Rural Reminiscences is a poignant record of one family's survival during depressed economic times. It also details the management of a highly diversified farm operation that was changing from horsepower on the hoof to under the hood. It explains and describes the operation of farm machinery powered by draft horses and the frustrations farmers ......
Drawing on his ethnographic research in rural areas of Kentucky, the author of this book presents a thorough look at the experiences of battered women in rural communities. Neil Websdale demonstrates how rural patriarchy and an insidious `ol' boy's network' of law enforcement and local politics sustains, reproduces and transforms the subordinate, ......
Modern farm policy emerged in the United States in 1862, leading to an industrialized agriculture that made the farm sector collectively more successful even as many individual farmers failed. This title blends history, politics, and economics to show that federal government emphasis on farm productivity has failed to meet broader rural needs.
This book outlines the changes occurring in Britain's rural areas and their impact on people's lives. It challenges the image of the 'rural idyll' which many of the nation's city dwellers hold. A key feature of the book is the use of local case-study material to illustrate the major themes identified from a broader evaluation of the topics. This approach gives readers a better feel for the nature and implications of social change in the countryside than can be obtained from standard texts on rural geography.
A fine addition to the study of urbanization. . . . (Michael) Shirley's book will appeal not only to a regional audience in the South but also to all students of the diverse American experience.--AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW. Compelling. . . . (an) important contribution to our understanding of the modernizing of America.--JOURNAL OF ......
The story of 19th-century Winston-Salem, a community of artisans and small farmers, united, as members of a religious congregation, by a single vision of life. Its transformation into an industrial centre within a few decades, illustrates the changes that swept through America's Southern society.
Presents a detailed description of the everyday life of early Dutch settlers in New York and New Jersey. Cohen gives special attention to the rise of the Dutch Reformed Church in these areas - particularly to the denomination's transformation into an American culture.
In many countries, the recent history of public policymaking, particularly planning, shows a distinct move away from supposedly "rational" approaches towards a reliance upon more pragmatic procedures. The move is partly a result of similar changing attitudes amongst academics. Despite this new conventional wisdom, some policy analysts warn against ......
