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  • The Bounded Field
    Jaro Stacul
    'This is all fascinating, well documented, and the relationship between local activism and the larger political movements is sensibly analysed...Overall this is a revealing study of the power of locality in framing experience and action.' · JRAI ...
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    184,33 €

  • Prairie Town
    Jacqueline Edmondson / Jacqueline PhD Edmondson
    Prairie Town describes the contemporary rural condition and efforts to sustain rural life in one small Minnesota community at the turn of the 21st century. The book considers the rural literacies that circulate in this community as residents work to redefine their position within the context of globalization. Prairie Town’s story offers us hope as we learn that neoliberalism is...
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    60,23 €

  • Confederacy of Silence
    Richard Rubin
    When Richard Rubin, fresh out of the Ivy League, accepts a job at a daily newspaper in the old Delta town of Greenwood, Mississippi, he is thrust into a place as different from his hometown of New York as any in the country. Yet to his surprise, he is warmly welcomed by the townspeople and soon finds his first great scoop in Handy Campbell, a poor, black teen and gifted high sc...
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    24,92 €

  • The Sociocultural and Political Aspects of Abortion
    Alaka Basu
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    82,26 €

  • In Gotham’s Shadow
    Alexander R Thomas / Alexander R. Thomas
    Examines the effects of globalization on three New York communities-Utica, Cooperstown, and Hartwick. ...
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    40,96 €

  • La vall de les sis mesquites (2a ed.)
    Ferran Garcia-Oliver
    'La vall de les sis mesquites' és una mirada intensa i concentrada sobre els llauradors de la Valldigna medieval. Encara que vénen a poblar-la cristians i la senyoria vesteix els hàbits blancs del Císter, els costums, la llengua, el menjar de cada dia, les robes i fins el mateix paisatge, tot plegat ho observem a través de les accions dels moros. Amb una voluntat clarament «nar...
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    15,00 €

  • The Social Risks of Agriculture
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    121,98 €

  • Rural Society and the Search for Order in Early Modern Germany
    Thomas Robisheaux
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    61,45 €

  • Open Secrets
    Richard Lischer
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    17,20 €

  • Hill Folks
    Brooks Blevins
    The Ozark region, located in northern Arkansas and southern Missouri, has long been the domain of the folklorist and the travel writer--a circumstance that has helped shroud its history in stereotype and misunderstanding. With Hill Folks, Brooks Blevins offers the first in-depth historical treatment of the Arkansas Ozarks. He traces the region’s history from the early nineteent...
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    54,12 €

  • A World of Its Own
    Matt Garcia
    Tracing the history of intercultural struggle and cooperation in the citrus belt of Greater Los Angeles, Matt Garcia explores the social and cultural forces that helped make the city the expansive and diverse metropolis that it is today.As the citrus-growing regions of the San Gabriel and Pomona Valleys in eastern Los Angeles County expanded during the early twentieth century,...
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    54,14 €

  • Working the Garden
    William Conlogue
    In 1860 farmers accounted for 60 percent of the American workforce; in 1910, 30.5 percent; by 1994, there were too few to warrant a separate census category. The changes wrought by the decline of family farming and the rise of industrial agribusiness typically have been viewed through historical, economic, and political lenses. But as William Conlogue demonstrates, some of the ...
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    54,59 €

  • Handbook of Environmental Sociology
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    147,72 €

  • A Future for Regional Australia
    Geoffrey Lawrence / I. W. Gray / Ian Gray / IWGray
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    146,42 €

  • People In The Countryside
    A. G. Champion / AGChampion / C. Watkins / CWatkins
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    102,26 €

  • NGOs in India
    K. Gangrade / KGangrade / R. Sooryamoorthy / RSooryamoorthy
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    121,84 €

  • Class, Networks, and Identity
    Rhonda F Levine / Rhonda F. Levine / Rhonda FLevine
    This book documents a little-known aspect of the Jewish experience in America. It is a fascinating account of how a group of Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany came to dominate cattle dealing in south central New York and maintain a Jewish identity even while residing in small towns and villages that are overwhelmingly Christian. The book pays particular attention to the unique ...
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    69,60 €

  • Dairy Industry Restructuring
    Andrew PDr Davidson / Harry KSchwarzweller
    Dairy industry restructuring is being affected by formidable forces of change: the withdrawal of government protections and price support mechanisms; the globalization of markets; the rising power of food processors; and the associated discontinuities of modern life. This book examines various aspects about the reshaping of this troubled industry. ...
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    241,53 €

  • Seasons on a Ranch
    Cynthia Vannoy-Rhoades
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    15,07 €

  • From British Peasants to Colonial American Farmers
    Allan Kulikoff
    With this book, Allan Kulikoff offers a sweeping new interpretation of the origins and development of the small farm economy in Britain’s mainland American colonies. Examining the lives of farmers and their families, he tells the story of immigration to the colonies, traces patterns of settlement, analyzes the growth of markets, and assesses the impact of the Revolution on smal...
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    69,85 €

  • The Road to Poverty
    Dwight B. Billings / Dwight BBillings / Kathleen M. Blee / Kathleen MBlee
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    75,26 €

  • Redesign and Management of Communities in Crisis
    J. D. R. de Raadt / JDRde Raadt
    Leaders who must deal with crises afflicting their communities often discover that these crises depend upon normative factors transcending mere economics. The factors include such things as ethics, justice and belief. They also discover that there are not many tools available to analyse them and to assist their decision-making. The author presents a method to identify the prima...
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    25,47 €

  • Like a Family
    Jacquelyn Dowd Hall / James L. Leloudis / James LLeloudis / Robert R. Korstad / Robert RKorstad
    Since its original publication in 1987, Like a Family has become a classic in the study of American labor history. Basing their research on a series of extraordinary interviews, letters, and articles from the trade press, the authors uncover the voices and experiences of workers in the Southern cotton mill industry during the 1920s and 1930s. Now with a new afterword, this edi...
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    68,38 €

  • At Home in the Hills
    John Gray
    '... a fascinating history of the Borders as space defined through exercises of power ... The absorbing history of space provides the setting for a fine-grained ethnograpy of place ... It also has the great virtue of being most readable.' · The Australian Journal of AnthropologyTo most outsiders, the hills of the Scottish Borders are a bleak and foreboding space - usually made...
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    184,11 €

  • Moving Nearer to Heaven
    Patrick C. Jobes / Patrick CJobes
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    121,76 €

  • Authorized to Heal
    Sandra Lee Barney
    In this book, Sandra Barney examines the transformation of medical care in Central Appalachia during the Progressive Era and analyzes the influence of women volunteers in promoting the acceptance of professional medicine in the region. By highlighting the critical role played by nurses, clubwomen, ladies’ auxiliaries, and other female constituencies in bringing modern medicine ...
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    54,60 €

  • Holding the Line
    Diane Zimmerman Umble
    Among the Old Order Mennonite and Amish communities of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, the coming of the telephone posed a serious challenge to the longstanding traditions of work, worship, silence, and visiting. In 1907, Mennonites crafted a compromise in order to avoid a church split and grudgingly allowed telephones for lay people while prohibiting telephone ownership among ...
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    43,58 €

  • Making Democracy Work Better
    Richard A. Couto / Richard ACouto
    The decade of the 1980s marked a triumph for market capitalism. As politicians of all stripes sought to reinvent government in the image of private enterprise, they looked to the voluntary sector for allies to assuage the human costs of reductions in public policies of social welfare. This book details the 'savage side' of market capitalism in Appalachia and explains the social...
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    60,65 €

  • Focus on Migration
    Brendan Mullen / HSchwarzweller
    Covers a variety of topics in research in rural sociology and development. ...
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    200,72 €

  • Pigs, Profits, and Rural Communities
    Using the pork production industry as an example, this book illuminates the processes and consequences of agricultural industrialization for the social, economic, human, environmental, and political health of the rural United States. ...
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    42,20 €


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