Though historians have come to acknowledge the mobility of rural populations in early modern Europe, few books demonstrate the intensity and importance of short-distance migrations as definitively as Strangers and Neighbours.
This book analyzes the industrialization process of Jianshanxia, a mountain village in Zhejiang Province, and its organizational changes since China's reform and opening-up.
The present Encyclopaedia introduces the readers, the students of rural development, the economists, the planners, the administrators, the sociologists and the functionaries to the development of the rural areas in which around eighty percent of the lndian population have been living and particularly the rural poor who have been unconcerned about the fortune makers in Delhi for the last four decades since we attained independence.
Esta obra aborda el tema de la competitividad desde una perspectiva territorial, primero descubre el estado del arte y sistematiza los enfoques y criterios que se emplean en el analisis de la competitividad, principalmente desde la vision del desarrollo territorial.
Die vielfältigen Lebens- und Arbeitsverhältnisse, die Frauen in ländlichen Regionen heutzutage zugänglich sind, bieten ihnen Möglichkeiten einer selbstbestimmten Lebensführung und der Verwirklichung individueller Potentiale.
Building Strong Communities is an introductory textbook that contains practical tools, down-to-earth frameworks and useful methods, a valuable resource for working with communities.
This title is part of UC Presss Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact.
Each year, millions of tourists are drawn to Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, to experience first-hand the quintessential pastoral--both as an escape from urban life and as a rare opportunity to become immersed in history.
Mixed Harvest explores rural responses to the transformation of the northern United States from an agricultural society into an urban and industrial one.
The industrial expansion of the twentieth century brought with it a profound shift away from traditional agricultural modes and practices in the American South.
It is not an exaggeration to say that the battle to achieve the global society's stated objectives on hunger and poverty reduction will be won or lost in the rural areas of the developing countries.
Lorna Jowett delves into the distinctive stories and characters, including the Doctors themselves, their female and male companions, Captain Jack Harkness, Missy, Sarah Jane and her young comrades.
Moving Spaces and Places is about movement as a transformative experience, showing how movement changes affect and percept of spaces and place and solidifies space into meaningful places.
American Indian Education/indigenous education is still faltering today and is not producing significant differences in results where school practices follow those for the dominant culture.
Based on interviews with Leamington greenhouse growers and migrant Mexican workers, Tanya Basok offers a timely analysis of why the Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program is needed.
From the authors of This Is Happiness and Her Name Is Rose, a memoir of life in rural Ireland and a meditation on the power, beauty, and importance of the natural world.
This anthropological study of a workers village in North Taiwan makes an important contribution to the comparative literature on Chinese and Taiwanese social organization.
Showcasing the voices, perspectives, and experiences of rural English teachers and students, Teaching English in Rural Communities promotes equity, diversity, and inclusivity within rural education.
A dazzling piece of narrative nonfiction about land lust and the American West, The Crazies tells the story of a wind farm that triggers a 21st century range war between a struggling fifth-generation rancher and the billionaires next door.
Medieval Rural Settlement: Britain and Ireland, AD 800-1600 is a major assessment and review of the origins, forms and evolutions of medieval rural settlement in Britain and Ireland across the period c.
At the turn of the nineteenth century, when the word "e;capital"e; first found its way into the vocabulary of mid-Hudson Valley residents, the term irrevocably marked the profound change that had transformed the region from an inward-looking, rural community into a participant in an emerging market economy.
