Rural communities Books

Ethiopia has made significant progress preventing famine. However, food insecurity remains a significant challenge for the country. As recent as 2016, one in five Ethiopians relied on emergency assistance. Ethiopia and Food Security analyzes what...

""European Colonization in Texas: An Address to the American People"" is a historical book written by Victor Considerant in 1855. The book focuses on the colonization of Texas by European powers, particularly France. Considerant argues that the...

Have you ever wondered about St Leonard's Forest as you pass it by on your bicycle, in your car, or on the bus? Maybe you have walked its footpaths, with or without a dog. Was it a royal forest? Who owned it? What about its dragon? Wasn't there something...

Contradictions between impressive levels of economic growth and the persistence of poverty and inequality are perhaps nowhere more evident than in rural Brazil. While Brazil might appear to be an example of the potential harmony between large-scale,...

China's agriculture and rural society has undergone rapid changes in recent years. Many poorer farmers and younger people have moved to cities, and yet China has an immense challenge to feed a growing and more affluent population. This book provides...

Le livre ""Le Probleme Foncier En Angleterre"" (1893) de Jacques Dumas traite de la question fonci�����re en Angleterre. L'auteur examine les lois et les pratiques en mati�����re de propri�����t����� fonci�����re en Angleterre, en mettant l'accent sur...

The Cameralists: The Pioneers Of German Social Polity is a book written by Albion Woodbury Small and published in 1909. The book explores the work and ideas of the Cameralists, a group of German scholars who played a significant role in the development...

Life In Dixie During The War, 1863-1865 is a historical memoir written by Mary Ann Harris Gay and first published in 1892. The book is a vivid account of the author's experiences living in the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War...

From memories of the isolation and beauty of growing up on a farm, to a burgeoning awareness as a teenager of the economic and cultural forces waged against family farming, to coming to terms with the legacies of her parents after their passing, and,...

This collection of original chapters, written by prominent social scientists, elucidates the theory and practice of contemporary rural sociology. The book applies lessons from the careers of sociologists and their field research endeavors, covering a...

This fourth Rural Sociological Society decennial volume provides advanced policy scholarship on rural North America during the 2010s, closely reflecting upon the increasingly global nature of social, cultural, and economic forces and the impact of...

What they needed was a miracle. What they got was a Spanish goatherder named Antonio. When a middle-aged English couple moves to rural Spain, they are blissfully unaware that their dreams of running a small pony trekking business would be scuppered...

What they needed was a miracle. What they got was a Spanish goatherder named Antonio. When a middle-aged English couple moves to rural Spain, they are blissfully unaware that their dreams of running a small pony trekking business would be scuppered...

Se encuentran en la documentación antropológica y en las investigaciones culturales, sociológicas e historiográficas, vertidas ante los lectores del mundo, las siguientes descripciones esotéricas acerca de nuestra...

On The Deficiencies In The Present Administration Of Hindu Law is a book written by Theodor Goldstucker in 1871. The book is an analysis of the Hindu law system and its administration during the 19th century. Goldstucker, a German Indologist, examines...

In "The Community Classroom: Learning and Growing Together," Avery Nightingale explores a transformative approach to education that transcends traditional classroom boundaries. Rooted in the concept of a human-centric learning environment, this book...

Es ist schon ein außergewöhnlicher Dialekt, das Wendsche Platt, das ausschließlich in der südsauerländischen Gemeinde Wenden noch als Alltagssprache gesprochen wird. Auf einer Fläche von nur 72 qkm hat sich über Jahrhunderte die niederdeutsche,...

First Published 1975, The Latin American Peasant is not a historian's book, the presentation is rather sociological. The concept peasant, taken as equivalent of the word campesino or campones, does have both historical and geographical reality in the...

This text explores how social education impacts gender inequalities in rural Tamil Nadu where women's lives are damaged by discrimination, marginalisation and deprivation. Social education refers to agent-oriented learning experiences focused on power...

Originally published in 1981, the main thesis of this book is that rural labour markets are at the core of the problem of rural depopulation in development countries.

This volume is a cogent empirical analysis of the interplay between a region's natural amenities and its socioeconomic  evolution. It focuses on the rural sectors of America's Intermountain West region, which lies between the...

Using testimony from students and teachers in mountainous Granma province, this book assesses the legacy of Cuba's experiment with mass local higher education in the 2000s. It highlights the interconnectedness of individual and collective change, the...

Trademark-protected since 1910, the famous woollen cloth known as Harris Tweed can only be produced in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland - yet it is exported to over 50 countries around the world. Examining contemporary experiences of work and life, this...

Transience is found in every meeting and form of coexistence between people and things that live and exist by, or move across or along, the Black Sea. It may come in various forms and guises, from de facto states, tourism, migration, trafficking or...

Ethics in Rural Psychology provides readers with theoretical underpinnings, practical applications, and empirically based knowledge of the practice of psychology in rural communities.Dr. Boilen explores the similarities and differences within and...

The self-sufficiency and regional outlook of farm life characterized the United States until the Civil War period

Illustrated definitions are rarely found in zoning and development ordinances. Ordinances prefer the "thousand words" rather than the "single picture." Illustrations greatly simplify how standards should be applied, particularly where the lot or parcel...

Essentials for Blended Learning provides a practical, streamlined approach for creating effective learning experiences by blending online activities and the best of face-to-face teaching. Effective blended learning requires rethinking of teaching...

Rural Geographies provides a critical, contemporary and accessible introduction to rural change by using geographical ideas to understand current issues affecting the countryside.The book discusses how the countryside has been studied by geographers...

When first published in 2008, The New Peasantries revolutionized our ways of thinking of what constitutes the peasantry and repeasantization. It showed how a new era of empire and globalization was creating new forms of peasantry. This new edition is...

Fifty years after the publication of Eric Wolf's celebrated Peasant Wars of the Twentieth Century, this book offers a much-needed critical assessment and update of Wolf's contribution to the study of the peasantry.

Based on almost eight years of fieldwork in a town and a village in South China, this book analyzes contradictions among various dimensions of the peasant economy, social relationships, popular religion, and local politics in rural China. Compared to...

Margaret Nelson investigates the lives of single, working-class mothers in this compelling and timely book. Through personal interviews, she uncovers the different challenges that mothers and their children face in small town America--a place greatly...

This book provides comparative material on the cultural, political and policy contexts of rural homelessness, the nature and scale of the issue, and the complex local geographies of rural homelessness.

'No person, no country in the world, irrespective of its stage of development, is fully self-sufficient. Cooperation brings together peoples and nations and facilitates peaceful co-existence.' So begins Rural Cooperation In The Cooperative Movement In...

This book explores the relationship between plantation labour and gender in Africa. Such a study is the more opportune because most of the existing works on plantation labour in Africa seem to have either under-studied or even ignored the changing...

Offen und ehrlich, schonungslos und liebenswürdig stellt der Autor in einer sehr persönlichen Sichtweise seine Kindheit in seinem Herkunftsort während des ersten Jahrzehnts nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg vor. Es sind Geschichten, die konsequent aus der Sicht...

The Traveling Herding Teacher contains the teachings of Bob Vest, a herding dog trainer in high demand, who traveled endless miles and conducted hundreds of clinics and private lessons annually. Before Bob's passing in 2009, he traveled to Scotland to...

Pastoralism is a diffused and ancient form of human subsistence and probably one of the most studied by anthropologists at the crossroads between continuities and transformations. The present critical discourse on sustainable and responsible development...

Half the world's population lives in rural places, but education scholars and policy makers worldwide give little attention to rural of education. Indeed, most national systems, including in the developed world, treat their educational systems as...

Half the world's population lives in rural places, but education scholars and policy makers worldwide give little attention to rural of education. Indeed, most national systems, including in the developed world, treat their educational systems as...

The division of 'rural' and 'urban' is one of the oldest ideas in Geography and is deeply engrained in our culture. Throughout history, the rural has been attributed with many meanings: as a source of food and energy; as a pristine wilderness, or as a...

In recent decades, the governance of the environment in agri-food systems has emerged as a crucial challenge. A multiplicity of actors have been enrolled in this process, with the private sector and civil society progressively becoming key components in...

Music Saved Them, They Say: Social Impacts of Music-Making and Learning in Kinshasa (DR Congo) explores the role music-making has played in community projects run for young people in the poverty-stricken and often violent surroundings of Kinshasa, the...

Penelope and Others by Amy Walton is a children's novel that delves into the everyday lives and experiences of its young characters, focusing on themes of personal growth, family dynamics, and friendship. The story centers around Penelope, a young...