The Midwest Farmer's Daughter: In Search of an American Icon
ISBN: 9781557536198 / Angielski / Miękka / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From yesterday's gingham girls to today's Farmer Janes, The Midwest Farmer's Daughter unearths the untold history and renewed cultural currency of an American icon at a time when fully 30 percent of new farms in the US are woman-owned. From farm women bloggers, to back-to-the-land homesteaders and seed-savers, to rural graphic novelists and, ultimately, to the seven generations of farm daughters who have animated his own family since before the Civil War, the author travels across the region to shine new documentary light on this seedbed for American virtue, energy, and ingenuity....
From yesterday's gingham girls to today's Farmer Janes, The Midwest Farmer's Daughter unearths the untold history and renewed cultural currency of an ...
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94,95 zł |
Land to Investors: Large-scale Land Transfers in Ethiopia
ISBN: 9789994450404 / Angielski / Miękka / 64 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Under its program of land investments, the Ethiopian government has leased out huge tracts of land to domestic and foreign investors on terms that are highly favorable to both but particularly to foreign ones. Critical reports on the ibonanzai reaped by foreign capital have appeared in the world media and the websites of international activist organizations, and while some of these are based on questionable evidence, the global attention they have drawn may well be deserved given the image of the country as a land of poverty and hunger. This study, which is based on information gathered from...
Under its program of land investments, the Ethiopian government has leased out huge tracts of land to domestic and foreign investors on terms that are...
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190,27 zł |
Opening Windows Onto Hidden Lives: Women, Country Life, and Early Rural Sociological Research
ISBN: 9780271037295 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Building on their analysis in Sociology in Government (Penn State, 2003), Julie Zimmerman and Olaf Larson again join forces across the generations to explore the unexpected inclusion of rural and farm women in the research conducted by the USDA's Division of Farm Population and Rural Life. Existing from 1919 to 1953, the Division was the first, and for a time the only, unit of the federal government devoted to sociological research. The authors explore how these early rural sociologists found the conceptual space to include women in their analyses of farm living, rural community... Building on their analysis in Sociology in Government (Penn State, 2003), Julie Zimmerman and Olaf Larson again join forces across the gen... |
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217,97 zł |
Studies in Urbanormativity : Rural Community in Urban Society
ISBN: 9780739178768 / Angielski / Twarda / 306 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The world has been witnessing a long unfolding process of urbanization that not only has altered the structural basis of society in terms of political economy, but has also symbolically relegated rural people and life to a secondary or deviant status through an ideology of urbanormativity. Both structural and cultural changes rooted in urbanization are connected in complex ways to spatial arrangements that can be described in terms of inequality and uneven development. Through a focus on localities, Studies in Urbanormativity: Rural Community in Urban Society examines the implications of...
The world has been witnessing a long unfolding process of urbanization that not only has altered the structural basis of society in terms of political...
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604,07 zł |
Living in Utopia: New Zealand's Intentional Communities
ISBN: 9780754642244 / Angielski / Twarda / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Utopia is, literally, the good place that is no place. Utopias reveal people's dreams and desires and they may gesture towards different and better ways of being. But they are rarely considered as physical, observable phenomena. In this book Sargisson and Sargent, both established writers on utopian theory, turn their attention to real-life utopian communities. The book is based on their fieldwork and extensive archival research in New Zealand, a country with a special place in the history of utopianism. A land of opportunity for settlers with dreams of a better life, New Zealand has, per...
Utopia is, literally, the good place that is no place. Utopias reveal people's dreams and desires and they may gesture towards different and better wa...
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678,21 zł |
Landscapes of Change: Rural Evolutions in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages
ISBN: 9781840146172 / Angielski / Twarda / 342 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Only in recent years has archaeology begun to examine in a coherent manner the transformation of the landscape from classical through to medieval times. In Landscapes of Change, leading scholars in the archaeology of the late antique and early medieval periods address the key results and directions of Roman rural fieldwork. In so doing, they highlight problems of analysis and interpretation whilst also identifying the variety of transformations that rural Europe experienced during and following the decline of Roman hegemony. Whilst documents and standing buildings predominate in the urban...
Only in recent years has archaeology begun to examine in a coherent manner the transformation of the landscape from classical through to medieval time...
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808,63 zł |
First Majority Last Minority
ISBN: 9780875800561 / Angielski / Twarda / 358 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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218,27 zł |
Ulster Farming Families
ISBN: 9781903688540 / Angielski / Miękka / 132 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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73,50 zł |
Contesting Rurality: Politics in the British Countryside
ISBN: 9780754630258 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Rural issues have gained national prominence in Britain in recent years. The future of hunting, the Foot and Mouth outbreak, farm income and agricultural reform and housing development have all claimed political and media attention, promoted by a vocal rural lobby and headline-grabbing protests and demonstrations. Combining detailed empirical research and case studies with theoretically informed critical analysis, this book provides an overview of the contemporary politics of the British countryside. It explores how and why rural issues have suddenly achieved such political prominence, by...
Rural issues have gained national prominence in Britain in recent years. The future of hunting, the Foot and Mouth outbreak, farm income and agricultu...
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678,21 zł |
Figures in the Landscape: Rural Society in England, 1500-1700
ISBN: 9780860788041 / Angielski / Twarda / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How did the a peasantrya of early modern England react to the Reformation and to subsequent changes in their churches? Were they involved in founding dissenting churches? Could they even read? And if so, what was available for them? This volume brings together a key set of papers on such subjects by one of the foremost recent English social historians. Margaret Spufford has been a pioneer, in the particular social a landscapea of early modern England, of the techniques of a total historya, and her work has helped shift the historical understanding of seventeenth-century commoners away from...
How did the a peasantrya of early modern England react to the Reformation and to subsequent changes in their churches? Were they involved in founding ...
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678,21 zł |
The Theory of Peasant Cooperatives
ISBN: 9781850431893 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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678,21 zł |
Culture, Power, and the State: Rural North China, 1900-1942
ISBN: 9780804718882 / Angielski / Miękka / 342 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the early twentieth century, the Chinese state made strenuous efforts to broaden and deepen its authority over rural society. This book is an ambitious attempt to offer both a method and a framework for analyzing Chinese social history in the state-making era. The author constructs a prismatic view of village-level society that shows how marketing, kinship, water control, temple patronage, and other structures of human interaction overlapped to form what he calls the cultural nexus of power in local society. The author's concept of the cultural nexus and his tracing of how it was altered...
In the early twentieth century, the Chinese state made strenuous efforts to broaden and deepen its authority over rural society. This book is an ambit...
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146,02 zł |
Rural Guatemala, 1760-1940
ISBN: 9780804723183 / Angielski / Twarda / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This comprehensive study of rural development in Guatemala extends from the late colonial period through the transformation of the economy by the introduction of larger-scale coffee production.
This comprehensive study of rural development in Guatemala extends from the late colonial period through the transformation of the economy by the intr...
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365,19 zł |
Lairds, Land and Sustainability: Scottish Perspectives on Upland Management
ISBN: 9780748645916 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Scotland is at the heart of modern, sustainable upland management. Large estates cover vast areas of the uplands, with a long, complex and emotive history of ownership and use.
In recent decades, the Scottish uplands have increasingly been the arena for passionate debates over large-scale land management issues. Crucially, what kinds of ownership and management will best deliver sustainable futures for upland environments and communities? Although the globally unique dominance of private ownership remains a distinctive characteristic of Scotland's uplands, increasing numbers of... Scotland is at the heart of modern, sustainable upland management. Large estates cover vast areas of the uplands, with a long, complex and emotive his...
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443,44 zł |
Cement, Earthworms, and Cheese Factories: Religion and Community Development in Rural Ecuador
ISBN: 9780268026110 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Cement, Earthworms, and Cheese Factories examines the ways in which religion and community development are closely intertwined in a rural part of contemporary Latin America. Using historical, documentary, and ethnographic data collected over more than a decade as an aid worker and as a researcher in central Ecuador, Jill DeTemple examines the forces that have led to this entanglement of religion and development and the ways in which rural Ecuadorians, as well as development and religious personnel, negotiate these complicated relationships. Technical innovations have been connected to...
Cement, Earthworms, and Cheese Factories examines the ways in which religion and community development are closely intertwined in a rural part of cont...
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166,94 zł |
Organizing Rural China -- Rural China Organizing
ISBN: 9780739170090 / Angielski / Twarda / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. During the early 1980s China embarked on what can be seen as one of the world's largest social experiments ever. Decollectivization meant much more than the reorganization of agricultural production into family based farming. It signaled significant changes to rural social relations, when privatization, marketization and increased geographical mobility started tearing apart the economic and social institutions that had structured collective village life under Mao. The focus of this book is on how rural society has been reorganized in the 21st century. The first chapters outline the basic...
During the early 1980s China embarked on what can be seen as one of the world's largest social experiments ever. Decollectivization meant much more th...
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538,17 zł |
Locating Cultural Work: The Politics and Poetics of Rural, Regional and Remote Creativity
ISBN: 9780230355422 / Angielski / Twarda / 195 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Drawing upon field work and interviews with cultural workers in the UK and Australia, this book examines the cultural work experiences of rural, regional and remotely located creative practitioners, and how this sits within local economies and communities.
Drawing upon field work and interviews with cultural workers in the UK and Australia, this book examines the cultural work experiences of rural, regio...
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194,08 zł |
A Social History of the English Countryside
ISBN: 9780415513210 / Angielski / Miękka / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First published in 1990. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
First published in 1990. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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229,49 zł |
Revealing Rural Others: Representation, Power, and Identity in the British Countryside
ISBN: 9781855674240 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 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, smallholders and low-income groups. These papers highlight the initial fruits of this research and attempt to reveal other rural others - different ideas about the countryside, different uses of rural space, and...
A collection of 11 papers on issues of representation, power and identity within the British countryside. Researchers in this area have looked beyond ...
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549,15 zł |
Gender and Plantation Labour in Africa. The Story of Tea Pluckers' Struggles in Cameroon
ISBN: 9789956727308 / Angielski / Miękka / 306 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book explores the relationship between plantation labour and gender in Africa. Such a study is the more opportune because most of the existing works on plantation labour in Africa seem to have either under-studied or even ignored the changing conceptions of gender on the continent in recent times. One of the book's major concerns is to demonstrate that the introduction of plantation labour during colonial rule in Africa has had significant consequences for gender roles and relations within and beyond the capitalist labour process. The book focuses on two tea estates in Anglophone...
This book explores the relationship between plantation labour and gender in Africa. Such a study is the more opportune because most of the existing wo...
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302,19 zł |