Rural Communities

'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...