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subject:"Social Science / Sociology / Rural" from books.google.com
J. D. Vance tells the true story of what a social, regional, and class decline feels like when you were born with it hung around your neck. The Vance family story begins hopefully in postwar America.
subject:"Social Science / Sociology / Rural" from books.google.com
Presenting both an inspiring and a troubling perspective on American democracy, this 2004 Pulitzer Prize winner is the epic story of how African Americans, in the six decades following slavery, transformed themselves to a political people- ...
subject:"Social Science / Sociology / Rural" from books.google.com
With The Politics of Resentment, Katherine J. Cramer uncovers an oft-overlooked piece of the puzzle: rural political consciousness and the resentment of the “liberal elite.” Rural voters are distrustful that politicians will respect the ...
subject:"Social Science / Sociology / Rural" from books.google.com
Words and photographs describe the daily lives of typical sharecropper families in the American South.
subject:"Social Science / Sociology / Rural" from books.google.com
When her 30-year marriage broke up, Hubbell retreated to the country where she found solace in the natural world.
subject:"Social Science / Sociology / Rural" from books.google.com
"--Donna R. Gabaccia, University of Minnesota "By using previously untapped sources of data--including oral history among barrio dwellers in Santo Domingo and migrants in New York City--this book goes well beyond previous works that focus ...
subject:"Social Science / Sociology / Rural" from books.google.com
The dime novel and dude ranch, the barbecue and rodeo, the suburban ranch house and the urban cowboy—all are a direct legacy of nineteenth-century cowboy life that still enlivens American popular culture.
subject:"Social Science / Sociology / Rural" from books.google.com
"This book--the first ethnography of water conservation on the Great Plains--provides an account of High Plains aquifer decline through an exploration of the different ways in which heartland residents inhabit and understand the imminent ...
subject:"Social Science / Sociology / Rural" from books.google.com
It is also the story of Bragg's father, a hard-drinking man with a murderous temper and the habit of running out on the people who needed him most.
subject:"Social Science / Sociology / Rural" from books.google.com
Howard's unparalleled history of "queer" life in the South shows how homosexuality flourished in the conservative institutions of small-town life, interspersing the life stories of both the ordinary and the famous. 22 halftones. 4 maps.