Rural America is at a crossroads: either it will manage to sustain itself long-term, oras current trends suggestit will continue to disappear through depopulation and urbanization.
Rural America is at a crossroads: either it will manage to sustain itself long-term, oras current trends suggestit will continue to disappear through depopulation and urbanization.
In The Accommodation of Democracy, Thibaud Marcesse investigates the implementation of a large poverty alleviation program, the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme or NREGS, in Uttar Pradesh, one of India's poorest and most populated states.
In The Accommodation of Democracy, Thibaud Marcesse investigates the implementation of a large poverty alleviation program, the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme or NREGS, in Uttar Pradesh, one of India's poorest and most populated states.
Drawing on a decade-long ethnographic study of seven Illinois farming communities, Salamon demonstrates how family land transfers serve as the mechanism fro recreating the social relations fundamental to midwestern ethnic identities.
Drawing from decades of research, Setha Low shows how public space contributes to a flourishing society through promoting social justice and democratic practices.
Drawing from decades of research, Setha Low shows how public space contributes to a flourishing society through promoting social justice and democratic practices.
The bestselling Irish debut novel a multigenerational portrait of small-town life bursting with caustic wit for fans of Jon McGregor, Elizabeth Strout and Paul MurrayWelcome to Ballyrowan: a village built out of stories.
Comment apprehender les phenomenes reliant faits de nature et faits de societe qui constituent la majeure partie des problemes critiques et irresolus contemporains ?
Interweaving social, political, environmental, economic, and popular history, John Alexander Williams chronicles four and a half centuries of the Appalachian past.
Living Off-Grid in Wales addresses broad debates about the possibility of planning for a sustainable future, by an examination of rural development off the grid.
Sleepy rustic Carmarthenshire was secretly a hotbed of debauchery, violence and drunkenness according to Russell Davies in a new edition of his very successful book, Secret Sins.
Going Driftless is a book that explores a whole world within a world in the upper Midwest and looks at the nostalgia of small towns and local living (eating, shopping, etc.
Going Driftless is a book that explores a whole world within a world in the upper Midwest and looks at the nostalgia of small towns and local living (eating, shopping, etc.
Sleepy rustic Carmarthenshire was secretly a hotbed of debauchery, violence and drunkenness according to Russell Davies in a new edition of his very successful book, Secret Sins.
Living Off-Grid in Wales addresses broad debates about the possibility of planning for a sustainable future, by an examination of rural development off the grid.
The Ozark region, located in northern Arkansas and southern Missouri, has long been the domain of the folklorist and the travel writer a circumstance that has helped shroud its history in stereotype and misunderstanding.
The Ozark region, located in northern Arkansas and southern Missouri, has long been the domain of the folklorist and the travel writer a circumstance that has helped shroud its history in stereotype and misunderstanding.
In this elegiac account that is part travelogue, part memoir, British poet and writer Malcolm Ritchie recounts his and his wife's unforgettable three-year-sojourn in Sora, a remote farming and fishing village on the Japan Sea coast.
In this elegiac account that is part travelogue, part memoir, British poet and writer Malcolm Ritchie recounts his and his wife's unforgettable three-year-sojourn in Sora, a remote farming and fishing village on the Japan Sea coast.
Colette's irresistible depiction of a childhood in rural France, in a lush new translation I will never be able to help anyone imagine the splendour, bound up in my memories Claudine lives in a large house with a rose-filled garden and a vegetable patch smelling of tomato leaves and apricots.
Such is life presents a reflective portrait of rural existence shaped by shifting landscapes, physical labor, and the quiet resilience found in everyday routines.
Actualmente, "Bodas de sangre" es una de las obras más representadas y conocidas no solo de Federico García Lorca, sino del teatro español del siglo XX.
Interweaving social, political, environmental, economic, and popular history, John Alexander Williams chronicles four and a half centuries of the Appalachian past.
In this book, Sandra Barney examines the transformation of medical care in Central Appalachia during the Progressive Era and analyzes the influence of women volunteers in promoting the acceptance of professional medicine in the region.
In this book, Sandra Barney examines the transformation of medical care in Central Appalachia during the Progressive Era and analyzes the influence of women volunteers in promoting the acceptance of professional medicine in the region.
Interweaving social, political, environmental, economic, and popular history, John Alexander Williams chronicles four and a half centuries of the Appalachian past.
The author approaches the intricate process of nation-building in Israel through an examination of transformations which took place within a major development sector, rural land settlement, during Israel's first decade of statehood.
Este libro propone una mirada transformadora del derecho agrario colombiano, al plantear el buen vivir como un principio jurídico orientador de la Reforma Rural Integral contemplada en el Acuerdo Final de Paz.
Drawing on a decade-long ethnographic study of seven Illinois farming communities, Salamon demonstrates how family land transfers serve as the mechanism fro recreating the social relations fundamental to midwestern ethnic identities.
From 1950 to 2001, Lovie Beard Shelton practiced midwifery in eastern North Carolina homes, delivering some 4,000 babies to black, white, Mennonite, and hippie women; to those too poor to afford a hospital birth; and to a few rich enough to have any kind of delivery they pleased.
Tracing the history of intercultural struggle and cooperation in the citrus belt of Greater Los Angeles, Matt Garcia explores the social and cultural forces that helped make the city the expansive and diverse metropolis that it is today.
Mixed Harvest explores rural responses to the transformation of the northern United States from an agricultural society into an urban and industrial one.
