Rural Communities

During China's Cultural Revolution, Chairman Mao Zedong's rustication program resettled 17 million urban youths, known as sent downs, to the countr...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Most people think I save dogs, but really they saved me. Niall Harbison i...

Places of worship are the true building blocks of communities where people of various genders, age, and class interact with each other on a regular...

Places of worship are the true building blocks of communities where people of various genders, age, and class interact with each other on a regular...

Famine Relief in Warlord China is a reexamination of disaster responses during the greatest ecological crisis of the pre-Nationalist Chinese republ...

The chapters in this international collection investigate a wide range of theorizations of rurality and literacy; literate practices and pedagogies...

The International Bestseller 'A love story to the mountains in the mist, the pulsating northern lights and the red deer at dawn. And to independenc...

In his first book, Time to Talk, Michael Healy-Rae established himself as part of the great tradition of Kerry storytellers with his chronicles of ...

Health-related disparities remain a persistent, serious problem across the nation's more than 60 million rural residents. Rural Populations and Hea...

This study focuses upon governance and social organisation within the Chinese village and explores the extent to which farmers have autonomy vis-à-...

How second homeowners strategically leverage their privilege across multiple spacesIn recent decades, Americans have purchased second homes at unpr...

How second homeowners strategically leverage their privilege across multiple spacesIn recent decades, Americans have purchased second homes at unpr...

READ THE EMOTIONAL NEW NOVEL FROM BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THURSDAYS IN THE PARK AND THE ESCAPE Perfect for fans of Faith Hogan, Cathy Bramley and Li...

In a food industry shaped by the abundance, cheapness, and convenience that giant corporations can offer, small-­scale ventures struggle to survive...

LONGLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE Eye-opening and persuasive SUNDAY TIMES ...

This book is a reprint of the original edited volume first published in 2004. In thirty-one chapters, the edited volume documents the exciting peri...

John Trist, Mr. Agriculture to Suffolk's farming community, was a crucial figure after the East Coast Sea Flood, orchestrating agricultural land re...

From the acclaimed author of How I Became a Tree, an enchanting and joyous exploration of life and creativity at the geographical edges of the mode...

Covering the period between the two world wars, the Second World War itself and the fifteen years that followed, The Deaf Doctor focuses primarily ...

Your next crime fiction obsession Michael WoodA missing child. A tormented detective. A ticking clock.Ten years ago, DCI Jack Logan stopped the ser...

The sociology of rural territory plays a crucial role due to the diversity of challenges in different rural contexts. Each rural area has unique ch...

It's 1986 and 29-year-old Marlo O'Sullivan of London-Irish stock has just found out that his sister is his mother. To steady his life, he moves to ...

Suburbanization, affordable housing, mass transportation, loss of fertile lands -- these are modern problems, yet they are not new. Thomas Adams gr...