Rural category: 418 books
by Rodolfo Tello
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2016
One of the most widely used methods of socioeconomic data collection employed by international development and environmental conservation organizations is household surveys. The information gathered in such surveys is frequently used to support a variety of arguments, but the methodological aspects...
Global Heartland
Displaced Labor, Transnational Lives, and Local Placemaking
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2016
Global Heartland is the account of diverse, dispossessed, and displaced people brought together in a former sundown town in Illinois. Recruited to work in the local meat-processing plant, African Americans, Mexicans, and West Africans re-create the town in unexpected ways. Drawing on ethnographic...
The Islander. Complete and Unabridged A translation of An tOileánach
An account of life on the Great Blasket Island off the west coast of Kerry
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2012
This superb account of life on the Great Blasket Island off the west coast of Kerry, written as the nineteenth century draws to its close and the dawn of a new era trespasses on the lives of its small community, is both a shocking and captivating read.
Here is the first complete translation...
by John Branch
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
An NPR Book of the Year
A gripping portrait of one family’s gamble that rodeo and ranching are the future of the West—and not just its past.
For generations, the Wrights of southern Utah have raised cattle and world-champion saddle-bronc riders—some call them the most successful...
The Supreme Court
A C-SPAN Book Featuring the Justices in their Own Words
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2011
The Supreme Court grew out of an historic opportunity to interview all of the living Supreme Court justices for a C-SPAN feature documentary about the Court, the only time that the nine sitting members and their retired colleagues have granted interviews to a single television network. Eleven of those...
In Sight of Yellow Mountain
A Year in the Irish Countryside
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2017
‘This is The Good Life meets A Year in Provence’. Sue Collins, The Nualas
‘A luminous, funny and profound reading experience.’ Sebastian Barry
First, a dream of escaping the city… and then a century-old cottage to match the dream. Moving to a small village in the heart of the...
In the Blood
Understanding America's Farm Families
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
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. Who are America's farmers? Why is farming important to them? How are they coping with dramatic changes to their way of life? In the Blood paints a vivid and...
Reactions to the Market
Small Farmers in the Economic Reshaping of Nicaragua, Cuba, Russia, and China
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2010
It is manifest in developing countries around the world that the “shock” therapy administered to their economies by the neoliberal model of structural adjustment has failed, leaving much social and economic destruction in its wake. In Latin America this failure has led to a resurgence of interest...
Garbage Land
On the Secret Trail of Trash
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2007
Out of sight, out of mind ... Into our trash cans go dead batteries, dirty diapers, bygone burritos, broken toys, tattered socks, eight-track cassettes, scratched CDs, banana peels.... But where do these things go next? In a country that consumes and then casts off more and more, what actually happens...
Food Rebellions
Crisis and the Hunger for Justice
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
Today there are over a billion hungry people on the planet, more than ever before in history. While the global food crisis dropped out of the news in 2008, it returned in 2011 (and is threatening us again in 2012) and remains a painful reality for the world's poor and underserved. Why, in a time of record...
Thunder on the Mountain
Death at Massey and the Dirty Secrets Behind Big Coal
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
"Scathing exposé of the coal industry."
**--**The New York Times Book Review
On April 5, 2010, an explosion ripped through Massey Energy's Upper Big Branch Mine, killing twenty-nine coal miners. This tragedy was the deadliest mine disaster in the United States in forty years—a...
Going Driftless
Life Lessons from the Heartland for Unraveling Times
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Going Driftless is a book that explores a whole world within a world in the upper Midwest and looks at the nostalgia of small towns and local living (eating, shopping, etc.)—and asks how does it work what lessons can we learn from it.
by Michael S. Carolan
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
In this challenging work, the author argues that the goal of any food system should not simply be to provide the cheapest calories possible. A secure food system is one that affords people and nations – in both the present and future – the capabilities to prosper and lead long, happy, and healthy...
Mining Coal and Undermining Gender
Rhythms of Work and Family in the American West
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2014
Though mining is an infamously masculine industry, women make up 20 percent of all production crews in Wyoming’s Powder River Basin—the largest coal-producing region in the United States. How do these women fit into a working culture supposedly hostile to females? This is what anthropologist Jessica...