Rural communities

This book explains the evolution of human cooperation in tribal societies using insights from game theory, ethnography and archaeology.

This book explains the evolution of human cooperation in tribal societies using insights from game theory, ethnography and archaeology.

Este informe, elaborado por siete organizaciones campesinas junto al Centro de Estudios en Derecho, Justicia y Sociedad -Dejusticia y el Instituto de Estudios Interculturales de la Universidad Javeriana de Cali, recoge más de 60 años de violencia y sus efectos en contra del campesinado, con la tesis central que el conflicto armado se convirtió en una guerra contra el campesinado.

This is the first book to examine the late Byzantine village through written, archaeological and painted sources.

This is the first book to examine the late Byzantine village through written, archaeological and painted sources.

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

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

Beyond the Mountains explores the ways in which Appalachia often served as a laboratory for the exploration and practice of American conceptions of nature.

This book explores the diverse immigrant experiences in urban West Africa, where some groups integrate seamlessly while others face exclusion and violence.

This book explores the diverse immigrant experiences in urban West Africa, where some groups integrate seamlessly while others face exclusion and violence.

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

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

This book paints a vivid picture of daily life and rural economy in Russia before the 1861 abolition of serfdom.

This book paints a vivid picture of daily life and rural economy in Russia before the 1861 abolition of serfdom.

This book on Russia examines historical reforms and interventions affecting agriculture and assesses their impact on the rural economy.

This book on Russia examines historical reforms and interventions affecting agriculture and assesses their impact on the rural economy.

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA PROSPECT BOOK OF THE YEAR'I couldn't put it down.

The attitudes of local elites - the hinge between Indian state and rural society - towards protest and participation in development.

The attitudes of local elites - the hinge between Indian state and rural society - towards protest and participation in development.

The rural is not what it used to be.

A thoughtful text integrating strengths, assets, and capacity-building themes with contemporary issues in rural social work practice Now in its second edition, Rural Social Work is a collection of contributed readings from social work scholars, students, and practitioners presenting a framework for resource building based on the strengths, assets, and capacities of people, a tool essential for working with rural communities.

A thoughtful text integrating strengths, assets, and capacity-building themes with contemporary issues in rural social work practice Now in its second edition, Rural Social Work is a collection of contributed readings from social work scholars, students, and practitioners presenting a framework for resource building based on the strengths, assets, and capacities of people, a tool essential for working with rural communities.

Health-related disparities remain a persistent, serious problem across the nation's more than 60 million rural residents.

Health-related disparities remain a persistent, serious problem across the nation's more than 60 million rural residents.

Argues that Late Byzantine rural communities were resilient and able to transform their socioeconomic strategies in the face of crisis.

Argues that Late Byzantine rural communities were resilient and able to transform their socioeconomic strategies in the face of crisis.

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

It explores the formation of India''s rural middle class, which rests on a complex, and often contradictory, set of processes that began unfolding with growing industrialisation in rural areas.

Shows the ''moral economy'' of early medieval England transformed by ''feudal thinking'' in the aftermath of the Norman Conquest.

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

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

This book explores how political quotas mandating inclusion of marginalized groups socially impact the intergroup relations.

This book explores how political quotas mandating inclusion of marginalized groups socially impact the intergroup relations.

The book intends to explain the forms and dynamics of political processes in rural India.

A ground-breaking historical ethnography of kinship, religion, and village society in a remote rural backwater of the Roman world.

A ground-breaking historical ethnography of kinship, religion, and village society in a remote rural backwater of the Roman world.

INCLUDES A BONUS SHORT STORY BY LEE CHILD AND TESS GERRITSEN, STARRING JACK REACHER AND THE ENIGMATIC MAGGIE BIRD.

A striking and famous feature of the English landscape, Dartmoor is a beautiful place, with a sense of wildness and mystery.

Albania is the least-known and least developed country in Europe.

Albania is the least-known and least developed country in Europe.

The enduring 'Town versus Country' debate lies at the root of modern British society.

To most outsiders, the hills of the Scottish Borders are a bleak and foreboding space - usually made to represent the stigmatized Other, Ad Finis, by the centers of power in Edinburgh, London, and Brussels.

This edited book contains salient papers presented at the XII World Congress of Rural Sociology held in South Korea in 2008.

Among the most pervasive of stereotypes imposed upon southern highlanders is that they were white, opposed slavery, and supported the Union before and during the Civil War, but the historical record suggests far different realities.

Southern England has been studied considerably less than the industrializing north and midlands in the debate on the standard of living in the period up to 1850.

No one has done more to emphasise the significance of the land in early modern England that Joan Thirsk, whose writings are both an important contribution to its history and point the way for future research.

No one has done more to emphasise the significance of the land in early modern England that Joan Thirsk, whose writings are both an important contribution to its history and point the way for future research.

Margaret Spufford has written as detailed an account of the lives and activities of the chapmen as there is likely to be, given the widely-spread and fragmented evidence.