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  • Engaging with Strangers
    Debra McDougall
    'In this compelling and often entrancing ethnography, McDougall analyzes what she calls ’stranger sociality’-that is, how the people of Ranongga, Solomon Islands have embraced and incorporated outsiders over the course of 200 years.' · Holly Wardlow, University of Toronto'An excellent book. Its high quality is multifaceted, and it will be of great interest to a number of import...
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    184,01 €

  • Évolution des systèmes fonciers au Mali
    Bakary Camara
    The book highlights, the gradual change in the status of the land and relationships with land in Mali in general and in the Niger river basin in particular. It is suggested that despite these inevitable transformations, institutional reforms need to be measured. They must be done in a prudent, methodical way with patience and determination while taking into account certain real...
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    57,93 €

  • Environment, Agriculture and Cross-border Migrations
    Emmanuel Yenshu Vubo
    This book brings together contributions on the challenges of the environment, agriculture and cross-border migrations in Africa; key areas that have become critical for the continent’s development. The central theme running through these contributions is that Africa’s development challenges can be attributed to its human and natural ecology. Contrasted with the Cold War epoch, ...
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    46,17 €

  • The Methodology of Political Economy
    The importance of the global rural-urban matrix is often overlooked due to urban-normativity. But sometimes agrarian populism and a pastoral rural imaginary result in the equally fallacy of a rural-normativity, as in Jeffersonian nostalgia for a lost way of life that never existed. The nature of rurality in North America is important to study, but as Alessandro Bonanno makes cl...
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    148,28 €

  • Nation-Building and Community in Israel
    Dorothy Willner
    The author approaches the intricate process of nation-building in Israel through an examination of transformations which took place within a major development sector, rural land settlement, during Israel’s first decade of statehood. Based on four years of observation in Israel, the study analyzes the ways in which this state worked out the urgent problems that confront a new na...
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    100,08 €

  • SOCIAL INTEGRATION OF RURAL-URBAN MIGRANTS IN CHINA
    Marcus W Feldman / Shuzhuo Li / Zhongshan Yue
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    137,61 €

  • Gender, Politics and Land Use in Zimbabwe 1980-2012
    Enna S. Gudhlanga / Enna SGudhlanga / Norman Manyeruke / Onias Mafa
    The agrarian reform dynamics in southern Africa have to be understood within the framework of colonial land policies and legislation that were designed essentially to expropriate land and natural resource property rights from the indigenous people in favour of the white settlers. Colonial land policies institutionalised racial inequity with regard to land although conditions ar...
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    58,47 €

  • Rural Young Women, Education, and Socio-Spatial Mobility
    Wendy Geller
    Much of the literature on globalization has centered on the large, macro-level forces that influence the ways ideas, people, and various forms of capital move around the world. From this vantage point, discussions about the progressive feminization of migration, in particular the feminization of out-migration from rural areas, indicate an intriguing trend. Simultaneously, the l...
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    157,93 €

  • Coffee Time
    Mary Njeri Kinyanjui
    In Coffee Time, Mary Njeri Kinyanjui uses her childhood experiences in a rural coffee farm to show the struggles that farmers go through to earn a living. They linger in poverty as intermediaries along the coffee value chain rake huge profits. It is a story of trade injustice in an asymmetrical world. ...
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    28,85 €

  • Alternative countrysides
    Jeremy MacClancy
    A fresh anthropological look at a central but neglected topic, the profound changes in rural life throughout Western Europe today. As locals leave for jobs in cities they are replaced by a variety of incomers, including neo-hippies, lifestyle-seekers, eco-activists, and rural labour migrants from beyond the EU. ...
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    169,99 €

  • Wandering Workers. Mores, Behavior, Way of Life, and Political Status of Domestic Russian Labor Migrants
    Juri Plusnin
    This timely book offers a fresh perspective on the issue of contemporary migratory labor, otkhodnichestvo, in Russia-the temporary departure of inhabitants from small towns and villages for short-term jobs in the major cities of Russia. Although otkhodnichestvo is a mass phenomenon, it is not reflected in official economic statistics. Based on numerous interviews with otkhod...
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    51,45 €

  • Living with Uncertainty
    Setsuko Shibuya
    This book is one of the first ethnographies written on the life of farmers in rural Southern Vietnam since the economic reform in the 1980s. It investigates how social, economic and political factors affect the farmers’ life in the Mekong Delta in the late socialist era with a particularly focus on the family, which serves as the basic and most significant social unit for the f...
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    49,34 €

  • Under the Influence
    John C Mero / John C. Mero / John CMero
    What are the potentially negative consequences of an undeniably good public policy? Under the Influence examines how the Elks, one of the oldest lodge-based voluntary associations in America, may have been impacted by government policies such as DUI laws. To examine this empirically, author John C. Mero conducted interviews with fifty-five California and Florida Elk Exalted Rul...
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    93,52 €

  • Constructing Communities in the Late Roman Countryside
    Cam Grey
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    48,34 €

  • Constructing a new framework for rural development
    This book critically discusses these new practices and the actors engaged in them. In doing so, it deals with several countries in three different continents (Asia, South America and Europe). It proposes new concepts and approaches for a better understanding of the re-emergence of peasants as indispensable part of modern societies. ...
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    251,58 €

  • Memoirs of a Surrey Labourer
    George Bourne
    This work by George Bourne, a pseudonym of George Sturt, was originally published in 1907. George Sturt ran a wheelwright’s shop in the town of Farnham, in Surrey, but was also a keen writer, producing one novel and several other books on English rural life. This particular work relates the anecdotes and life of Sturt’s gardener, Frederick Bettesworth. He presents loving recoll...
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    18,29 €

  • Change in the Village
    George Bourne
    This work by George Bourne, a pseudonym of George Sturt, was originally published in 1912. George Sturt ran a wheelwright’s shop in the town of Farnham, in Surrey, but was also a keen writer, producing one novel and several other books on English rural life. This particular work is a wonderful recording of English rural life at the turn of the twentieth century, focussing on th...
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    17,28 €

  • TVA and the Grass Roots
    Philip Selznick
    Presented in a modern, library-quality, and authorized hardcover edition from Quid Pro Books, TVA AND THE GRASS ROOTS is the famous and influential study of politics in action at all levels in the creation and expansion of the Tennessee Valley Authority -- with all its land use, agricultural, political and human effects. Landmark application of political and social theory coupl...
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    41,72 €

  • Getting Away with Murder
    Vanessa A. Holloway / Vanessa A. Holloway / Vanessa AHolloway
    Throughout the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, the U.S. Congress engaged in bitter debates on whether to enact a federal law that would prosecute private citizens who lynched black Americans. In Getting Away with Murder, the fundamental question under scrutiny is whether Southern Democrats’ racist attitudes toward black Americans pardoned the atrocities of lynching...
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    50,64 €

  • Alternative Agrifood Movements
    This volume explores the issues of convergence and divergence in alternative agrifood movements through a theoretical and empirical engagement of the topic by notable agrifood researchers from Europe, North America and South America. ...
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    265,41 €

  • Global Villages
    Ger Duijzings
    ’Global Villages: Rural and Urban Transformations in Contemporary Bulgaria’ aims to broaden the study of globalization from urban to rural contexts, exploring its effects through case studies from postsocialist Bulgaria. ...
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    57,54 €

  • Gender, Work, and Harness Racing
    Elizabeth Anne Larsen
    While gender equality has progressed in many sports since the second wave of the feminist movement in terms of women’s inclusion, participation, and success, harness horse racing has been recalcitrant to change. Gender, Work, and Harness Racing: Fast Horses and Strong Women in Southwestern Pennsylvania investigates the stories of women involved in harness racing to expose how t...
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    132,04 €

  • Why Rural Schools Matter
    Mara Casey Tieken
    From headlines to documentaries, urban schools are at the center of current debates about education. From these accounts, one would never know that 51 million Americans live in rural communities and depend on their public schools to meet not only educational but also social and economic needs. For many communities, these schools are the ties that bind. Why Rural Schools Matter...
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    48,05 €

  • SEVA to Realize the SELF
    Mahesh C. Mangalick / Mahesh CMangalick
    In villages around India, many people have no facilities that provide adequate health care and education, despite the Indian government allocating an enormous amount of funding. In order to offset this lack of health care and educational facilities in Indian villages, many private individuals and organizations provide medical services and educational opportunities to the poor. ...
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    51,90 €

  • Aging in Rural Places
    Elaine T. MSW PhD Jurkowski / Elaine TMSW PhD Jurkowski / John A. PhD Krout / John APhD Krout / Kristina M. PhD MSW Hash / Kristina MPhD MSW Hash
    Research documents that rural elders are poorer, live in less adequate housing, and have far fewer health and service options available to them than their urban counterparts, yet there is a critical lack of current and detailed information on the problems facing rural elders and on the professional practices that serve this population. This text fills this gap by introducing re...
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    100,67 €

  • England
    Johann Wilhelm von Archenholtz / Lois EBueler
    J. W. von Archenholtz’s England is a political and sociological description of Great Britain during the second half of the 18th century. Based primarily on Archenholtz’s firsthand observations from 1769 to 1779, England looks with precision and anecdotal detail at the behavior of Britons of all ranks. Never without an attitude, Archenholtz conveys a wide range of topics from de...
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    149,13 €

  • Lucia in London and Mapp and Lucia
    E. F. Benson / EFBenson
    Lucia is the most popular and well read character written by E. F. Benson, there are six books in total, this volume contains the third and fourth instalments of this wonderfully satirical look at the petty squabbling and brinkmanship in the social circles in a small English village. These two novels, originally published in 1927 and 1931, are being republished here together wi...
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    45,05 €

  • Human Rights and the Third World
    Human Rights and the Third World: Issues and Discourses deals with the controversial questions on the universalistic notions of human rights. It finds Third World perspectives on human rights and seeks to open up a discursive space in the human rights discourse to address unresolved questions, citing issues and problems from different countries in the Third World: 1.Whether alt...
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    83,76 €

  • Labor Relations in Globalized Food
    This book looks at labor in agriculture and food in a global era by studying salient characteristics of the conditions and use of labor in global agri-food. Written by experienced and also emerging scholars, the chapters present a wealth of empirical data and robust theorizations that allow readers to grasp the complexity of this topic. ...
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    265,41 €

  • Kintyre Country Life
    Angus Martin
    When it was first published in 1987, this picture of the lives of country folk from the eighteenth century to the early twentieth completed a trilogy on the history and culture of the author's native Kintyre. The material, from both oral and written sources, tells of everyday lives - working the land, raising livestock, building and furnishing homes, finding fuel and preparing ...
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    20,20 €


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