Rural communities

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 .

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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 .

Based on four years of reporting, "e;a heartfelt portrait of five teenage girls growing up in Maine's remote and economically depressed Washington County"e; (Publishers Weekly).

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.

An inside look at why the Republican Party has come to dominate the rural American South Beginning with the Dixiecrat Revolt of 1948 and extending through the 2020 election cycle, political scientists M.

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.