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A profound analysis of a broad range of issues, providing a masterly overview of rural development in India.

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The clear, authoritative chapters describe the declining opportunities available in rural areas--including the social, educational, and political factors that so often pose barriers to economic advancement.

Part One provides a comprehensive description of the poor population and an analysis of rural poverty's underlying dynamics.

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This volume examines the relationships between rural settlement processes and the spatial patterns they produce by mapping past and present patterns and tracing the historical processes which generated them.

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Rural quality of life is a multidisciplinary and critical contribution from 49 authors from Europe, North America, Asia, Africa, and Oceania to the understanding of quality of life in rural areas in the global North. They point to the need for vision among planners, policymakers, and people in general in the diversity in lived quality of rural life

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With increasing awareness of the limits that natural resource reserves and environmental concerns impose on economic growth, rural sociologists have developed new ways of looking at the relationship between man and his environment.

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A timely chronicle of small-town Iowa and its environmental, economic, and political struggles.

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Far from being the bucolic paradise that is often imagined, the rural areas of this country are afflicted with chronic economic hardship, severe forms of alienation, and the lack of a foundation for community development or for the enhancement of economic, social, and educational opportunities for rural people.

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Using the New Social History method and examining nearly every document produced over the years covered, this study examines the growth of communities in the Upper Pee Dee region of the South Carolina backcountry in the 18th century.

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With his customary verve and insight, Terry Roberts' latest novelis an evocative portrait of humankind's capacity for courage, love, and hope as well as folly, as reluctant sheriffClinton Salter works to unravel the mystery of a string of arsons, grave robberies, and murders plaguing Madison County, all while navigating difficult family relationships and the hope of second love.

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With his customary verve and insight, Terry Roberts' latest novelis an evocative portrait of humankind's capacity for courage, love, and hope as well as folly, as reluctant sheriffClinton Salter works to unravel the mystery of a string of arsons, grave robberies, and murders plaguing Madison County, all while navigating difficult family relationships and the hope of second love.

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"Stuart Elden and Adam David Morton present Lefebvre's key works on rural questions, including the first half of his book Du rural a l'urbain and supplementary texts. On the Rural reveals the production of the rural as a key site of capitalist development and as a space of struggle"--

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A ground-breaking book that uncovers the most overlooked cultural division in modern society - the rift between urban and rural communities.

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Interviews and essays describe the way of life and crafts of pioneer America still surviving in the Appalachian region.

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Discusses the hollowing out of small-town America, a phenomenon in which young people graduate from high school and leave their small hometowns, many never to return, and discusses why it is important to the country to keep rural heartland towns growing and thriving.

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Talks about the country dweller, who sees his or her world eroded by the wishy-washy liberal commands of Blairite do-gooders, who sit in North West London pontificating about the needs of country people. This book also deals with the devastations of the foot and mouth crisis that showed how the great divide between town and country dwellers.

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"An examination of the daily grind of living with pollution in rural China and of the varying forms of activism that develop in response, revised from the original 2017 edition with a new preface"--