Rural communities

In 1939, residents of a rural village near Chengdu watched as Lei Mingyuan, a member of a violent secret society known as the Gowned Brothers, executed his teenage daughter.

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

In the tradition of In Patagonia and Great Plains, Michael Meyer's In Manchuria is a scintillating combination of memoir, contemporary reporting, and historical research, presenting a unique profile of China's legendary northeast territory.

This is the true story of a Londoner who gives up his job as an estate agent in the city, moves to the wilds of Exmoor, starts a smallholding and becomes self-sufficient, with a few bumps along the way.

Susan Gray explores community formation among New England migrants to the Upper Midwest in the generation before the Civil War.

In Iran, folksongs are part of folklore and offer an intimate portrait of a vanishing era.

Development schemes are common throughout the third world.

Rural women comprised the largest part of the adult population of Texas until 1940 and in the American South until 1960.

In 1962, a newly-minted college graduate answered the call of President John F.

Examining how British writers are addressing the urgent matter of how we form and express group belonging in the 21st century, this book brings together a range of international scholars to explore the ongoing crises, developments and possibilities inherent in the task of representing community in the present.

Rural Education in America provides a comprehensive framework for understanding the diversity and complexity of rural communities in the United States and for helping rural educators implement and evaluate successful place-based programs tailored for students and their families.

The constantly changing circumstances of rural life in sub-Saharan Africa have brought with them both successes and failures.

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Architecture for the Poor describes Hassan Fathy's plan for building the village of New Gourna, near Luxor, Egypt, without the use of more modern and expensive materials such as steel and concrete.

Understanding the challenges in research and practice of participation in the digital era, and the important role of local governance in achieving the sustainable development goals, Community Participation and Civic Engagement in the Digital Era unfolds the complex relationship of community participation, social capital and social networks.

This book has been written keeping in mind latest developments in the area of agricultural extension.

The manuscript is a doctoral work in which an effort to introduce a new dimension of poverty named as chronic poverty, from which people of remote rural areas especially tribals are suffering since ages.

By examining the metropolitan fringes of Houston in Montgomery County, Texas, and Washington, D.

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

In Hard Luck and Heavy Rain Joseph C.

"e;Whoever you are, whatever side you're on, if you care about the American west and what's happening to it, read this book.

Alun Howkins' panoramic survey is a social history of rural England and Wales in the twentieth century.

Since its original publication in 1987, Like a Family has become a classic in the study of American labor history.

A superb blend of humour and emotion in this moving tale of family love and sacrifice from the bestselling author of Richard & Judy Book Club pick AN IDEAL HUSBANDMia Channing appears to have an enviable life: a beautiful home, a happy marriage, a job she enjoys and three grown-up children to whom she's devoted.

Sweet Chariot is a pathbreaking analysis of slave families and household composition in the nineteenth-century South.

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.

India, due to its geographical position, climate and geological setting is one of the most disaster prone countries of the world and has been experiencing natural disasters every year.

Marketing and management processes across industries can be very similar, but contexts vary where political intervention, public interest and local sustainability are involved.

In 1949, Romania's fledgling communist regime unleashed a radical and brutal campaign to collectivize agriculture in this largely agrarian country, following the Soviet model.

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

There is more going on in the village of Buckleigh than meets the eye and its sense of community is often as much a curse as a blessing.

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.

Appalachia first entered the American consciousness as a distinct region in the decades following the Civil War.

Peasant Rebels Under Stalin is the first history of the peasant rebellion against Soviet collectivization.

Rural community construction is an important topic of study in China.

This volume Dreams and Realities of Rural Development in India, contains various problematic issues of rural development in India which has become a familiar subject in the academic arena.

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

Die Untersuchung ist im Spannungsfeld der sozialen Bewegungsforschung und der Biographieforschung angesiedelt.

Rural development became a planning concern as it became clear that the strategies adopted in developing countries remained largely ineffective in alleviating poverty and inequalities in rural areas.

Over the years rural development has emerged as a strategy designed to improve the economic and socio life of a specific group of people the rural poor.

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.

Census workers need to capture and analyze information at the finest geographic level with mobile and geospatial-based technology.

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

* Takes a new slant on an increasingly important development issue* There is a noticeable gap in extant literature concerning positive factors beneficial to rural women s leadership development.

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.

Rural ministry can be a frustrating endeavor.