Rural communities books

A semi-autobiographical novel about life in colonial South Africa.  Read More >>

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"In the early 1900s, chocolate tycoon, Milton Hershey, founded the Hershey School for fatherless poor boys, with...  Read More >>

Elizabeth Anne Larsen explores how harness horse racing has resisted gender equalization and excluded women from...  Read More >>

The third volume of THE NOTEBOOK: A Progressive Journal about Women and Girls with Rural and Small Town Roots takes...  Read More >>

Going Driftless is a book that explores a whole world within a world in the upper Midwest and looks at the nostalgia...  Read More >>

This book examines how DUI laws, an undeniably good public policy, may have had negative unintended consequences...  Read More >>

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Rapid and uneven change to the fabric of rural life is widespread in modern Middle Eastern countries. Modernisation,...  Read More >>

Immigrants in the United States send more than $20 billion every year back to Mexico one of the largest flows of...  Read More >>

The image of the family farm as storehouse of the traditional values that built this nation -- self-reliance, resourcefulness,...  Read More >>

Since the early 1800s, people have made a living fishing and harvesting mussels in the lower Ohio Valley. These...  Read More >>

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For subsistence farmers in eastern Kentucky, wealthy horse owners in the central Bluegrass, and tobacco growers...  Read More >>

The debate over the source of Appalachia's economic problems has been going strong since Harry Caudill's Night...  Read More >>

The social life of older rural Americans is made up of relationships formed through kinship, their neighborhoods,...  Read More >>

The farm family is a unique institution, perhaps the last remnant, in an increasingly complex world, of a simpler...  Read More >>

The farm crisis of the 1980s quickly became a media event, with scenes depicted starkly in black and white on color...  Read More >>

This book critically discusses these new practices and the actors engaged in them. In doing so, it deals with several...  Read More >>

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Most people don't think much about electricity. They just flick a switch to light a room or turn on their computers...  Read More >>

Our rural communities are home to some of the most hard working and fiercely self-reliant Americans in the United...  Read More >>

This collection analyses various European rural locations through a relational lens, attending to key aspects and...  Read More >>

An engaging and intimate journey of personal and political discovery.  Read More >>

Le 20 juin 2002 fut depose a la sacem les poules municipales ... Une chanson qui voulait faire rire et reflechir....  Read More >>