Rural Communities

Examines local food movement activism in a period of increasing climate chaos and neoliberal crisis, economic inequalities and political divisions ...

A comprehensive analysis of stratification in rural Sri Lanka, taking into account the hierarchies of class, status and power.

In twenty-first-century China, socialist educational traditions have given way to practices that increasingly emphasize the individual. This volume...

From the No.1 bestselling author of The Shepherd's Life, a 'strange and enchanting' story of friendship and redemption on a remote Norwegian island...

How the migration of white southerners to the industrial Midwest reshaped American politics and societyOver the first two-thirds of the twentieth c...

How do societies negotiate the apparently competing agendas of environmental protection and social justice? Why do some countries perform much bett...

Although sadly neglected in English translation, George Sand was a monumentally important novelist of nineteenth-century France, and her works were...

The newest volume of the eclectic biannual anthology from Greenhorns, a grassroots network for recruiting, promoting, and supporting new American f...

Born in 1919, Josephine Powell visited Turkey for the first time in 1955 to photograph Byzantine mosaics. She then set out on her first comprehensi...

'Judys done it again. Every woman over a certain age should read this wonderful book' Jennifer Bohnet Deep in the Somerset countryside, the Combe P...

'Judys done it again. Every woman over a certain age should read this wonderful book' Jennifer Bohnet Deep in the Somerset countryside, the Combe P...

'Judys done it again. Every woman over a certain age should read this wonderful book' Jennifer Bohnet Deep in the Somerset countryside, the Combe P...

This Springer Brief presents a study that aims to identify the demand for cooking fuel at household level under different socio-economic conditions...

Originally published in 1948, and edited by the artist John Piper, An English Farmhouse is Geoffrey Grigson's careful survey of the old English far...

Gordon McLauchlan is a master storyteller adept at recognising a good yarn when he sees it. Following the success of his Great Tales from New Zeala...

We hadnt a clue til we got the telly and then we wanted to be like Dallas. We were never happy, that we knew of. We were always longing for somethi...

In the sequel to Seamus ORourkes popular first memoir, Standing in Gaps, this innocent Leitrim lad finally flees the nest, briefly sampling life in...

The rural tourism sector has become a key driver for social and economic growth and a major source of income for developing and low-income countrie...

Crowning the Year offers a practical guide to celebrating the key moments of the liturgical year in rural multi-church contexts. It considers the n...

Indian Village is widely considered a classic. Since its publication, over six decades ago, the book has received immense acclaim, attaining extrao...

Even though disaster losses frequently occur in rural and agricultural areas, a substantial number of the prevailing disaster research has focused ...

Nothing much ever happens in my Village in the Valley. We drift along peacefully ... A casual visitor to my Village in the Valley could be forgiven...

Chance brings together Nina Thomas and elderly Laura Chadwick just at the time when Laura is in need of a friend to help with an interfering family...