Rural category: 418 books
by Tony Akaki
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2003
This book highlights some of the main areas of debate around the subject of agricultural policy in Eastern Africa. Its major aim is to introduce the reader to different issues of economic and social change arising from agricultural development and to provide an understanding of some of the major difficulties...
Living in Utopia
New Zealand’s Intentional Communities
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
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...
Dwelling in Resistance
Living with Alternative Technologies in America
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2017
Most Americans take for granted much of what is materially involved in the daily rituals of dwelling. In Dwelling in Resistance, Chelsea Schelly examines four alternative U.S. communities—“The Farm,” “Twin Oaks,” “Dancing Rabbit,” and “Earthships”—where electricity, water, heat,...
An Amish Patchwork
Indiana's Old Orders in the Modern World
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2004
Indiana is home to the world’s third-largest Amish population. Indiana’s 19 Old Order Amish and two Old Order Mennonite communities show a surprising diversity despite all that unites them as a distinct culture. This contemporary portrait of Indiana’s Amish is the first book-length overview...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2014
In recent years labor relations have altered significantly and new and more serious forms of labor marginalization and control have emerged. 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....
by Allan Kulikoff
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
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,...
The British Gentry, the Southern Planter, and the Northern Family Farmer
Agriculture and Sectional Antagonism in North America
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2015
Drawing on the history of the British gentry to explain the contrasting sentiments of American small farmers and plantation owners, James L. Huston's expansive analysis offers a new understanding of the socioeconomic factors that fueled sectionalism and ignited the American Civil War. This groundbreaking...
African Pearls and Poisons
Idi Amin’S Uganda; Kenya; Zaire’S Pygmies
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2013
If you desire an exhilarating read of a familys life during Idi Amins savage reign, then this books for you. Doug Abraham, Writer & Columnist. The Jacques Familys unique Safaris passed through some of the most beautiful often life threatening landscapes and situations on earth, and survived. Enjoy!...
Tableau de la France
édition intégrale
Language: French
Release Date: April 1, 2013
"Jules Michelet et son Tableau de la France que nous commençons. D'emblée, on mesure combien histoire et géographie sont intriquées. Ce qui frappe surtout, c'est le parti pris de montrer, tout à la fois, la diversité des terroirs et ce qui, au long des siècles, concourt à leur harmonieuse...
Working the Garden
American Writers and the Industrialization of Agriculture
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2003
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,...
Tales From the Home Farm
Live More, Spend Less, Grow Your Own Food
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
Turn the doom and gloom into a better, more enjoyable way of living.
Want to eat better, save money, work those muscles without the treadmill, know where your food comes from? This could be the new, recession-proof you! Five years ago Michael Kelly chucked in the corporate life to try his hand at...
Resistance to the Neoliberal Agri-Food Regime
A Critical Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
This volume explores the contents, forms, and actors that characterize current opposition to the corporate neoliberal agri-food regime. Designed to generate a coherent, informed and updated analysis of resistance in agri-food, empirical and theoretical contributions analyze the relationship between...
by Rebecca E. Berkey
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017
Utilizing a model derived from literature on environmental justice overlaid with multiple scales of agriculture, Environmental Justice and Farm Labor provides key insights about laborers in agriculture in the United States. It addresses three main topics: (1) justice-related issues facing farmers...
The Persistence of Subsistence Agriculture
Life Beneath the Level of the Marketplace
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2006
The story told by The Persistence of Subsistence Agriculture begins 8,000 years ago as humans began using the land and weather to provide themselves with food, housing, and clothing. Productive farmers took care of most daily needs within the small conservative world in which they lived. This world...