Rural category: 418 books
The Foxfire Book of Simple Living
Celebrating Fifty Years of Listenin', Laughin', and Learnin'
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2016
First published in 1972, The Foxfire Book was a surprise bestseller that brought Appalachia's philosophy of simple living to hundreds of thousands of readers. Whether you wanted to hunt game, bake the old-fashioned way, or learn the art of successful moonshining, The Foxfire Museum and Heritage Center...
Travels with Foxfire
Stories of People, Passions, and Practices from Southern Appalachia
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2018
Since 1972, the Foxfire books have preserved and celebrated the culture of Southern Appalachia for hundreds of thousands of readers. In Travels with Foxfire, native son Phil Hudgins and Foxfire student Jessica Phillips travel from Georgia to the Carolinas, Tennessee to Kentucky, collecting the stories...
Small-Town America
Finding Community, Shaping the Future
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2013
More than thirty million Americans live in small, out-of-the-way places. Many of them could have joined the vast majority of Americans who live in cities and suburbs. They could live closer to more lucrative careers and convenient shopping, a wider range of educational opportunities, and more robust...
We Are As Gods
Back to the Land in the 1970s on the Quest for a New America
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
Between 1970 and 1974 ten million Americans abandoned the city, and the commercialism, and all the inauthentic bourgeois comforts of the Eisenhower-era America of their parents. Instead, they went back to the land. It was the only time in modern history that urbanization has gone into reverse.
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by Elizabeth Catte
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
In 2016, headlines declared Appalachia ground zero for America's "forgotten tribe" of white working class voters. Journalists flocked to the region to extract sympathetic profiles of families devastated by poverty, abandoned by establishment politics, and eager to consume cheap campaign...
Farm Workers in Western Canada
Injustices and Activism
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2017
Bill 6, the government of Alberta’s contentious farm workers’ safety legislation, sparked public debate as no other legislation has done in recent years. The Enhanced Protection for Farm and Ranch Workers Act provides a right to work safely and a compensation system for those killed or injured...
by E.A. Preobrazhensky
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
This title was first published in 1985.
Land Reforms and Natural Resource Conflicts in Africa
New Development Paradigms in the Era of Global Liberalization
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2015
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 national economic development and liberal globalization. Colonial and post-colonial conflicts have been...
Between the Guerrillas and the State
The Cocalero Movement, Citizenship, and Identity in the Colombian Amazon
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
Responding to pressure from the United States, the Colombian government in 1996 intensified aerial fumigation of coca plantations in the western Amazon region. This crackdown on illicit drug cultivation sparked an uprising among the region’s cocaleros, small-scale coca producers and harvest workers....
The Moral Economy of the Peasant
Rebellion and Subsistence in Southeast Asia
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 1977
Water Policy, Imagination and Innovation
Interdisciplinary Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2017
This book explores creative interdisciplinary and potentially transformative solutions to the current stalemate in contemporary water policy design. A more open policy conversation about water than exists at present is proposed – one that provides a space for the role of the imagination and is inclusive...
Under the Influence
A Case Study of the Elks, MADD, and DUI Policy
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2015
What are the potentially negative consequences of an undeniably good public policy? Under the Influence examines how the Elks, one of the oldest lodge-based voluntary associations in America, may have been impacted by government policies such as DUI laws. To examine this empirically, author John C....
by Peter A. Jackson, Susan J. Smith
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
Exploring Social Geography, first published in 1984, offers a challenging yet comprehensive introduction to the wealth of empirical research and theoretical debate that has developed in response to the advent of a social approach to the subject. The argument emphasises the essentially spatial structure...
Get Onboard
Walk In The Shoes Of A Transit Operator
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Success and promotion within Toronto's public transportation system come at a price. The shifts bring both physical and mental stress. The effects of these seep from work life into the social and personal lives of the operators. Parallel to this is the author's own personal story, a moving portrayal...