Rural Communities

This book studies recent developments in immigration in one Akha village in northern Thailand by examining issues such as the coffee economy, ethni...

'This is an essential and fascinating book because it brings to light, through conversations and nature walks, some of the buried connections betwe...

[A] welcome addition to the rural health care practitioner's tool kit. It will energize those interested in vulnerable rural residents and their un...

The first authoritative survey of the history of common land in Great Britain from the medieval period to present day. More than a million hectare...

This book is an antidote to the forms of American nationalism, masculinity, exceptionalism, and self-anointed prowess that are currently being flex...

Cities are possibly the most dynamic and important administrative units today. Cities play big roles in addressing many of the complex challenges t...

This volume seeks to answer modern questions and concerns regarding peasants, their production techniques, and their links to wider society. In the...

A challenge to prevailing ideas about innovation and a guide to identifying the best growth strategy for your community. Across the world, cities ...

Winner of Balsillie Prize for Public Policy Winner of Donner Prize A Summer Book of 2021, Financial Times Longlisted Financial Times and McKinsey B...

Sweet Deal, Bitter Landscape brings us to the mid-2000s, when the Tanzanian government struck a deal with a foreign investor to convert more than 2...

Sweet Deal, Bitter Landscape brings us to the mid-2000s, when the Tanzanian government struck a deal with a foreign investor to convert more than 2...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Presss mission to seek out and cultivate the b...

In the past decade, spanning from the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis to the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, rural poverty in the United...

A SUNDAY TELEGRAPH AND GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE YEARWINNER OF SWEDEN'S AUGUST PRIZEWINNER OF THE WARWICK PRIZE FOR WOMEN IN TRANSLATIONSHORTLISTED FOR ...

The widening gulf between rural and urban America is becoming the most serious political divide of our day. Support for Democrats, up and down the ...

RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEKTHE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'I couldn't put it down. . . an important book, raw and simple enough that you can't help but ...

'A woven time-travelling book, about love, land, life ... Short stories that link together like trees in a forest' Jackie MorrisOn a clear Kentuck...

Unmasked is the story of what happened in Okoboji, a small Iowan tourist town, when a collective turn from the coronavirus to the economy occurred ...