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Tennessee History Book Award Finalist The Upper Cumberland region of Kentucky and Tennessee, often regarded as isolated and out of...

In story, song, and spontaneous essay, these texts tell of the coming of Christianity, of endless war, of the hardships...

Cement, Earthworms, and Cheese Factories examines the ways in which religion and community development are closely intertwined in a rural...

In the early twentieth century, the Chinese state made strenuous efforts to broaden and deepen its authority over rural society....

Indiana is home to the world's third-largest Amish population. Indiana's 19 Old Order Amish and two Old Order Mennonite communities...

This is the first full-length history of Russian peasant women in the 20th century in English. Filling a significant gap...

" This masterful social...

From yesterday's gingham girls to today's Google-era Farmer Janes, The Midwest Farmer's Daughter explores the resurgent role played by female...

Ronald Blythe's 1969 book Akenfield - a moving portrait of English country life told in the voices of the farmers...

First published in Britain in 1966, French Rural History is a study initially given as lectures in Oslo in 1929....

Texans love the idea of wide-open spaces and, before World War II, the majority of the state's people did live...

Sleepy rustic Carmarthenshire was secretly a hotbed of debauchery, violence and drunkenness according to Russell Davies in a new edition...

James C. Scott places the critical problem of the peasant household—subsistence 1;at the center of this study.  The fear of food...

Exceptionally well-documented vivid study of serfdom, manorial customs, abbeys, village discipline, peasant revolts, justice, religious education, tithing, m......

At the center of this investigation is the great modernization effort of a West German state, Bavaria, in the 1970s...

For many, “going back to the land” brings to mind the 1960s and 1970s—hippie communes and the Summer of Love,...

Investigating the personal stories behind the headquarters of the Wal-Mart empire, this examination focuses on the growth of Bentonville, Arkansas—......

What did it mean to be an African subject living in remote areas of Tanganyika at the end of the...

This book provides first-hand, insiders’ perspectives on urban issues in China, aiming to provide a theoretically informed and empirically rich...