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  • The Plain Reader
    Scott Savage
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    Disponible

    16,83 €

  • Cutting Into the Meatpacking Line
    Deborah Fink
    The nostalgic vision of a rural Midwest populated by independent family farmers hides the reality that rural wage labor has been integral to the region’s development, says Deborah Fink. Focusing on the porkpacking industry in Iowa, Fink investigates the experience of the rural working class and highlights its significance in shaping the state’s economic, political, and social c...
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    70,84 €

  • Mixed Harvest
    Hal S. Barron / Hal SBarron
    Mixed Harvest explores rural responses to the transformation of the northern United States from an agricultural society into an urban and industrial one. According to Hal S. Barron, country people from New England to North Dakota negotiated the rise of large-scale organizational society and consumer culture in ways marked by both resistance and accommodation, change and continu...
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    60,82 €

  • Fields Without Dreams
    Victor Davis Hanson
    America’s disappearing family farmer is often portrayed as either a figure of pitiable tragedy or glorified romance. But in one of the most unusual books ever written on farming, farmer and Greek scholar Victor Davis Hanson eloquently explains how neither portrait conveys what really matters about farming. As the family farm all but vanishes in our nation, it is neither food pr...
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    19,00 €

  • Revealing Rural 'Others'
    Paul Milbourne
    A collection of 11 papers on issues of representation, power and identity within the British countryside. Researchers in this area have looked beyond the ideas of tradition, power, order and conformity, to groups who feel themselves to be marginalized or excluded from the dominant ideologies in the countryside, such as New Age travellers, road protestors, anti-hunt groups, smal...
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    160,87 €

  • Good Neighborhoods
    Sidney Brower
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    121,86 €

  • Feeding a Hungry Planet
    James Lang
    Rice is the food crop the world depends on most. In Feeding a Hungry Planet, James Lang demonstrates how research has benefited rice growers and increased production. He describes the life cycle of a rice crop and explains how research is conducted and how the results end up growing in a farmer’s field. Focusing on Asia and Latin America, Lang explores lowland and upland rice s...
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    54,76 €

  • Community Strategic Visioning Programs
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    121,82 €

  • After The Ruins
    Hugh Clout / Hugh Prof. Clout
    After the Ruins uses both official and unofficial records to explore a relatively ignored aspect of recent rural history: how the fields, farms, villages and market towns of Northern France were restored during the 1920s in the aftermath of the Great War. ...
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    116,52 €

  • Rural Cooperatives in Socialist Utopia
    Gideon Kressel / Moshe M. Schwartz / Moshe MSchwartz
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    121,64 €

  • Sustaining Agriculture and Rural Communities
    Covers a variety of topics in research in rural sociology and development. ...
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    177,12 €

  • Prairie Patrimony
    Sonya Salamon
    Drawing on a decade-long ethnographic study of seven Illinois farming communities, Salamon demonstrates how family land transfers serve as the mechanism fro recreating the social relations fundamental to midwestern ethnic identities. She shows how, along with the land, families pass on a cultural patrimony that shapes practices of farm management, succession, and inheritance an...
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    60,81 €

  • Food and Agrarian Orders in the World-Economy
    . . . emergence of a world-economy depends on the reorganization of agriculture and food systems . . . ...
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    121,36 €

  • The Transformation of Rural Life
    Jane Adams
    Jane Adams focuses on the transformation of rural life in Union County, Illinois, as she explores the ways in which American farming has been experienced and understood in the twentieth century. Reconstructing the histories of seven farms, she places the details of daily life within the context of political and economic change. Adams identifies contradictions that, on a persona...
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    70,46 €

  • Appalachia in an International Context
    Phillip Obermiller / William Philliber
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    121,60 €

  • Staying Put
    Scott Russell Sanders
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    17,01 €

  • Entitled to Power
    Katherine Jellison
    The advent of modern agribusiness irrevocably changed the patterns of life and labor on the American family farm. In Entitled to Power, Katherine Jellison examines midwestern farm women’s unexpected response to new labor-saving devices. Federal farm policy at mid-century treated farm women as consumers, not producers. New technologies, as promoted by agricultural extension...
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    64,40 €

  • The Land That Feeds Us
    John F. Hart / John FHart
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    21,41 €

  • American Dreams, Rural Realities
    Peggy F. Barlett / Peggy FBarlett
    Using Dodge County, Georgia, as a case study, Peggy Barlett reveals consumerism, individualism, and short-term decision making as the greatest threats to the family farm. 'This book is of value not only to students of agriculture and rural sociology but also to city dwellers attempting to understand the lure and frustration of family farming.--Choice 'An excellent, well-writt...
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    70,55 €

  • Diffusion Research in Rural Sociology
    Frederick Fliegel
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    Disponible

    95,96 €

  • Rural Health Care
    Lavonne Straub / Norman Walzer
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    121,66 €

  • The English Rural Community
    Brian Short
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    Disponible

    40,64 €

  • Rural Process-Pattern Relationships
    David Grossman
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    121,71 €

  • Rural Poverty in America
    Cynthia M. Duncan / Cynthia MDuncan
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    121,25 €

  • Household Strategies
    Household Strategies ...
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    200,74 €

  • The Community in Rural America
    Kenneth P. Wilkinson / Kenneth PWilkinson
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    141,77 €

  • China’s Peasants
    Jack M. Potter / Jack MPotter / Sulamith H. Potter / Sulamith HPotter
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    Disponible

    69,06 €

  • Population and Community in Rural America
    Authur Goldsmith / Lorraine Garkovich
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    Disponible

    44,56 €

  • Rural Society Early Modern Ger
    Robisheaux Thomas / Thomas Willard Robisheaux
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    Disponible

    145,04 €

  • Rural Sociology and the Environment
    Donald R. Field / Donald RField / William R. Burch / William RBurch
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    96,01 €


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