Rural category: 418 books
Peasants under Siege
The Collectivization of Romanian Agriculture, 1949-1962
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2011
In 1949, Romania's fledgling communist regime unleashed a radical and brutal campaign to collectivize agriculture in this largely agrarian country, following the Soviet model. Peasants under Siege provides the first comprehensive look at the far-reaching social engineering process that ensued. Gail...
Where There Is No Midwife
Birth and Loss in Rural India
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2008
In the Sitapurdistrict of Uttar Pradesh, an agricultural region with high rates of infant mortality, maternal health services are poor while family planning efforts are intensive. By following the daily lives of women in this setting, the author considers the women’s own experiences of birth and...
Territorios en movimiento
Sistemas agroalimentarios localizados, innovación y gobernanza
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 13, 2017
"Territorios en movimiento. Sistemas agroalimentarios localizados, innovación y gobernanza" pretende enmarcar el debate sobre tres grandes temas de las ciencias sociales en la actualidad: el territorio, la cultura alimenticia y la gobernanza socio-económica, con sus conflictos y promesas...
by R. S. Attack
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Providing a firsthand account of the land enclosure movement of the 19th century from a major English poet, this extensively researched study gives modern readers an appreciation of the divisive effects of such policies. Structured chronologically, this exploration of John Clare’s life highlights...
Out Our Way
Gay and Lesbian Life in Rural Canada
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 1996
Michael Riordon celebrates the survival of ordinary, extraordinary people whose experiences are rarely reflected in the media. These stories of courage and humour were gathered in the course of two years and 27,000 kilometres of travel, and some three hundred in-person conversations.
by Tomson Highway
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2013
Canada’s most famous Aboriginal playwright, Tomson Highway, sets his latest theatrical achievement, The (Post) Mistress, in a not-so-distant past, when sending letters through the mail was still vital to communicating with friends and loved ones, and the small-town post office was often the only...
by Mary Berry, Wendell Berry, Wes Jackson
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
The collection of lectures and publications from the Schumacher Center for a New Economics represents some of the foremost voices on a new economics.
At the 36th Annual E. F. Schumacher Lectures Mary Berry–Executive Director of The Berry Center–moderated a conversation between Berry...
by G. C. Jones
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
G.C. "Red" Jones's classic memoir of growing up in rural eastern Kentucky during the Depression is a story of courage, persistence, and eventual triumph. His priceless and detailed recollections of hardscrabble farming, of the impact of Prohibition on an individualistic people, of the community-destroying...
Beast
Werewolves, Serial Killers, and Man-Eaters: The Mystery of the Monsters of the Gévaudan
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2016
A “gripping and suspenseful account” of a baffling killing spree in eighteenth-century France and the fear surrounding the mysterious “Beast of Gévaudan**” (Publishers Weekly).**
Something unimaginable occurred from 1764 to 1767 in the Gévaudan region of south central France. Over...
Horse-and-Buggy Genius
Listening to Mennonites Contest the Modern World
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
The history of the twentieth century is one of modernization, a story of old ways being left behind. Many traditionalist Mennonites rejected these changes, especially the automobile, which they regarded as a symbol of pride and individualism. They became known as a “horse-and-buggy” people. Between...
Tobacco Capitalism
Growers, Migrant Workers, and the Changing Face of a Global Industry
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2011
Tobacco Capitalism tells the story of the people who live and work on U.S. tobacco farms at a time when the global tobacco industry is undergoing profound changes. Against the backdrop of the antitobacco movement, the globalization and industrialization of agriculture, and intense debates over immigration,...
Wish You Were Here
Love & Longing in an American Heartland
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2016
Wish You Were Here offers a clear-eyed yet tender look at life in the modern Midwest from the perspective of a seventh-generation ruralite. Championing the romance of wide-open spaces in a rapidly urbanizing world, Zachary Michael Jack challenges the stereotypes of rural and small-town midwestern...
Hill Folks
A History of Arkansas Ozarkers and Their Image
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2003
The Ozark region, located in northern Arkansas and southern Missouri, has long been the domain of the folklorist and the travel writer--a circumstance that has helped shroud its history in stereotype and misunderstanding. With Hill Folks, Brooks Blevins offers the first in-depth historical treatment...
Public Policies for Food Sovereignty
Social Movements and the State
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
An increasing number of rural and urban-based movements are realizing some political traction in their demands for democratization of food systems through food sovereignty. Some are pressuring to institutionalize food sovereignty principles and practices through laws, policies, and programs. While...