Rural communities

Despite the vast changes in plantation agriculture following the Civil War and Reconstruction, the lot of small farmers was little improved.

In a political environment characterized by intense urban-rural polarization and growing hostility between cities and state legislatures, When Cities Lobby explores how local officials use lobbyists to compete for power in state politics.

In a political environment characterized by intense urban-rural polarization and growing hostility between cities and state legislatures, When Cities Lobby explores how local officials use lobbyists to compete for power in state politics.

Music Downtown Eastside draws on two decades of research in one of North America's poorest urban areas to illustrate how human rights can be promoted through music.

Music Downtown Eastside draws on two decades of research in one of North America's poorest urban areas to illustrate how human rights can be promoted through music.

Winner of Balsillie Prize for Public PolicyWinner of Donner PrizeA Summer Book of 2021, Financial TimesLonglisted Financial Times and McKinsey Best Business Book of the YearA challenge to prevailing ideas about innovation and a guide to identifying the best growth strategy for your community.

Winner of Balsillie Prize for Public PolicyWinner of Donner PrizeA Summer Book of 2021, Financial TimesLonglisted Financial Times and McKinsey Best Business Book of the YearA challenge to prevailing ideas about innovation and a guide to identifying the best growth strategy for your community.

This book is about the different ways that men and women experienced migration from the Southern seaboard to the antebellum Southern frontier.

With the ascendancy of Deng Xiaoping in 1978, China began a program of agricultural reform intended to increase productivity.

Between the frequently recounted events of the Gold Rush and the Great Depression stretches a period of California history that is equally crucial but less often acknowledged.

The first book to document the peasant rebellion against Soviet collectivization, Peasant Rebels Under Stalin retrieves a crucial lost chapter from the history of Stalinist Russia.

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.

The growth of rural industry in China since 1978 has been explosive.

The main focus of this book is on the causation of starvation in general and of famines in particular.

Over the last few decades, debates about policing in poor urban areas have turned from analyzing the state's neglect and abandonment into documenting its harsh interventions and punishing presence.

Over the last few decades, debates about policing in poor urban areas have turned from analyzing the state's neglect and abandonment into documenting its harsh interventions and punishing presence.

Drawn from real stories of rural child welfare practice, Rural Child Welfare Practice displays lessons learned from people working in the services field of child welfare.

City Living is about urban spaces, urban dwellers, and how these spaces and people make, shape, and change one another.

City Living is about urban spaces, urban dwellers, and how these spaces and people make, shape, and change one another.

Across all the boroughs, The Long Crisis shows, New Yorkers helped transform their broke and troubled city in the 1970s by taking the responsibilities of city governance into the private sector and market, steering the process of neoliberalism.

Across all the boroughs, The Long Crisis shows, New Yorkers helped transform their broke and troubled city in the 1970s by taking the responsibilities of city governance into the private sector and market, steering the process of neoliberalism.

Each year in the United States, more than 625,000 individuals are released from prison.

Each year in the United States, more than 625,000 individuals are released from prison.

How do societies negotiate the apparently competing agendas of environmental protection and social justice?

How do societies negotiate the apparently competing agendas of environmental protection and social justice?

In A Village Goes Mobile, Sirpa Tenhunen examines how the mobile telephone has contributed to social change in rural India.

In A Village Goes Mobile, Sirpa Tenhunen examines how the mobile telephone has contributed to social change in rural India.

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.

The field of community psychology has focused on individuals' and groups' behavior in interaction with their social contexts, with an emphasis on prevention, early intervention, wellness promotion, and competency development.

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.

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.

To Know the Soul of a People is a history of religion and race in the agricultural South before the Civil Rights era.

To Know the Soul of a People is a history of religion and race in the agricultural South before the Civil Rights era.

Crime and gentrification are hot button issues that easily polarize racially diverse neighborhoods.

Crime and gentrification are hot button issues that easily polarize racially diverse neighborhoods.

How is it that America's cities remain almost as segregated as they were fifty years ago?

How is it that America's cities remain almost as segregated as they were fifty years ago?

A SUNDAY TELEGRAPH AND GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE YEARWINNER OF SWEDEN'S AUGUST PRIZEWINNER OF THE WARWICK PRIZE FOR WOMEN IN TRANSLATIONSHORTLISTED FOR THE BRITISH ACADEMY BOOK PRIZE'Osebol is a magnificent success; it is hard to imagine it better .

A TELEGRAPH AND IRISH TIMES BOOK OF THE YEARLONGLISTED FOR THE POLARI FIRST BOOK PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE FORWARD PRIZE FOR BEST FIRST COLLECTIONSHORTLISTED FOR THE JOHN POLLARD FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL POETRY PRIZE 'Impressive .

Colin Elford's A Year in the Woods is an enthralling journey into the heart of the English countryside - with a preamble by Craig Taylor.

The true and hilarious story of how Gerald Durrell and his wife set up their own zoo.

'The best portrait of rural life in England' Roger Deakin'Exquisite' John Updike'The finest contemporary writer on the English countryside' ObserverRonald Blythe's perceptive and vivid evocation of the rural Suffolk he had known since childhood was acclaimed as an instant classic when it was published in 1969.

In this work of creative nonfiction, author Kate Benz provides an intimate look at the present-day residents of Courtland, Kansas (population 285), a town whose economy depends almost entirely on agriculture.

Like an old-fashioned hymn sung in rounds, Something's Rising gives a stirring voice to the lives, culture, and determination of the people fighting the destructive practice of mountaintop removal in the coalfields of central Appalachia.

A revealing look inside a controversial movementThey live in the suburbs of Tennessee and Indiana.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE JHALAK PRIZE 2024Shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize 2023 for Nature Writing'Exquisite, luminous and quietly radical .

One of the largest internal migrations in U.

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

WINNER OF THE SUNDAY TIMES YOUNG WRITER OF THE YEAR AWARD A fascinating look at the impact of country home-making on the lives and work of Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Townsend Warner and Rosamond Lehmann.

The industrial expansion of the twentieth century brought with it a profound shift away from traditional agricultural modes and practices in the American South.