Bøger i Rural America serien

"Addresses the whole of rural America in a comprehensive manner. A valuable and significant endeavor". -- Dwight Billings, author of Planters and the Makers of a New South. "Covers everything you need to know about rural America". -- Gene Wunderlich, USDA Economic Research Service.

'This book, of course, is about more than a single Kansas town because the tiny, shifting community of Thurman becomes, in Hickey's interpretation, an epitome of settlements across the American West...Above all, for me, this is a book about sharing about the perils of excessive individualism. In extinct Thurman we have a disturbing and relevant paradigm.'William Least Heat-Moon

"A superb addition to the growing literature reevaluating the political leaders of the Gilded Age". -- Journal of American History. "A thorough, insightful, and fair-minded book that will earn for Hayes the enhanced reputation that is his due". -- Civil War History.

In this analysis of the National and State Rural Development Councils (NRDC and SRDC), the authors examine the successes and failures of the original eight councils in Kansas, Maine, Mississippi, Oregon, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas and Washington.

This work aims to show how public memory of the dust bowl migration has been dominated by a handful of artists and would-be reformers. The text examines images from photography, fiction, film and song and marks off the distances between these representations and the realities of migrant life.

Many rural communities attract meat, poultry and fish processing plants owned by transnational corporations. They often bring social disorder in their wake (incoming workers). This work offers anthropological, geographical, sociological, journalist and industrial perspectives on the issue.

Combines current theory on globalisation of food with case studies to discuss the changing agricultural and food system in the era of ConAgra and other large transnational corporations. This volume looks at the operations of these corporate giants and examines the winners and losers.