Download or read book Reclaiming the Rural written by Kim Donehower and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reclaiming the Rural moves beyond typical arguments for the preservation, abandonment, or modernization of rural communities, analyzing how communities in the United States, Canada, and Mexico sustain themselves--economically, environmentally, intellectually, and politically--through literate action.
Download or read book Rural Essays written by Andrew Jackson Downing and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Best Person Rural written by Noel Perrin and published by David R. Godine Publisher. This book was released on 2016-04-15 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1963, Noel Perrin, a 35-year-old professor of English at Dartmouth College, bought an 85-acre farm in Thetford Center, Vermont. For the next forty years he spent half his time teaching, half writing, and half farming. "That this adds up to three halves I am all too aware," he said, sounding a characteristic, self-deprecating note of bittersweet amusement at the chalk on his coat, the sweat on his brow, and the mud (and worse) on his boots. "I love this farm," he wrote shortly before his death in 2004, "every acre of it. The maples, the apple trees, the cattle, the wild turkeys. I love the brick farmhouse, which I believe to be about 190 years old ... and the two barns. I love the view from the kitchen window ... and the grander view to be had if you climb Bill Hill, the farm's in-house mini-mountain. The thing that delights me most, though, is that the farm really is a farm. It produces a little food every year, and most years a little fuel as well." It also produced four volumes of essays, beginning with the best-selling First Person Rural (1978). Some of Perrin's pieces are practical (how to build a stone wall), others philosophical (why to build a stone wall). One pretends to be about amateur sugar making, but it is really a metaphor for reality and illusion. Another pretends to be about the country as a retreat, but is really about the country as a place to meet the world head-on. One is a dangerous character sketch of a sow – dangerous, because as Roy Blount said after reading it, "It almost made me decide to go ahead and get pigs." In short, these essays are as good as the literature of farming gets. Best Person Rural is a harvest feast, bringing together twenty of Perrin's best-loved pieces and five previously uncollected items, including his moving "Farewell to a Thetford Farm."
Download or read book Rural Essays Edited with a memoir of the author by G W Curtis and a letter to his friends by F Bremer written by Andrew Jackson Downing and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book First Person Rural written by Noel Perrin and published by David R. Godine Publisher. This book was released on 1994-09 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These essays, all concerned with countryish things, range from intensely practical to mildly literary. Transplanted from New York fifteen years ago and now a real-life Vermont farmer, Noel Perrin candidly admits to hilarious early mistakes ("In Search of the Perfect Fence Post") while presenting down-to-earth advice on such rural necessities as "Sugaring on $15 a Year," "Raising Sheep," and "Making Butter in the Kitchen." But, as everyone who has read his essays in The New Yorker, Country Journal, and Vermont Life will confirm, not everything Perrin writes is strictly about the exigencies of country life. While one essay seems to discuss the use of wooden sap buckets, it really addresses the nature of illusion and reality as they coexist in rural places.
Download or read book Rural Oeconomy or Essays on the practical parts of husbandry By the author of the Farmer s letters i e Arthur Young Second edition corrected With The Rural Socrates by Hans C Hirzel With notes by Arthur Young written by and published by . This book was released on 1773 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rural Oeconomy or Essays on the practical parts of husbandry By the author of the Farmer s Letters i e Arthur Young With The Rural Socrates by Hans C Hirzel With notes by Arthur Young written by and published by . This book was released on 1770 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book China s Gentry written by Hsiao-tung Fei and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1980-09-15 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These seven essays on the structure of Chinese society are based on articles contributed by Fei to Chinese newspapers in 1947 and 1948. Six case histories from a study of the gentry by Yung-teh Chow are appended. "The chief interest and charm of this book lie in the fact that it is not directed to the Western reader; these were studies written in Chinese, by an erudite Chinese, for a Chinese public. . . . Mrs. Redfield is to be complimented for her own careful research in preparing this translation for a non-Chinese public."—Robert F. Spencer, American Anthropologist
Download or read book Rural Oeconomy Or Essays on the Practical Parts of Husbandry Designed to Explain Several of the Most Important Methods of Conducting Farms of Various Kinds Including Many Useful Hints to Gentlemen Farmers Relative to the Oeconomical Management of Their Business To which is Added The Rural Socrates Being Memoirs of a Country Philosopher By the Author of the Farmer s Letters written by Arthur Young and published by . This book was released on 1770 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rural Essays written by Andrew Jackson Downing and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book ESSAYS RELATING TO AGRICULTURE AND RURAL AFFAIRS written by James Anderson and published by . This book was released on 1800 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Essays Relating to Agriculture and Rural Affairs The Fifth Edition with Corrections and Additions By James Anderson written by James Anderson and published by . This book was released on 1800 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rural Essays written by Andrew Jackson Downing and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2013-01 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Download or read book Essays on the Political Economy of Rural Africa written by Robert H. Bates and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1987-04-20 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this volume represent a dialogue between theory and data. The theory is drawn from a branch of contemporary political economy which can also be labeled the collective-choice school. The data are drawn from Africa. The book extends the methods of reasoning developed in collective choice from their original base-the advanced industrial democracies-to new territory; the literature on rural Africa. Such as extension challenges the power of this form of political economy. It also enriches it, for the central questions which motivate the contemporary study of political economy are often addressed with unique clarity in the scholarship on rural Africa.
Download or read book Rural Essays written by Andrew Jackson Downing and published by Scholarly Pub Office Univ of. This book was released on 2006-09 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rural Essays written by Aj Downing and published by Arkose Press. This book was released on 2015-10-23 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book The Countryside in the Age of Capitalist Transformation written by Steven Hahn and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2018-06-15 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume represents one of the first efforts to harvest the rapidly emerging scholarship in the field of American rural history. Building on the insights and methodologies that social historians have directed toward urban life, the contributors explore the past as it unfolded in the rural settings in which most Americans have lived during most of American history. The essays cover a broad range of topics: the character and consequences of manufacturing and consumerism in the antebellum countryside of the Northeast; the transition from slavery to freedom in Southern plantation and nonplantation regions; the dynamics of community-building and inheritance among Midwestern native and immigrant farmers; the panorama of rural labor systems in the Far West; and the experience of settled farming communities in periods of slowed economic growth. The central theme is the complex and often conflicting development of commercial and industrial capitalism in the American countryside. Together the essays place rural societies within the context of America's "Great Transformation."
