著者:David Walbert
出版社: Oxford University Press
発売日: 2002年05月24日
Each year, millions of tourists are drawn to Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, to experience first-hand the quintessential pastoral--both as an escape from urban life and as a rare opportunity to beco……続きを見る
Papers included in this volume attempt at presenting two different but complementary approaches to the contemporary Andean culture through the works of their artists. The authors have focused their ……続きを見る
This book addresses two major issues in natural resource management and political ecology: the complex conflicting relationship between communities managing water on the ground and national/global p……続きを見る
著者:Jennifer Sherman
出版社: University of Minnesota Press
発売日: 2009年10月22日
When the rural poor prioritize issues such as the right to bear arms, and disapprove of welfare despite their economic concerns, they are often dismissed as uneducated and backward by academics and ……続きを見る
Die vielfältigen Lebens- und Arbeitsverhältnisse, die Frauen in ländlichen Regionen heutzutage zugänglich sind, bieten ihnen Möglichkeiten einer selbstbestimmten Lebensführung und der Verwirklichung……続きを見る
In Challenging Social Inequality, an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars and development workers explores the causes, consequences, and contemporary reactions to Brazil's sharply u……続きを見る
著者:E. F. Benson
出版社: Read Books Ltd.
発売日: 2015年04月24日
Lucia is the most popular and well read character written by E. F. Benson, there are six books in total, this volume contains the third and fourth instalments of this wonderfully satirical look at t……続きを見る
Addresses the politics of immigration, in the everyday lives of one community
National immigration debates have thrust both opponents of immigration and immigrant rights supporters into the news. Bu……続きを見る
This classic in the annals of village studies will be widely read and debated for what it reveals about China's rural dynamics as well as the nature of state power, markets, the military, social rel……続きを見る
著者:Rhonda F. Levine
出版社: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
発売日: 2001年06月13日
This book documents a little-known aspect of the Jewish experience in America. It is a fascinating account of how a group of Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany came to dominate cattle dealing in sout……続きを見る
Mémoires d'un paysan au contact des évolutions techniques agricoles
Guy Jussian est fier d’être un paysan. Né en 1934 dans un village au pied du Luberon, il a travaillé la terre toute sa vie, sur le……続きを見る
著者:April Linton
出版社: University of Washington Press
発売日: 2012年09月01日
Fair Trade promises to raise living standards in developing countries through:
- worldwide minimum prices for commodities
- support for democratically governed cooperatives
- requirement of minimum ……続きを見る
Selling milk and cream was an integral way of life on the Canadian Prairies in the early to mid-1900s. On many farms, the women were in charge of milking the cows, separating the cream from the milk……続きを見る
著者:Antonio Sorge
出版社: University of Toronto Press
発売日: 2015年07月10日
The inhabitants of highland Sardinia proudly declare a long history of resistance to outside authority. Many even celebrate the belief that “not even the Roman Empire reached this far.” Yet, since t……続きを見る
“One problem with the food system is that price is the bottom line rather than having the bottom line be land stewardship, an appreciation for the environmental and social value of small-scale famil……続きを見る
Building on their analysis in Sociology in Government (Penn State, 2003), Julie Zimmerman and Olaf Larson again join forces across the generations to explore the unexpected inclusion of rural and fa……続きを見る
著者:Robert Wuthnow
出版社: Princeton University Press
発売日: 2015年09月01日
A vivid and moving portrait of America's farm families
Farming is essential to the American economy and our daily lives, yet few of us have much contact with farmers except through the food we eat. ……続きを見る
著者:Seleshi Sisaye
出版社: Taylor and Francis
発売日: 2015年08月11日
Accounting literature has viewed sustainability in terms of social, economic and environmental performances. There have been concerns that the relationship between sustainability, accounting and org……続きを見る
著者:Jerry Apps
出版社: Wisconsin Historical Society Press
発売日: 2015年08月17日
"I'm embarrassed to say I thought I knew anything substantial about Wisconsin agriculture or its history before I read this book. 'Wisconsin Agriculture' should be required reading in history classe……続きを見る
The twentieth century was one of profound transformation in rural America. Demographic shifts and economic restructuring have conspired to alter dramatically the lives of rural people and their comm……続きを見る
著者:Patricia Allen
出版社: Penn State University Press
発売日: 2015年08月26日
Everywhere you look people are more aware of what they eat and where their food comes from. In a cafeteria in Los Angeles, children make their lunchtime food choices at fresh-fruit and salad bars st……続きを見る
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 sociolo……続きを見る
This book is a critical examination of the place and role of land in Africa, the role of land in political formation and national identification, and the land as an economic resource within both nat……続きを見る
This book focuses on rural-urban migrants in China. They are one of the most vulnerable and disadvantaged groups in the country but are essential to the country's industrialization and urbanization.……続きを見る
著者:Janelle Collins
出版社: University of Arkansas Press
発売日: 2015年11月16日
Inspired by the Arkansas Review’s “What Is the Delta?” series of articles, Defining the Delta collects fifteen essays from scholars in the sciences, social sciences, and humanities to describe and d……続きを見る
Since the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 was enacted, policy makers, agency administrators, community activists, and academics from a broad range of discipli……続きを見る
著者:John Jennings
出版社: University of Calgary Press
発売日: 2015年11月23日
The cowboy, as perhaps no other figure, has captured the imagination of North Americans for over a century. Before Owen Wister's publication of The Virginian in 1902, the image of the cowboy was ess……続きを見る
Much of the literature on globalization has centered on the large, macro-level forces that influence the ways ideas, people, and various forms of capital move around the world. From this vantage poi……続きを見る
Community leadership development programs are designed to increase the capacity of citizens for civic engagement. These programs fill gaps in what people know about governance and the processes of g……続きを見る
著者:Stephen Moss
出版社: Random House
発売日: 2016年04月07日
Shortlisted for THE WAINWRIGHT BOOK PRIZE 2017
Can Britain make room for wildlife? Stephen Moss believes it can.
The newspaper headlines tell us that Britain’s wildlife is in trouble. It’s not just ……続きを見る