development

Challenging the Professions: Frontiers for rural development...

Author: Professor Robert Chambers (Fellow, Institute of Development Studies (IDS))
ISBN: 9781853391941
Format: Paperback
$51.62

Questioning the dominant approaches taken by many professionals concerned with rural development the theme of this...  Read More >>

Qualitative Enquiry for Rural Development: A review

Qualitative Enquiry for Rural Development: A review...

Author: Jon Moris ,  James Copestake
ISBN: 9781853392153
Format: Paperback
$33.51

The text defines 'qualitative' in this context; surveys the types of information that practitioners of rural developing...  Read More >>

From Heaven to Earth: Images and Experiences of Development in China

From Heaven to Earth: Images and Experiences of Development...

Author: Elizabeth Croll
ISBN: 9780415101875
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This book combines information on events, processes and structures into a comprehensive introduction to the study...  Read More >>

From Heaven to Earth: Images and Experiences of Development in China

From Heaven to Earth: Images and Experiences of Development...

Author: Elizabeth Croll
ISBN: 9780415097468
Format: Hardback
$305.00

This book combines information on events, processes and structures into a comprehensive introduction to the study...  Read More >>

War of Another Kind: A Southern Community in the Great Rebellion

War of Another Kind: A Southern Community in the Great...

Author: Teaches American History Wayne K Durrill (University of Cincinnati)
ISBN: 9781280443039
Format: Electronic book text
$106.74

In this book Durrill describes in graphic detail the disintegration, during the Civil War, of Southern plantation...  Read More >>

Amazonian Caboclo Society: An Essay on Invisibility and Peasant Economy

Amazonian Caboclo Society: An Essay on Invisibility...

Author: Stephen Nugent
ISBN: 9780854967568
Format: Hardback
$305.00

Amazonian Caboclo Society is concerned with peasant society in Brazilian Amazonia. Most anthropological work in...  Read More >>

In the Sticks: Cultural Identity in a Rural Police Force

In the Sticks: Cultural Identity in a Rural Police Force...

Author: Malcolm Young
ISBN: 9780198762898
Format: Hardback
$172.95

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The State and the Poor: Public Policy and Political Development in India and the United States

The State and the Poor: Public Policy and Political...

Author: John Echeverri-Gent
ISBN: 9780520080829
Format: Hardback
$95.95

A comparison of rural development in India and the United States that develops important departures from economic...  Read More >>

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