Rural communities

In 1880, ancient-growth forest still covered two-thirds of West Virginia, but by the 1920s lumbermen had denuded the entire region.

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.

Since the mid-1990s, Morocco has sought to present itself as a model of genuine and gradual reform, with decentralisation as a key tenet of this.

Published just days before America's entry into World War II, Ozark Country is Otto Ernest Rayburn's love letter to his adopted region.

In this prize-winning exploration of the meaning of home, Annie Zaidi reflects on places, cultures and conflicts that shape identity.

Spring has arrived in the beautiful village of Thrush Green - but problems are never far away.

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.

Artisanship is the backbone of our culture and traditional livelihood.

After the collapse of the USSR, Kyrgyzstan chose a path of economic and political liberalization.

In 1933 Congress granted American laborers the right of collective bargaining, but farmworkers got no New Deal.

Die vielfältigen Lebens- und Arbeitsverhältnisse, die Frauen in ländlichen Regionen heutzutage zugänglich sind, bieten ihnen Möglichkeiten einer selbstbestimmten Lebensführung und der Verwirklichung individueller Potentiale.

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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 volume represents one of the first efforts to harvest the rapidly emerging scholarship in the field of American rural history.

"e;Jinny the Carrier"e; is a 1913 novel by British author Israel Zangwill (1864-1926).

Cities are possibly the most dynamic and important administrative units today.

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.

Main objective in this study is to make a sociological analysis of the trends and factors in the Growth of Ballia town during the period 1951-74.

Mixed Harvest explores rural responses to the transformation of the northern United States from an agricultural society into an urban and industrial one.

Explores the economic, social and financial changes that have transformed China''s rural governance over the past twenty years.

Social work, as a profession, originated in the 19th century.

Each year in India more than two million people fall sick with tuberculosis (TB), an infectious, airborne, and potentially deadly lung disease.

You hear a lot these days about "e;innovation and entrepreneurship"e; and about how "e;good jobs"e; in tech will save our cities.

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.

Main objective in this study is to make a sociological analysis of the trends and factors in the Growth of Ballia town during the period 1951-74.

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.

Was haben "Hoamatle", "Heumahd" und Heimat miteinander zu tun?

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.

In 1880, ancient-growth forest still covered two-thirds of West Virginia, but by the 1920s lumbermen had denuded the entire region.

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.

Until now, Fresh Expressions has been about starting and sustaining mission initiatives among people with little or no church contact.

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.

An examination of poverty dynamics and developmental failure, shifting emphasis from development as control to development as coping strategy.

A revealing examination of small-town lifeMore than thirty million Americans live in small, out-of-the-way places.

This book examines the current position of the San as marginalized indigenous peoples in Namibia.

Rural people and communities continue to play important social, economic, and environmental roles at a time when societies are rapidly urbanizing.

An enchanting and joyous exploration of life and creativity at the geographical edges of the modern world Who is a provincial?

This study focuses on the politics of memory in the village of Dachuan in northwest China, in which 85 percent of the villagers are surnamed Kong and believe themselves to be descendants of Confucius.

The first comprehensive treatment of the ''small politics'' of rural communities in the Late Roman world.

Rural-oriented scholarship in criminology is growing, in part motivated by governmental, community and academic recognition that, despite stereotypes of the 'rural idyll', crime and justice are significant issues in the rural landscape.