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    Rural Communities: Legacy & Change » Read Now

    by Cornelia Butler Flora, Jan L. Flora, Jacqueline D. Spears, Louis E. Swanson. 334 pgs.

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    Rural Community Economic Development » Read Now

    by Norman Walzer. 216 pgs.

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    This work examines the main economic trends affecting rural areas today and the types of local programs that are being implemented in response. The lessening of federal government involvement since the Reagan administration has shifted the public policy focus, placing greater responsibility for...
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    Investing in People: The Human Capital Needs of Rural America » Read Now

    by Lionel J. Beaulieu, David Mulkey. 400 pgs.

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    American Rural Communities » Read Now

    by A. E. Luloff, Louis E. Swanson. 276 pgs.

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    ...understudied forest component of rural society. Despite being Americas major...Historical Transformation of Rural Society and New Assumptions Regarding...survive the great...
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    Against All Odds: Rural Community in the Information Age » Read Now

    by John C. Allen, Don A. Dillman. 239 pgs.

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    ...STUDIES SERIES of the Rural Sociological Society Series Editor...development that brought rural America into the mainstream of American society. In particular...During the...
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    Teaching the Commons: Place, Pride, and the Renewal of Community (Includes discussion of rural society in multiple chapters) » Read Now

    by Paul Theobald. 192 pgs.

    Collections: Education, Entire Library
    "A timely & important book for those seeking to move beyond the numbing instrumentalism that dominates the current discourse on the purposes of education in our time.... Educators -rural, urban, & suburban-in search of direction for renewal & hope for the future of public education will find it...
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    Conflict and Crisis in Rural America » Read Now

    by Larry W. Waterfield. 236 pgs.

    Collections: History, Entire Library
    ...helped transform America from a rural, agrarian society into an industrial giant. The...contribute little to the greater good of society. They may require little; they...In...
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    Population and Community in Rural America » Read Now

    by Lorraine Garkovich. 235 pgs.

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    "The relationships among migration and the other components of population change and their joint effect on the structure of the rural population of the United States are analyzed in this volume. The first two chapters describe various theoretical and methodological issues. . . . Chapters 3 through 6...
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    Rural Poverty in America » Read Now

    by Cynthia M. Duncan. 328 pgs.

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    This timely, needed volume focuses on the over 9 million people in the U.S. living in poverty in rural settings. Rural poverty is not confined to one section of the country or to one ethnic group. It is a national problem, and the resolution of hidden America's persistent economic plight will now...
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    Persistent Poverty in Rural America » Read Now

    by Rural Sociological Society Task Force on Persistent Rural Poverty. 379 pgs.

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    ...RURAL STUDIES SERIES of the Rural Sociological Society Series Editor Forrest...3 The Rural Sociological Societys Rural Studies Series Editorial Committee...University...
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    The Aged in Rural America » Read Now

    by John A. Krout. 186 pgs.

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    ...1975 . However, just because rural society in America has changed socially...Rural/Urban Differences," in Rural Society in the U.S.: Issues for the 1980s...Perspective," in...
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    Garden Spot: Lancaster County, the Old Order Amish, and the Selling of Rural America » Read Now

    by David Walbert. 258 pgs.

    Collections: History, Entire Library
    Each year, millions of tourists are drawn to Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, to experience first-hand the quintessential pastoral--both as an escape from urban life and as a rare opportunity to become immersed in history. The area has attracted visitors eager to catch a glimpse of the distinctive...
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    Moving Nearer to Heaven: The Illusions and Disillusions of Migrants to Scenic Rural Places » Read Now

    by Patrick C. Jobes. 242 pgs.

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    While the dream of moving to a small town in a beautiful rural area is common among many Americans, that dream often turns into a nightmare for those who decide to follow it. More than half of the people who move to small towns in recreational places will move away in less than five years, and their...
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    The Devil Wagon in God's Country: The Automobile and Social Change in Rural America, 1893-1929 » Read Now

    by Michael L. Berger. 274 pgs.

    Collections: History, Entire Library
    ...the greatest revolutionizing force yet experienced by rural society." Yet not until 1972 was a scholarly study of the...Zimmerman, and Galpin term "the familistic basis on...

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