Rural communities books

Ankle High and Knee Deep collects together essays from more than twenty ranch women, cowgirls, and farmers about...  Read More >>

First published in 1964. With an updated preface from 1963, to include the census of 1953-54 and Eastern Nigerian...  Read More >>

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An illustrated portrayal of three Alabama sharecropper families in 1936, examining their everyday existence in poverty....  Read More >>

In the summer of 1936, Agee and Evans set out on assignment for Fortune magazine to explore the daily lives of...  Read More >>

"The Traveling Herding Teacher contains the teachings of Bob Vest, a herding dog trainer in high demand, who traveled...  Read More >>

Explores the dynamics and complexities of rural livelihoods in rural South Africa. This book highlights the role...  Read More >>

This book surveys the social conditions of family farming across the world and the conditions of its survival into...  Read More >>

With an eye toward the West, Rethinking Rural author Don E. Albrecht reviews characteristics of isolation, mass...  Read More >>

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Examines the commodification of land rights and the effect of international licences for resource extraction on...  Read More >>

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This collection of essays explores the impact of globalization on education, focusing on education for global citizenship....  Read More >>

This collection of essays explores the impact of globalization on education, focusing on education for global citizenship....  Read More >>

Provides a vivid account of growing up on a 160-acre family farm in Goshen Township in Clay County, Kansas. A coming-of-age...  Read More >>

Focuses on 'how' to undertake land reforms in Sub-Saharan Africa, but with relevant lessons for other developing...  Read More >>

The first project-based book in the New Dynamics of Ageing series offers a unique interdisciplinary perspective...  Read More >>

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When it was first published in 1987, this picture of the lives of country folk from the eighteenth century to the...  Read More >>

Through an ethnography of social and spatial practice at the limits of the state, this book explores the contested...  Read More >>

Through an ethnography of social and spatial practice at the limits of the state, this book explores the contested...  Read More >>

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Examines the organisation behind societies which were `organised for war' on a day to day basis. Drawing on a substantial...  Read More >>

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