Rural category: 418 books
by Romulus Linney
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1993
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1993
Uniquely adept at capturing the idiomatic poetry of his native South, Linney maneuvers with equal grace through the vernacular of New York's contemporary intelligentsia and the voices of a wide range of historical figures. "...one of our most perceptive chroniclers of the folkways of rural America,...
Mieres Reborn
The Reinvention of a Catalan Community
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2012
Mieres Reborn reveals how patient observation and an analysis of one small community have much to tell us about human progress more generally.
Not long ago Mieres, a village in the eastern foothills of the Pyrenees, seemed destined to die. As in countless thousands of rural communities...
Prairie Patrimony
Family, Farming, and Community in the Midwest
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
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. She shows how, along with the land, families pass on a cultural...
La maison rurale en pays d'habitat dispersé
de l'Antiquité au XXe siècle
Language: French
Release Date: July 8, 2015
Cet ouvrage fait le point sur les connaissances relatives à l'habitat rural en pays d'habitat dispersé. L'objectif est de travailler sur un objet concret et fort répandu – la maison rurale – et de le traiter dans la très longue durée, de l'Antiquité à la période contemporaine, à la fois...
Geographical Indication and Global Agri-Food
Development and Democratization
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2019
This book addresses the relevance of geographical indication (GI) as a tool for local and socio-economic development and democratization of agri-food, with case studies from Asia, Europe and the Americas.
A geographical indication is a sign used on products that have a specific geographical...
Irish Folk History
Tales from the North
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2017
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 spontaneous essay, these texts, selected from Passing the Time in Ballymenone, tell of the coming of Christianity,...
Canary in the Coal Mine
A Doctor, His Faith, and the Town that Signaled America's Opioid Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2019
A remarkable story of how a doctor's faith-in-action in rural Indiana helped shine the light on America's opioid epidemic.
Dr. William Cooke, Indiana's Family Physician of the Year, was recently on the front lines of one of America's most devastatingly concentrated outbreaks of HIV, fueled...
The Social Economy of Single Motherhood
Raising Children in Rural America
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
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 changed over the past fifty years as factory work has dried up and national chains like Walmart have moved in.
La Vie de mon père
édition intégrale
Language: French
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Considéré par son auteur comme l'écrit le plus estimable qu'il eût produit, cette biographie vivante du père de Restif, laboureur bourguignon doté de quatorze enfants, reste une des peintures les plus précises de la condition paysanne peu avant la Révolution et une excellente source de renseignements...
Figures du métayage
Étude comparée de contrats agraires (Mexique)
Language: French
Release Date: June 8, 2017
Alors que la question foncière est revenue au premier plan des politiques publiques dans de nombreux pays du Sud, les pratiques foncières et les logiques d'acteurs qui les sous-tendent restent largement méconnues. Cet ouvrage contribue à combler cette lacune par la description et l'interprétation...
Campagnes contemporaines
Enjeux économiques et sociaux des espaces ruraux français
Language: French
Release Date: August 25, 2016
La représentation des campagnes dans l’espace public est ambivalente. L’adjectif rural qualifie-t-il un espace de production agricole, un univers bucolique, des territoires « périphériques » ? À distance de visions uniformisées ou de l’urgence médiatique, cet ouvrage met en lumière...
La multifonctionnalité de l'agriculture
Une dialectique entre marché et identité
Language: French
Release Date: November 24, 2008
Cet ouvrage analyse les fondements juridiques, économiques et sociologiques de la multifonctionnalité agricole. Après avoir resitué celle-ci dans une perspective historique, les auteurs s'interrogent sur le débat international et les transformations en cours (sécurité alimentaire, aménagement...
El territorio como poder y potencia
Relatos del piedemonte araucano
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 4, 2017
"Bien es sabido que los modelos de desarrollo rural implementados en Colombia por las instituciones políticas, los gobiernos y los gremios económicos no han hecho sostenibles los territorios rurales, ya que persisten la pobreza, el analfabetismo, el difícil acceso a la propiedad por parte...
by Rick Bragg
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2010
With the same emotional generosity and effortlessly compelling storytelling that made All Over But the Shoutin’ a national bestseller, Rick Bragg continues his personal history of the Deep South. This time he’s writing about his grandfather Charlie Bundrum, a man who died before Bragg was born...