Rural communities

Immigrants in the United States send more than $20 billion every year back to Mexico-one of the largest flows of such remittances in the world.

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

Tribal people being the original inhabitants of India, constitute a significant part of this vast nation.

Rural Change and Royal Finances in Spain at the End of the Old Regime by Richard Herr offers a comprehensive examination of the social, economic, and political transformations that reshaped Spain's countryside in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

From the authors of This Is Happiness and Her Name Is Rose, a memoir of life in rural Ireland and a meditation on the power, beauty, and importance of the natural world.

How a fraying social fabric is fueling the outrage of rural AmericansWhat is fueling rural America's outrage toward the federal government?

In the early twentieth century, the Chinese state made strenuous efforts to broaden and deepen its authority over rural society.

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Places of worship are the true building blocks of communities where people of various genders, age, and class interact with each other on a regular basis.

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.

Rural Change and Royal Finances in Spain at the End of the Old Regime by Richard Herr offers a comprehensive examination of the social, economic, and political transformations that reshaped Spain's countryside in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

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

A classic early work by the author of Evicted, a close-up look at the lives of wildland firefighters In this rugged account of a rugged profession, Matthew Desmond explores the heart and soul of the wildland firefighter.

Gypsy tales from the SUNDAY TIMES bestselling author.

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

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.

This book is an antidote to the forms of American nationalism, masculinity, exceptionalism, and self-anointed prowess that are currently being flexed on the global stage.

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

In Hard Luck and Heavy Rain Joseph C.

The well-being of rural communities affects the well-being of those who reside in towns and cities because of rural-urban connections through food, drinking water, infectious disease, extreme environmental events, recreation, and for many, retirement residence.

In the '60s it was called the "e;back to the land"e; movement, and in Helen and Scott Nearings' day, it was "e;living the good life.

Focusing on two cases of resettlement in rural Cundinamarca, Colombia, this book examines how displaced campesinos make sense of their displacement and how displacement shapes their everyday lives.

By accepted standards of tradition, Calvert's culture is declining.

The present study attempts to study the factors influencing TV Communication for rural development through community viewing.

Deconstructing Prehumanity is an investigation into the role of archaeological perception in the construction of race.

Christ is present and at work in rural communities.

Early Australian pioneers were blocked from advancing into the interior of the continent by the Great Dividing Range that runs along the east coast of the country.

Offering a revisionist theory that shifts the focus from labour services required by the lord to capital required by the customary tenant, Raftis reveals that "e;peasant economic development"e; and "e;manorial economy"e; are not mutually exclusive terms.

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.

The book highlights, the gradual change in the status of the land and relationships with land in Mali in general and in the Niger river basin in particular.

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.

***'In the January dark, a young man walks slowly into the sea.

Discussions of China's early twentieth-century modernization efforts tend to focus almost exclusively on cities, and the changes, both cultural and industrial, seen there.

An NPR Best Book of the Year: "e;With humor and insight, [the author] writes of relocating his family from Washington, DC, to rural Minnesota.

This interdisciplinary study applies human rights theory to the problems of rural poverty in the Third World.

The British Town and Country Planning machine is the most sophisticated in the world, yet its inadequacies are only too apparent to those who are familiar with its evolution and operation.

In villages around India, many people have no facilities that provide adequate health care and education, despite the Indian government allocating an enormous amount of funding.

Set in Appalachian coal country, this ';superb' (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) legal drama follows one determined lawyer as he faces a coal industry giant in a seven-year battle over clean drinking water for a West Virginia community.

Community-based research (CBR) offers useful insights into the challenges associated with conducting research and ensuring that it generates both excellent scholarship and positive impacts in the communities where the research takes place.

Whereas most studies of migration focus on movement, this book examines the experience of staying put.

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Long considered an urban phenomenon, industrialization also transformed the American countryside.

This study focuses on the politics of memory in the village of Dachuan in northwest China, in which 85 percent of the villagers are surnamed Kong and believe themselves to be descendants of Confucius.

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

Medieval Rural Settlement: Britain and Ireland, AD 800-1600 is a major assessment and review of the origins, forms and evolutions of medieval rural settlement in Britain and Ireland across the period c.

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

With the poetic force of Kathleen Norris and the pastoral warmth of Eugene Peterson, Kansas pastor Roth sets forth a vision for vibrant rural churches, for ministry in congregations that bear a profound sense of both loss and possibility, and for harvesting fruits of transformation and renewal.

This book uses economics, anthropology, statistics, and history to examine industrial, agricultural and foraging societies.

'A breath of fresh air' - Norman FinklesteinWorkers in the Global South are doomed through economic imperialism to carry the burden of the entire world.