Ghost Settlement on the Prairie

Joseph V Hickey

• Hardcover | Engels | Rural America
• Four miles southeast of the village of Matfield Green in Chase County, Kansas--the heart of the Flint Hills--lies the abandoned settlement of Thurman.... Lees meer

The Bay Shrimpers of Texas

Robert Lee Maril

• Hardcover | Engels | Rural America
• Shrimpers who fish the shallow coastal waters of Texas fight a constant battle for survival--contending with shrimpers who fish the deeper gulf waters... Lees meer

Prairie Populism

Jeffrey Ostler

• Hardcover | Engels | Rural America
• The Plains states in the late 1800s flung open their political doors to the Populist party while their fellow midwestern neighbors to the east left it... Lees meer

The Changing American Countryside

• Paperback | Engels | Rural America
• The literature on rural America, to the extent that it exists, has largely been written by urban-based scholars perpetuating out-of-date notions and s... Lees meer

Rutherford B. Hayes

Ari Hoogenboom

• Hardcover | Engels | Rural America
• Who was the real Rutherford B. Hayes? Was he a great or inconsequential president? How did his early life and career shape his later years? How did hi... Lees meer

New Governance for Rural America

Beryl A Radin, Robert Agranoff, Ann Bowman, C Gregory Buntz

• Paperback | Engels | Rural America
• Throughout the 1990s public demand for a fundamental shift in the relationship between government and its citizens has intensified. In response, a "ne... Lees meer

The Changing American Countryside

• Hardcover | Engels | Rural America
• The literature on rural America, to the extent that it exists, has largely been written by urban-based scholars perpetuating out-of-date notions and s... Lees meer

The Bay Shrimpers of Texas

Robert Lee Maril

• Paperback | Engels | Rural America
• Shrimpers who fish the shallow coastal waters of Texas fight a constant battle for survival--contending with shrimpers who fish the deeper gulf waters... Lees meer

From Columbus to Conagra

William Friedland, Lourdes Gouveia, Enzo Mingione

• Paperback | Engels | Rural America
• The Chinese gooseberry was a minor fruit until New Zealanders, tagging it with a catchier name, began an aggressive global marketing campaign. Soon, t... Lees meer

Any Way You Cut It

Michael J. Broadway, David Griffith

• Paperback | Engels | Rural America
• In pursuit of jobs and economic development, many rural communities have attracted large meat, poultry, and fish processing plants owned by transnatio... Lees meer

Dust Bowl Migrants in the American Imagination

Charles J Shindo

• Hardcover | Engels | Rural America
• More than any other event of the 1930s, the migration of thousands of jobless and dispossessed Americans from the Dust Bowl states to the "promised la... Lees meer

Gulf Coast Soundings

E Paul Durrenberger

• Hardcover | Engels | Rural America
• Fisheries issues have been attracting increasing media attention in the wake of contamination scares, controversies over new government regulations, a... Lees meer

Forgotten Places (PB)

Thomas A. Lyson, William W. Falk

• Paperback | Engels | Rural America
• On the surface they look very different--rugged northern New England with its primarily White population, the arid Lower Rio Grande Valley inhabited m... Lees meer

Rooted in Dust

Pamela Riney-Kehrberg

• Paperback | Engels | Rural America
• Fontell Littrell's grandmother was a devout Latter-Day Saint. But when Fontell's father turned to bootlegging and poker to support an extended family ... Lees meer

Gulf Coast Soundings

E Paul Durrenberger

• Paperback | Engels | Rural America
• Fisheries issues have been attracting increasing media attention in the wake of contamination scares, controversies over new government regulations, a... Lees meer

Getting by

Christina E Gringeri

• Paperback | Engels | Rural America
• In this book Christina Gringeri investigates the effects of homeworking on workers--mainly women--and their families and explores the role of the stat... Lees meer