Rural category: 418 books
Hillbilly Women
Struggle and Survival in Southern Appalachia
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
“This book tells what it means to be a woman when you are poor, when you are proud, and when you are a hillbilly.”
First published in 1973, Skye Moody’s Hillbilly Women shares the stunning and raw oral histories of nineteen women in twentieth-century Southern Appalachia, from their day-to-day...
Ghost Dances
Proving Up on the Great Plains
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Growing up in South Dakota, Josh Garrett-Davis knew he would leave. But as a young adult, he kept going back--in dreams and reality and by way of books. With this beautifully written narrative about a seemingly empty but actually rich and complex place, he has reclaimed his childhood, his unusual...
by Judy J. Blunt, Nancy Smith
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2016
“A memoir with the fierce narrative force of an eastern Montana blizzard, rich in story and character, filled with the bone-chilling details of Blunt’s childhood. She writes without bitterness, with an abiding love of the land and the work and her family and friends that she finally left behind,...
Methland
The Death and Life of an American Small Town
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
A New York Times Bestseller
Winner of the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize
Winner of the Hillman Prize for Book Journalism
Named a best book of the year by:
the Los Angeles Times
the San Francisco Chronicle
the Saint Louis Post-Dispatch
the Chicago Tribune
the Seattle Times
"A stunning...
by Eva Hoffman
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2007
In Shtetl (Yiddish for "small town"), critically-acclaimed author Eva Hoffman brings the lost world of Eastern European Jews back to vivid life, depicting its complex institutions and vibrant culture, its beliefs, social distinctions, and customs. Through the small town of Braƒsk, she looks...
Distributist Perspectives: Volume II
Essays on the Economics of Justice and Charity
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2008
This compilation of important distributist authors delivers valuable insight into the manifest problems of society. Although most of the contributions were written more than 50 years ago, the questions raised by the writers have remained largely unanswered, and essays regarding topics like education,...
Sociology (Routledge Revivals)
A guide to problems and literature
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2010
First published in 1962, this seminal work is an introduction to sociology in a world context, and a sophisticated guide to the major themes, problems and controversies in contemporary sociology. The book remains unique in its organisation and presentation of sociological ideas and problems, in it...
Social Development (Routledge Revivals)
Its Nature and Conditions
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
Originally published in 1924, Professor Hobhouse's theories and commentaries upon social development are an important milestone in the history of sociological thought. Of particular interest to the modern sociologist is his delineation of the struggle of the human mind towards rationality in thought...
Deer Hunting with Jesus
Dispatches from America's Class War
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2008
Years before Hillbilly Elegy and White Trash, a raucous, truth-telling look at the white working poor -- and why they have learned to hate liberalism. What it adds up to, he asserts, is an unacknowledged class war.
By turns tender, incendiary, and seriously funny, this book is a call to arms...
Like a Family
The Making of a Southern Cotton Mill World
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2012
Since its original publication in 1987, Like a Family has become a classic in the study of American labor history. Basing their research on a series of extraordinary interviews, letters, and articles from the trade press, the authors uncover the voices and experiences of workers in the Southern cotton...
by Ant Hive Media
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2016
This is a Summary of J.D. Vance's Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture In Crisis#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFrom a former marine and Yale Law School graduate, a powerful account of growing up in a poor Rust Belt town that offers a broader, probing look at the struggles...
Shit Magnet
One Man's Miraculous Ability to Absorb the World's Guilt
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2016
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 tend to scapegoat; how the act of blaming the enemy and slaying him is history’s propulsive force; and my miraculous ability to redeem others by absorbing guilt from them.
The Shell Country Alphabet
The Classic Guide to the British Countryside
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2009
In the 1960s Geoffrey Grigson travelled around England writing the story of the secret landscape that is all around us, if only we take the time to look and see. The result is a book that will take you on an imaginative journey, revealing hidden stories, unexpected places and strange phenomena.
From...
Appalachia
A History
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2003
Interweaving social, political, environmental, economic, and popular history, John Alexander Williams chronicles four and a half centuries of the Appalachian past. Along the way, he explores Appalachia's long-contested boundaries and the numerous, often contradictory images that have shaped perceptions...