English villages conjure up rural harmony and a history of happy communities woven into the broader pageant of England's past. But each of them has a different story to tell, and it is usually a vibrant and an interesting one--a long way from those histories that become mere lis…
Focusing on the re-unification of Germany, this text asks what happens when a political and economic system collapses overnight. It concentrates especially on how these changes have affected certain "border zones" of daily life - including social organization, gender and religio…
Presents a discussion of agroecology at the village level, and was derived from the village study conducted by an interdisciplinary research team from the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University, at a Thai-Lao hamlet in Changwat Khon Kaen, Thailand over a period of …
This text presents a comprehensive collection of peasant writings during the early years of the Bolshevik regime. It presents over 150 letters addressed to newspapers, government officials and Communist Party leaders.
