Tag: Rural

Free Download Thomas Miller Klubock, "Ranquil: Rural Rebellion, Political Violence, and Historical Memory in Chile"
English | ISBN: 0300253133 | 2022 | 336 pages | PDF | 7 MB
The first major history of Chile’s most significant peasant rebellion and the violent repression that followed

Free Download Sebastián Felipe Villamizar-Santamaría, "Making the Rural Urban: Inter-Class Dynamics to Protect the Environment in a Gentrifying Rural Town in Colombia "
English | ISBN: 3031583345 | 2024 | 181 pages | EPUB, PDF | 8 MB + 6 MB
This book takes the small rural town of La Calera, in the outskirts of the Colombian capital of Bogotá, as a case study to analyze how residents from different social classes – wealthier ex-urban newcomers arriving to traditionally peasant and rural areas – interact to decide how nature will be used in the face of further urban expansion. Contrary to the conflicts in other gentrification cases, including those of "green" gentrification, this book shows how newcomers and longtimers in La Calera use environmental concerns to bridge social class rifts and push the state to provide water, public space, and decision-making power.

Free Download Rēwena and Rabbit Stew: The Rural Kitchen in Aotearoa, 1800-1940 by Katie Cooper
English | 8 August 2024 | ISBN: 1776711114 | True EPUB | 344 pages | 9.6 MB
A look through the kitchen window into early rural life in Aotearoa.

Free Download Rural Hours: The Country Lives of Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Townsend Warner and Rosamond Lehmann by Harriet Baker
English | 4 April 2024 | ISBN: 0241540518, 0141998598 | True EPUB | 384 pages | 10.6 MB
In Rural Hours, Harriet Baker tells the story of three very different women, each of whom moved to the countryside and was forever changed by it. We encounter them at quiet moments – pausing to look at an insect on the windowsill; jotting down a recipe; or digging for potatoes, dirt beneath their nails. Slowly, we start to see transformations unfold: Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Townsend Warner, and Rosamond Lehmann emerge before us as the passionate, visionary writers we know them to be.

Free Download Wenrong Qian, "Rural Development in China from the Perspective of Relative Poverty"
English | ISBN: 9819956706 | 2023 | 264 pages | PDF | 5 MB
This book provides a broad survey of Chinese rural households at a time of rapid change in China’s rural economy, examining the dual identity of households as consumers as well as producers of goods in terms of supply and demand. Based on the results of the China Rural Household Panel Survey (CRHPS) by Zhejiang University, this book analyzes four types of economic activities of rural households in China, particularly considering changes at the micro level. It examines how households strive to maximize family efficacy through input-output production decision-making in allocating limited resources. Examining data pertaining to agricultural production, land exploitation, migration and nationalization, as well as changes in economic behavior, this book offers a snapshot of the current situation of rural households in China and suggestions to improve living standards and related policies.

Free Download Judith Kalik, "Movable Inn: The Rural Jewish Population of Minsk Guberniya in 1793-1914"
English | ISBN: 3110576015 | 2018 | 246 pages | PDF | 12 MB
Jews are typically viewed as urban dwellers. However there was a considerable Jewish presence in villages from the very beginning of their settlement in Eastern Europe in the 12th century, up until the Holocaust. The presence of a large Jewish population in villages was, in fact, one of the most distinctive features of East European Jewry. The colourful personality of Jewish leaseholders of the production and sale of alcoholic beverages was often depicted in Polish, Russian and Jewish literature of the 19th century, but the real knowledge about the East European rural Jews beyond the stereotypical view is still at large.The book presents the results of a systematic survey, the first of its kind, on the rural Jews in the Minsk Guberniya, from its establishment as a major administrative unit within the Russian Empire in 1793, to the outbreak of the First World War in 1914. The present study is based mainly on systematic sources, which produced, for the first time, a full picture of Jewish settlement in the countryside in one particular region of the Russian Empire.

Free Download Niels Grüne, Jonas Hübner, Gerhard Siegl, "Ländliche Gemeingüter / Rural Commons: Kollektive Ressourcennutzung in der europäischen Agrarwirtschaft / Collective Use of Resources in the European Agrarian Economy"
Deutsch | 2016 | ISBN: 3706554712 | EPUB | pages: 308 | 3.0 mb
Der Band umfasst Überblicke und Fallstudien zur Geschichte ländlicher Gemeingüter. In vergleichender Perspektive zieht er eine problemorientierte Zwischenbilanz dieses expandierenden Forschungszweigs.

Free Download J. P. Bowen, A. T. Brown, "Custom and Commercialisation in English Rural Society: Revisiting Tawney and Postan"
English | 2016 | ISBN: 1909291447, 1909291455 | EPUB | pages: 288 | 2.1 mb
English rural society underwent fundamental changes between the thirteenth and eighteenth centuries with urbanization, commercialization and industrialization producing new challenges and opportunities for inhabitants of rural communities. However, our understanding of this period has been shaped by the compartmentalization of history into medieval and early-modern specialisms and by the debates surrounding the transition from feudalism to capitalism and landlord-tenant relations. Inspired by the classic works of Tawney and Postan, this collection of essays examines their relevance to historians today, distinguishing between their contrasting approaches to the pre-industrial economy and exploring the development of agriculture and rural industry; changes in land and property rights; and competition over resources in the English countryside.

Free Download Shaping Rural Areas in Europe: Perceptions and Outcomes on the Present and the Future By Luís Silva, Elisabete Figueiredo (auth.), Luís Silva, Elisabete Figueiredo (eds.)
2013 | 268 Pages | ISBN: 9400767951 | PDF | 3 MB
Shaping Rural Areas in Europe. Perceptions and Outcomes on the Present and the Future sets out to investigate the effect of urban perceptions about the rural and consequent demands on rurality on the present and future configurations of rural territories in Europe in the early twenty-first century. This volume presents and discusses a broad range of case studies and theoretical and methodological approaches from different academic fields, mainly Anthropology, Sociology and Geography.

Free Download Rural Technology Development and Delivery: RuTAG and Its Synergy with Other Initiatives by Subir Kumar Saha
English | EPUB | 2019 | 357 Pages | ISBN : 9811364346 | 168.8 MB
This book comprises the proceedings of a rural technologies conference organised by the Rural Technology Action Group (RuTAG), which was conceptualized and initiated by Principal Scientific Adviser (PSA) to the Government of India R. Chidambaram in 2003-04. The book highlights case studies and research into providing science and technology interventions for the development of rural areas. Covering various aspects of research carried out in the area of rural technologies, it offers a valuable resource for researchers, professionals, and policymakers alike.