Academics from the UK, USA and Canada examine the processes of rural change brought about by the period of major restructuring in the developed market economies. They investigate social, economic and political factors affecting rural change.
"Important study examines peasant/caboclo society of the lower Brazilian Amazon, a largely neglected population in the anthropological literature on Amazonia. After discussing various representations of caboclos as 'marginal societies,' analysis focuses on local community organi…
"Important study examines peasant/caboclo society of the lower Brazilian Amazon, a largely neglected population in the anthropological literature on Amazonia. After discussing various representations of caboclos as 'marginal societies,' analysis focuses on local community organi…
This book is the most up-to-date and authoritative work on Indonesia's rural non-farm development characteristics and potential. The essays, by experts and well-known specialists in the field, emphasize the changing importance of off-farm income, employment contributions of smal…
This book retraces the nature and role of credit in the pre-industrial European countryside. As part of an ongoing examination of credit and its provision in European past societies, the nine papers collected in this volume offer further insight into the ways in which credit wa…
Charting the major patterns and processes of rural change affecting the English countryside, this text looks at the role of planning in shaping rural spaces, covering both the statutory comprehensive planning that emerged in the post-war period, as well as rural programme delive…