Identity and Struggle at the Margins of the Nation-State brings together new research on the social history of Central America and the Spanish-speaking Caribbean during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Anlässlich des 100-jährigen Jubiläums des Tiroler Grauviehzuchtverbandes widmen die Ötztaler Museen eine Sonderausstellung dem Thema Viehwirtschaft und Viehzucht – mit Schwerpunkt auf dem Tiroler Grauvieh als Beispiel für eine seltene Nutztierrasse und deren Bedeutung.
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.
'Outrageously Jilly Cooperesque' Sunday Times Style *Take a grand English country house, one (heartbroken) American divorc e, three rich wives, two tycoons, and one (bereaved) butler; put them all into the blender and out comes the impossibly funny Wives Like Us.
Salt of the Earth is an autoethnography and cultural rhetorics case study that examines white supremacy in the authors hometown of Grand Saline, Texas, a community long marred by its racist culture.
Colicky horses, trucks high-centered in pastures, late nights spent in barns birthing calves--the trials and tribulations of farm and ranch life are as central to its experience as amber waves of grain and Sunday dinners at the ranch house.
Rosenfeld argues that farm women have rarely been identified as productive farm workers and that they continue to be seen only as mothers and homemakers.
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.
Drawing on a decade-long ethnographic study of seven Illinois farming communities, Salamon demonstrates how family land transfers serve as the mechanism fro recreating the social relations fundamental to midwestern ethnic identities.
Trapped in an isolating newspaper reporter job in New York City with her husband in an insane asylum, Dawn O'Hara has not yet reached 30 and she already fears she will never be happy again.
Following the Second World War, a massive land reclamation project to boost Japan s rice production capacity led to the transformation of the shallow lagoon of Hachirogata in Akita Prefecture into a seventeen-thousand-hectare expanse of farmland.
At the center of this investigation is the great modernization effort of a West German state, Bavaria, in the 1970s and 1980s, by means of a reform of the smaller units of local government.
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.
Construction of a school building reflected the importance of universal education and a communitys desire to establish permanence in the ever-expanding Western frontier.
As the United States transformed itself from an agricultural to an industrial nation, thousands of young people left farm homes for life in the big city.
American Indian Education/indigenous education is still faltering today and is not producing significant differences in results where school practices follow those for the dominant culture.
Responding to pressure from the United States, the Colombian government in 1996 intensified aerial fumigation of coca plantations in the western Amazon region.
An antidote to bigotry and a “perfect primer for readers seeking factual, realistic portrayals of the rural and working-class experience” (Los Angeles Times).
