Rural 50

By examining the metropolitan fringes of Houston in Montgomery County, Texas, and Washington, D.C., in Loudoun County, Virginia, this book combines rural, environmental, and agricultural history to ……続きを見る

In this book, conceived and written for the general reader as well as the specialist, Robert Edelman uses a case study of peasant behavior during a particular revolutionary situation to make an impo……続きを見る

Mobilizing for Development tackles the question of how countries achieve rural development and offers a new way of thinking about East Asia's political economy that challenges the developmental stat……続きを見る

2025 Outstanding Book Award by the Cultural and Political Ecology (CAPE) Specialty Group of the American Association of Geographers (AAG) Sweet Deal, Bitter Landscape brings us to the mid-2000s, whe……続きを見る

Bang Chan traces the changing cultural characteristics of a small Siamese village during the century and a quarter from its founding as a wilderness settlement outside Bangkok to its absorption into……続きを見る

In Singlewide**, Sonya Salamon and Katherine MacTavish explore the role of the trailer park as a source of affordable housing.** America's trailer parks, most in rural places, shelter an estimated 1……続きを見る

Through its history, populism has meant hope and progress, as well as hate and a desire to turn back the clock on American history. In her new preface, Catherine McNicol Stock provides an update and……続きを見る

This book examines the educational gaps that multilingual students in rural communities experience. It argues that responsive, successful relationships between schools and multilingual families are ……続きを見る

Sleepy rustic Carmarthenshire was secretly a hotbed of debauchery, violence and drunkenness according to Russell Davies in a new edition of his very successful book, Secret Sins. Behind the facade o……続きを見る

Despite the great changes that the twentieth century brought to the lives and roles of the women of rural Wales, there has been scant attention paid to the topic by social scientists and historians,……続きを見る

Existe una zona de la interrogación cultural contemporánea desde el sur que puede encontrar en el barullo histórico del movimiento Tupac Amaru de Jujuy (Argentina) caminos para repensar los modos de……続きを見る

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. Contrasting Wales’s policy on One Pl……続きを見る

This collection is a great contribution to the field of violence and security studies. It presents six comparative, cross-regional analyses of violence and security, with both theoretical contributi……続きを見る

The rural tourism sector has become a key driver for social and economic growth and a major source of income for developing and low-income countries in many parts of Asia. Rural tourism is progressi……続きを見る

Comment appréhender les phénomènes reliant faits de nature et faits de société qui constituent la majeure partie des problèmes critiques et irrésolus contemporains ? Comment dépasser le grand partag……続きを見る

Les territoires ruraux font l’objet de préoccupations spécifiques en matière de santé　: souvent considérés comme des «　déserts médicaux　», ils attirent de plus en plus l’attention des pouvoirs pu……続きを見る

This book proposes an innovative analysis of Olympic urban planning in general, and of Olympic Villages in particular, which will both consolidate the field of study that Olympic urban planning repr……続きを見る

The Bedagampana community, with its roots tracing back over 600 years, holds a significant historical and cultural legacy. Though originally from Srikalahasti, Andhra Pradesh, today they inhabit reg……続きを見る

Im Spannungsfeld einer Abwendung von herkömmlichen Raumauffassungen in Zeiten der Globalisierung sowie einer gleichzeitigen ‚Rückkehr‘ des Raumes in Form einer Sehnsucht nach (Selbst)Verortung lässt……続きを見る

Entre le hameau et la ville, le village. Chacun sait ce qu’est un village et l’identifie à une communauté locale, à un espace géographique, économique et politique. Or, il est évident qu’au-delà de ……続きを見る

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In Downeast, Gigi Georges follows five girls as they come of age in one of the most challenging and geographically isolated regions on the Eastern seaboard. Their stories reveal surprising truths ab……続きを見る

Rural life in North America has changed dramatically since the days of the family farm, when people worked the same land for generations, let their cows graze in pastures and their chickens scratch ……続きを見る

The book’s central theme is GUILT: how it’s a uniquely human idea, and whether this raises us higher or drags us lower than other animals; how guilt is disabling and why individuals and societies te……続きを見る

Bull City Summer: A Season At The Ballpark unites a group of documentarians around the 2013 season of minor league baseball in Durham, North Carolina, evoking an atmosphere described by The New York……続きを見る

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 de……続きを見る

In North America industrial agriculture has now virtually displaced diversified family farming. The prevailing system depends heavily on labor supplied by migrants and immigrants, and its reliance o……続きを見る

Made of the words of the people who live today in the beautiful, embattled countryside of Ulster, Irish Folk History is, in essence, the people's own statement of their past. In story, song, and spo……続きを見る

The world today is far less a global village than a “global city”, as global network of multidimensional urban spaces of congestion prominently forming – and also formed by – globalization. But the ……続きを見る

A obra que agora se publica nasceu do projecto “Dinâmicas Sociais na Estruturação dos Espaços políticos em Contextos Rurais Africanos”, no qual se analisaram, em termos comparativos, as dinâmicas so……続きを見る