Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Peasant Life in Germany A detailed and scholarly account of rural life in Germany in the 19th century, drawn from the author's extensive research and personal observations. Anna C. Johnson was a pioneering social scientist and advocate for rural communities, and this book... RRP: $48.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Constructive Rural Sociology Constructive Rural Sociology is a seminal work in the field of rural sociology. Written by John Morris Gillette, a leading expert in the field, the book provides a comprehensive overview of rural life and society. It offers important insights into the... RRP: $44.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added The Tribe of Ishmael Published in 1913, The Tribe of Ishmael is a sociological study of a group of rural people in midwestern America. Author Oscar Carleton McCulloch argues that the descendants of Ishmael, the son of Abraham who was cast out into the wilderness, represent a... RRP: $33.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added The Mountain Society A groundbreaking study of the cultural and social dynamics of mountain communities, with insights into the unique challenges and opportunities of life in the high country.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part... RRP: $57.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added The Country Church and the Rural Problem A classic study of the challenges facing rural communities in America and the vital role that local churches can play in addressing them. Drawing on his own experiences as a rural minister, Butterfield offers practical advice and inspiring examples of... RRP: $53.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Quaker Hill; a Sociological Study This early 20th century book is a sociological examination of a rural community in upstate New York. Wilson's analysis focuses on the various social structures and institutions that shape life in this small town, including religion, education, and family... RRP: $53.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added A Wild History A new format of an acclaimed history - joint winner of the Northern Territory Chief Minister's History Book Award 2013.In 1883, pastoralists began to drive great herds of cattle into the Northern Territory's Victoria River District. They entered a vast... RRP: $28.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Cultivating Community In the face of escalating water scarcity, effective water management has become a central concern globally. The MurrayDarling Basin, spanning over a million square kilometres across four states and one territory, is a lifeline for Australian agriculture... RRP: $64.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Capital and Inequality in Rural Papua New Guinea That large-scale capital drives inequality in states like Papua New Guinea is clear enough; how it does so is less clear. This edited collection presents studies of the local contexts of capital-intensive projects in the mining, oil and gas, and... RRP: $60.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Landlock Landlock: Paralysing Dispute over Minerals on Adivasi Land in India explores the ways in which political controversy over a bauxite mining and refining project on constitutionally protected tribal lands in Andhra Pradesh descended into a state of... RRP: $54.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Harnessing the Bohemian Harnessing the Bohemian takes a fresh and interdisciplinary perspective on the intractable problem of shrinking populations and resources in remote/rural communities. It challenges the conventional wisdom of community development theories and practices... RRP: $60.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Migration into Rural Areas This innovative book brings together the world's leading scholars of rural migration to examine the theoretical construction of counterurbanisation as a pervasive feature of most modern Western societies and, in a series of specially written... RRP: $575.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Land Dispossession and Everyday Politics in Rural Eastern India Over the past decade India has witnessed a number of land wars that have centred crucially on the often forcible transfer of land from small farmers or indigenous groups to private companies. Among these, the land war that erupted in Singur, West Bengal,... RRP: $159.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Trauma Farm Beginning naked in the darkness Brian Brett takes us on a journey through a summer's day that also tells the story of his affectionately named Trauma Farm--exploring the garden, orchards, fields, the mysteries of live-stock and poultry, and the social... RRP: $47.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Living displacement 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. It is based on a ten-month fieldwork employing... RRP: $233.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added New Lithuania in Old Hands Based on detailed ethnographic material, "New Lithuania in Old Hands" analyzes the impact that European Union accession has had upon the country's aging smallscale farmers, and describes how the reality of Lithuania's EU membership has been a far cry... RRP: $137.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Global Villages This book explores the multiple effects of globalization on urban and rural communities, providing anthropological case studies from postsocialist Bulgaria. As globalization has been studied largely in urban contexts, the aim of this volume is to shift... RRP: $115.00 $83.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Alternative countrysides A fresh anthropological look at a central but neglected topic: the profound changes in rural life throughout Western Europe today. As locals leave for jobs in cities they are replaced by neo-hippies, lifestyle-seekers, eco-activists, and labour migrants... RRP: $247.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added The character of English rural society This is a major study of the transformation of early modern English rural society. It begins by assessing the three major debates about the character of English society: the 'Brenner Debate'; the debate over English Individualism; and the long running... RRP: $207.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Land Rich, Cash Poor The hidden history of an economic and cultural crisis that is threatening our very food supply-the disappearance of the American farmer."An anthem to the family farm in America." -The Associated PressTaking on this working-class story of heart and... RRP: $44.99 $44.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Under the Radiant Hill The northern parish of Assynt boasts some of the most spectacular scenery in Britain. The mountains of Quinag and Suilven dominate a very varied landscape with wild, white hills inland and a complex, intricate moorland to the west. Here, rocky crags,... RRP: $35.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added The Hidden Fires Elemental, fierce and full of wonder, the Cairngorm mountains are the high and rocky heart of Scotland. To know them would take forever, to love them demands a kind of courageous surrender.In The Hidden Fires, Merryn Glover undertakes that challenge with... RRP: $35.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Meadow Meadow explores the intimate and complex relationship between people, place and plants which, over many centuries, has shaped the colour and character of the classic hay meadows of the British Isles.The surviving hay meadows of the British Isles are an... RRP: $59.99 $59.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added A Legacy of Ancient Oaks This beautiful book is a celebration of the mighty oak, through the passion and vision of artist Mark Frith.Mark has drawn large scale portraits of 22 of Britain's oldest living oaks, with exceptional detail conveyed in these intricate graphite works,... RRP: $59.99 $59.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Land and Agrarian Transformation in Zimbabwe This book examines the dynamics underpinning the implementation of Zimbabwe's fast track land reforms. By utilising ethnographic data gathered in central Zimbabwe, the book goes beyond the polarised debates which dominated scholarship in the earlier... RRP: $170.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Regeneration The inspiring story of a Highland estate, which was rescued from the catastrophic effects of decades of human interference, and is now one of the most successful examples of rewilding in the UK.In 1995 the National Trust for Scotland acquired Mar Lodge... RRP: $23.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added The Vermont Plays "Baker may just have the subtlest way with exposition of anyone writing for the theater today... There is something distinctly Chekhovian in the way her writing accrues weight and meaning simply through compassionate, truthful observation." --Charles... RRP: $35.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Rural quality of life Recent research suggests that rural residents in the global North are happier than urban populations in the same countries. This goes against received wisdom in the field, where the opposite is usually assumed. Is quality of life better in the rural... RRP: $275.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Britain's rural Muslims This book examines the relationship between the integration of Muslim migrant communities and rurality in Britain. It uses the county of Wiltshire as a case study, and charts both local authority policy and Muslims communities' personal... RRP: $233.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added On the Rural A collection of previously untranslated writings by Henri Lefebvre on rural sociology, situating his research in relation to wider Marxist workOn the Rural is the first English collection to translate Lefebvre's crucial but lesser-known writings on rural... RRP: $54.99 $54.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Sustainability and the Civil Commons Often used but little understood, the word 'sustainability' is potent in its ability to evoke a better world based on economic, social, and environmental justice. The concept of sustainability, however, has been strikingly under-theorized. Sustainability... RRP: $107.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Billionaire Wilderness A revealing look at the intersection of wealth, philanthropy, and conservationBillionaire Wilderness takes you inside the exclusive world of the ultra-wealthy, showing how today's richest people are using the natural environment to solve the existential... RRP: $47.99 $47.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Uluru This handy guide is your key to the secrets of the most famous National Parks of Australia's Red Centre. It will tell you about the area's pre-history and origins, its geology and landforms, its plants and animals, including how they live. It also... RRP: $33.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
