Rural Communities

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...

In Hard Luck and Heavy Rain Joseph C. Russo takes readers into the everyday lives of the rural residents of Southeast Texas. He encounters the regi...

First published in 1985, Technology and Rural Women synthesizes the fragmented empirical evidence and the wide range of theoretical approaches on t...

Part photo book, part memoir, part oral history project, this volume paints a vivid portrait of queer and trans experiences in rural areas and smal...

Andean communities occupy a special place in the history of anthropology, having given shape to fundamental theories of kinship, peasant economics,...

Andean communities occupy a special place in the history of anthropology, having given shape to fundamental theories of kinship, peasant economics,...

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 ...

Part photo book, part memoir, part oral history project, this volume paints a vivid portrait of queer and trans experiences in rural areas and smal...

We all have our little secrets...When the remains of a brutally murdered young woman are left hanging from the Glenfinnan Monument in the Highlands...

Which list are you on?When a young man is found frozen to death on a Highland street in mid-December, DCI Jack Logan initially puts it down to a Ch...

Just when he thought he was out...Burdened by guilt over the trauma recently inflicted on his friends and colleagues, former-Detective Chief Inspec...

The story behind the most iconic American photobooks of the twentieth century. In the late 1930s and early 1940s, the Farm Security Administration ...

The story behind the most iconic American photobooks of the twentieth century. In the late 1930s and early 1940s, the Farm Security Administration ...

Ever since the courtroom doors closed in 1919, the tragic Charlotte Streetcar Strike has haunted the collective memory of the Carolina Piedmont reg...

Rural tourism is not a new phenomenon in many parts of the world, but it has only recently received increased attention from researchers, politicia...

Your essential guide to not getting murdered in a quaint English village, where danger lurks around each cobblestoned corner and every bite of scon...

'Sherry is the modern-day meta Miss Marple that we all need in our lives.' Mur Lafferty'If you ever thought that all Cabot Cove really needed was a...

Migration to the cities had been a part of European rural life long before the start of modern industrialisation and urbanisation. In the era of mo...