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  • The Latin American Peasant
    Andrew Pearse
    First Published 1975, The Latin American Peasant is not a historian’s book, the presentation is rather sociological. The concept peasant, taken as equivalent of the word campesino or campones, does have both historical and geographical reality in the Latin American context. ...
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    56,76 €

  • I Tell It Like It Is! (Volume 1 of 3)
    Kuhn
    Volume One chronicles John Kuhn’s journey from a hay-allergic farmer’s son, born on the same day as Harry Potter and being gently guided by God to be a Writer. Yet, John was also born on the same day as his dairy farmer grandfather, Fritz Kuhn, who loved to take him gopher hunting, just like the movie, Caddyshack! Fresh new Author John Kuhn will take you on a detailed, unvarnis...
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    15,50 €

  • Degraded Heartland
    Maria Farland
    What happens when rural America—long romanticized in pastoral literature—becomes associated with deficiency, degradation, and decline? Maria Farland’s Degraded Heartland is the first critical study of US literary antipastoral, a mode that exposes the stark realities of rural poverty and ecological devastation while highlighting the jagged process of modernization in the country...
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    41,08 €

  • Communities on the Margin
    Saiyed Nadeemul Hasnain
    This book probes into the marginalized communities of the Indian society through historical and contemporary societal perspectives. ...
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    75,72 €

  • Toilet Adoption in Rural India
    Gyan Mudra / Indranil De / Saswata Biswas
    This book examines sanitation and toilet access across rural India, focusing on psychological, socio-cultural, infrastructural, and normative barriers to the initiative of Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM). It also studies the implications of variations in caste, religion, and geography on toilet usage across Indian states. ...
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    82,84 €

  • Issues and Challenges of the American Rural South
    Issues and Challenges of the American Rural South provides students with carefully selected readings that help them understand the unique social problems faced by inhabitants of the southern region of the United States.Part I of the text features readings related to poverty issues in the South and their impact on marginalized individuals and groups. Part II examines health disp...
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    163,61 €

  • Resettlement with People First
    This book puts forward powerful counterfactual case studies to assess what problems real-world development projects would likely have avoided if the project had followed a higher standard, such as the World Commission on Dams policy framework. For academic researchers, development practitioners, and policy makers. ...
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    82,57 €

  • Grassroots Development Initiatives in India
    Sampat Kale
    This book examines how the voluntary organisations engaged with development programmes work with the approach of conscientisation to empower Adivasis. ...
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    82,93 €

  • Representaciones sociales, turismo y posconflicto en Colombia - Un estudio de caso en la subregión sur del Tolima
    Camilo Fernando Calderón Suaza / Erick Fernando Aristizábal Rodríguez / Lizeth Paola Romero Muñetón
    Este libro nace como producto de los resultados de investigación generados a través de las voces comunitarias del sur del Tolima, una subregión que alguna vez estuvo marcada por el conflicto armado, pero que hoy busca alternativas económicas y sociales para superar las consecuencias de la guerra. En ese sentido, a través de la actividad turística, con justicia social, las comun...
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    17,16 €

  • The Farmers of Old England
    Eric Kerridge
    Originally published in 1973, this book tells the story of the English countryside and its inhabitants between 1560 and 1760; the time when British agriculture became the wonder and envy of the world. ...
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    53,21 €

  • Sentient Ecologies
    Employing methodological perspectives from the fields of political geography, environmental studies, anthropology, and their cognate disciplines, this volume explores alternative logics of sentient landscapes as racist, xenophobic, and right-wing. While the field of sentient landscapes has gained critical attention, the literature rarely seems to question the intentionality of ...
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    26,35 €

  • Poverty and Social Inequality in Wales
    Originally published in 1980, this book presents a detailed empirical analysis of the key dimensions of inequality and poverty in Wales, discussing such aspects as the distribution of income and wealth, the housing situation, the functioning of the NHS and urban deprivation. ...
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    55,50 €

  • Saol Corrach
    Séamus Ó Grianna
    IARSCRÍBHINNRereading Saol Corrach I am struck not so much by the detail of the narrative as by the role of a writer like Ó Grianna in forming the consciousness of his readers. His language is free-flowing and personal, yet the repetition of phrases and expressions creates a continual series of fasteners linking present narrative to the words of parents and grandparents, and be...
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    18,39 €

  • Gentle Places and Simple Things
    Kevin Danaher
    ’If the four-leafed shamrock was lucky, the hungry grass who quite the opposite, and very unlucky he who trod on it.’ In point of fact if you trod on the hungry grass you almost expired of hunger -- for this is where some poor wretch died of starvation in the famine days. The hungry grass is still remembered in Ireland, like the stories of highwaymen and travelling people, of s...
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    18,86 €

  • China’s Social Credit
    Huang Xiaoye / Zhai Xuewei
    This book analyzes credit crisis issues in China from the aspect of individuals, enterprises, and government through investigations of six Chinese urban and rural areas. ...
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    77,39 €

  • Peasants, Capitalism, and the Work of Eric R. Wolf
    David Seddon / Fraser Sugden / Mark Tilzey
    Fifty years after the publication of Eric Wolf’s celebrated Peasant Wars of the Twentieth Century, this book offers a much-needed critical assessment and update of Wolf’s contribution to the study of the peasantry. ...
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    77,34 €

  • 17 de mayo. El otro Uchuraccay
    Comunidad de Huaynacancha / José Luis Torres Vitolas
    La madrugada del 17 de mayo de 1983, los terroristas de Sendero Luminoso entraron a nuestro pueblo. Como luciérnagas se movían con sus antorchas, avanzando rápido hacia nosotros, papá. Nos mataron de la forma más cruel que jamás habíamos visto. A mujeres, a niños pequeñitos, como despojos, los dejaron en la falda del cerro Sangaqasa.Con conocimiento de lo que habían hecho con n...
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    29,64 €

  • Responsible Rural Tourism in Asia
    The rural tourism sector has become a key driver for social and economic growth and a major source of income for developing and low-income countries in many parts of Asia. Rural tourism is progressively viewed as a solution, increasing the economic viability of marginalised areas, stimulating social regeneration and improving the living conditions of rural communities. Responsi...
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    56,46 €

  • L’Étrange défaite
    Marc Bloch
    Ces pages seront-elles jamais publiées ? Je ne sais. Il est probable, en tout cas, que, de longtemps, elles ne pourront être connues, sinon sous le manteau, en dehors de mon entourage immédiat. Je me suis cependant décidé à les écrire. L’effort sera rude : combien il me semblerait plus commode de céder aux conseils de la fatigue et du découragement! Mais un témoignage ne vaut ...
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    12,99 €

  • Apologie pour l’histoire ou Métier d’historien
    Marc Bloch
    Papa, explique moi donc à quoi sert l’histoire. Ainsi un jeune garçon qui me touche de près interrogeait, il y a peu d’années, un père historien. Du livre qu’on va lire, j’aimerais pouvoir dire qu’il est ma réponse. Car je n’imagine pas, pour un écrivain, de plus belle louange que de savoir parler, du même ton, aux doctes et aux écoliers. Mais une simplicité si haute est le ...
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    12,16 €

  • La France sous les derniers Capétiens
    Marc Bloch
    Nous allons parler, dans ce qui va suivre, presque constamment de roi, de royaume et d’État. C’étaient là de grandes réalités. Mais il est bon de rappeler tout d’abord que, dans le gouvernement des hommes, elles n’étaient pas les seules, à beaucoup près, qui comptassent. En dehors de toute dialectique juridique, prenons les trois obligations par où se reconnaissent le plus ais...
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    12,88 €

  • Les rois thaumaturges
    Marc Bloch
    Le 27 avril 1340, Frère François, de l’ordre des Prêcheurs, évêque de Bisaccia dans la province de Naples, chapelain du roi Robert d’Anjou et pour l’instant ambassadeur du roi d’Angleterre Edouard III, se présenta devant le Doge de Venise . Entre la France et l’Angleterre venait de s’ouvrir la lutte dynastique, qui devait être la Guerre de Cent Ans ; les hostilités avaient dé...
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    23,32 €

  • Les caractères originaux de l’Histoire rurale française
    Marc Bloch
    Ce serait jouer à d’aimables hôtes un très vilain tour que de rejeter sur eux une respon-sabilité dont l’auteur seul doit supporter le poids. Je puis bien dire cependant que si l’Institut pour l’Étude Comparative des Civilisations ne m’avait fait l’honneur, à l’automne dernier, de me demander quelques conférences, ce livre n’eût probablement jamais été écrit. Un historien aver...
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    15,80 €

  • Solid Waste Management and Disposal Practices in Rural Tourism
    As rural tourism continues to grow, managing the environmental impact, particularly solid waste, becomes increasingly important. Effective waste management and disposal practices are essential for maintaining the natural beauty and sustainability of rural tourist destinations. Addressing the issue of solid waste in these areas is crucial to preserving ecosystems, supporting loc...
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    458,97 €

  • Remembering India’s Villages
    Santosh K. Singh
    In the time of agrarian crisis and movement, Remembering India’s Villages centralises the rural India-examining its stubborn past and dynamic present. ...
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    77,22 €

  • Human Rights, Tribal Movements and Violence
    Debasree De
    This book sheds light on the issues of structural violence perpetrated against the tribes and analyzes the infringement of human rights of the tribes in the neo-liberal hegemonic context - induced displacement and dispossession of livelihood. ...
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    77,52 €

  • Indigeneity, Citizenship and the State
    This book chronicles the discernible strains on the questions of indegeneity, citizenship, identity, and border making in the Northeast India. ...
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    77,12 €

  • Living on a Time Bomb
    Svenja Schöneich
    Providing a holistic understanding of extensive oil extraction in rural Mexico, this book focuses on a campesino community, where oil extraction is deeply inscribed into the daily lives of the community members. The book shows how oil shapes the space where it is extracted in every aspect and produces multiple uncertainties. The community members express these uncertainties usi...
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    26,58 €

  • Cultivating Community
    Amanda Shankland
    In the face of escalating water scarcity, effective water management has become a central concern globally. The Murray-Darling Basin, spanning over a million square kilometres across four states and one territory, is a lifeline for Australian agriculture and rural communities.Cultivating Community: How discourse shapes the philosophy, practice and policy of water management in ...
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    37,01 €

  • Social Protection, Pastoralism and Resilience in Ethiopia
    This book investigates the role of social protection amongst African pastoral and agro-pastoral communities, with a particular focus on Ethiopia. It demonstrates the value of indigenous knowledge systems and local institutions in contributing to the design of more effective safety net programmes and disaster responses. ...
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    77,19 €


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