Rural Communities

Punishing Places applies a unique spatial analysis to mass incarceration in the United States. It demonstrates that our highest imprisonment rates ...

'I fight hard and love strong. I'm a traveller.'Paddy Doherty loves his life as an Irish traveller, but as a child he felt like an outsider. He was...

Long a bastion of antigovernment feeling, the Ozark region today is home to fervent strains of conservative-influenced sentiment. Does rural herita...

Switzerland today is faced with a profound dilemma--its village life is dying, a casualty of the collision between communal norms and the need for ...

This is the first book to survey the experience of servants in rural Europe from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century. This is the first book t...

Witty, bawdy, and vicious, Ysuf al-Shirbns Brains Confounded pits the coarse rural masses against the refined urban population. In Volume One, al-S...

CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title, 2022How rural areas have become uneven proving grounds for the American Dream. Late-stage capitalism is trying t...

A sweeping historical and political analysis with detailed ethnographic fieldwork of the politics of everyday life in postcolonial Africa. In post...

A sweeping historical and political analysis with detailed ethnographic fieldwork of the politics of everyday life in postcolonial Africa. In post...

Shortlisted for the Saltire Society First Book of the Year Award Red kites were once Britains most common bird of prey. By the early 1900s they'd ...

In a political environment characterized by intense urban-rural polarization and growing hostility between cities and state legislatures, When Citi...

Turkey's contemporary struggles with Islam are often interpreted as a conflict between religion and secularism played out most obviously in the spl...

The South African government has prioritized a reduction of poverty and increased food security in rural parts of South Africa through agrarian tra...

Key to China's plans to promote rural development is the de-marginalisation of the countryside through the incorporation of rural areas into the ur...

Lavishly illustrated account of forty magnificent country houses, destroyed in the last century. The Lost Country Houses of Suffolk, well-research...

1935, Bacon County, Georgia. The bite of the Great Depression was beginning to be felt in the rest of America, but its teeth had been in Bacon Coun...

Migrant workers live in a transnational world that spans the boundaries of nation-states. Yet for undocumented workers, this world is complicated b...

Max Weber is widely recognized as the greatest of the founders of classical sociology. Yet whilst his thought is often associated with the developm...

Critical Rural Theory is an attempt to bring together the concepts of structure, space, and culture in order to explain the relationship between ru...

In 1970, the Architectural Press published New Lives, New Landscapes, Nan Fairbrother's optimistic account of how the British landscape was materia...

A critical exploration of how modernity and progress were imposed on the people and land of rural South Dakota The Rosebud Country, comprising four...

Long a bastion of antigovernment feeling, the Ozark region today is home to fervent strains of conservative-influenced sentiment. Does rural herita...

How prisons became economic development strategies for rural Appalachian communities As the United States began the project of mass incarceration, ...

Woodsqueer is sometimes used to describe the mindset of a person who has taken to the wild for an extended period of time. Gretchen Legler is no st...

Revelatory, lyrical and immersive, this is an extraordinary book that takes you deep into these ordinary women's worlds... Their stories are urgent...

Do you love someone enough to let them go?It was love at first sight when talented art student Felicity Flick Johnston-Hart and Jim MacDuffs worlds...

Turkey's contemporary struggles with Islam are often interpreted as a conflict between religion and secularism played out most obviously in the spl...

The emergence into pop culture of quaint and simple Ozarks Mountaineersthrough the writings of Vance Randolph, Wayman Hogue, Charles Morrow Wilson,...

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...

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...

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...

How were manorial lords in the twelfth and thirteenth century able to appropriate peasant labour? And what does this reveal about the changing atti...

Examines the commodification of land rights and the effect of international licences for resource extraction on the pastoral communities of Sudan. ...

'Outrageously Jilly Cooperesque' Sunday Times Style * Take a grand English country house, one (heartbroken) American divorcée, three rich wiv...

Mediterranean agriculture is by and large envisaged as a landscape of small farms of high nature value producing worldwide recognisable quality foo...

*A FOYLES TOP TEN READ FOR APRIL*A superb portrait of the complex imprint the countryside makes on the life of the mind A treasure Doireann Ní Ghr...

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