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1	Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture more books like this by Wendell Berry add to wishlist Berry's assessment of modern agriculture and its relationship to American culture--our health, economy, personal relationships, morals, and spiritual values--is more timely than ever. This new edition of Berry's work presents a a classic testament to the value of the American family farm. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.15! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Three Tenant Families more books like this by James Agee, Walker Evans (Photographer) add to wishlist This documentary work on the cotton sharecroppers of Alabama began as an article for Fortune magazine but was rejected because Agee refused to adopt the sterile, objective voice of conventional journalism. The resulting book, published in 1941 with photos by Walker Evans, ultimately reveals as much about Agee as it did about his subjects. It also ... see all copies from $3.92! new only from $5.96! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	Postcards more books like this by E Annie Proulx add to wishlist Annie Proulx tells the story of Loyal Blood, who leaves the failing family farm in Vermont after World War II and goes west to see if he can do better. Each chapter in Loyal's odyssey is prefaced with one of the post cards he sends back home--where life is getting more and more bleak. Proulx's first novel, which is full of the daily minutiae of ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	Fortune's Hand more books like this by Belva Plain add to wishlist The conflict between fate and the choices we make dominates this novel chronicling the adult life of Southern gentleman Robb MacDaniel. Following the death of his parents, Robb leaves his post as a small-town school teacher, abandons his loyal fiancée, and heads off to a big-city law school. There he meets and weds sophisticated, wealthy, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	Q Road more books like this by Bonnie Jo Campbell add to wishlist Set on a single day in the autumn of 1999, this novel reaches back many years to tell the panoramic story of Kalamazoo County, Michigan, its history and the histories of its people, and the changes that have occurred over the course of nearly 200 years of strife. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions
6	Roseflower Creek more books like this by Jackie Lee Miles add to wishlist "The morning I died it rained. Poured down so hard it washed the blood off my face." Humorous, yet poignant, "Roseflower Creek" is a story of the loss of innocence and the power of forgiveness. see all copies from $7.57! new only from $7.57! \| SVS
7	Chinese Village, Socialist State more books like this by Edward Friedman, Professor Mark Selden, Professor Paul G Pickowicz add to wishlist This is a portrait of social change in the North China Plain which depicts how the world of the Chinese peasant evolved during an era of war and revolution and how it in turn shaped the revolutionary process. The authors spent a decade interviewing villagers and rural officials, exploring archives and investigating villagers with diverse resources ... see all copies from $7.66! new only from $23.10! \| first editions \| SVS
8	Worker in the Cane: A Puerto Rican Life History more books like this by Sidney W Mintz add to wishlist This is the absorbing story of Don Taso, a Puerto Rican sugar cane worker, and of his family and the village in which he lives. Told largely in his own words, it is a vivid account of the drastic changes taking place in Puerto Rico, as he sees them. see all copies from $2.77! new only from $10.57! \| first editions \| SVS
9	Let Us Now Praise Famous Men more books like this by James Agee, Walker Evans add to wishlist This documentary work on the cotton sharecroppers of Alabama began as an article for Fortune magazine but was rejected because Agee refused to adopt the sterile, objective voice of conventional journalism. The resulting book, published in 1941 with photos by Walker Evans, ultimately reveals as much about Agee as it did about his subjects. It also ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $16.21! \| first editions
10	Rural Communities: Legacy and Change more books like this by Cornelia Butler Flora, Jan L Flora add to wishlist Rural America is a complex mixture of peoples and cultures struggling for survival through innovative approaches to their problems. These people range from laid-off miners in West Virginia to Laotian immigrants relocating in Kansas to entrepreneurs planning a world-class ski resort in Californias Sierra Nevada. These rural Americans are seldom ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	A Tale of Two Valleys: Wine, Wealth and the Battle for the Good Life in Napa and Sonoma more books like this by Alan Deutschman add to wishlist TALE OF TWO VALLEYS examines the cultural and economic rift between the Napa and Sonoma Valleys. Deutschman employs the upscale Napa and bohemian Sonoma as a study in contrasts, illustrating two different strategies for regional development and prosperity. Throughout, reflections of the life unique to each locale punctuate the differences abound ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	The Remembered Village more books like this by Mysore Narasimhachar Srinivas add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $30.49! \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	The Twin more books like this by Gerbrand Bakker add to wishlist When his twin brother dies in a car accident, Helmer is obliged to return to the small family farm. He resigns himself to taking over his brother's role and spending the rest of his days 'with his head under a cow'. After his old, worn-out father has been transferred upstairs, Helmer sets about furnishing the rest of the house according to his own ... see all copies from $2.74! new only from $9.65! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	A Collector of Treasures more books like this by Bessie Head add to wishlist A collection of short stories based on life in a Botswanan village, including the story of a woman who murders the husband who deserted her years before. see all copies from $3.99! new only from $7.70! \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	Behind Mud Walls: Seventy-Five Years in a North Indian Village, Updated and Expanded Edition more books like this by William Wiser, Charlotte V Wiser, Susan S Wadley (Revised by) add to wishlist In 1925, William and Charlotte Wiser arrived in the North Indian village of Karimpur. Over the next five years they wrote one of the first studies of village India, originally published in 1930. This book traces the insightful story of the village and the people who came to study it. see all copies from $4.61! new only from $16.52!
16 view cover	The Spiral Road: Change in a Chinese Village Through the Eyes of a Communist Party Leader, Second Edition more books like this by Shu-Min Huang, Huang Shu-Min add to wishlist The leading Party cadre of Lin Village in southeast China describes in this book nearly fifty years of turbulent events that affected individuals and families in the village: the downfall of the landlords during the Land Reform, the rise of poor peasants to political power, the political fanaticism of the Great Leap Forward and the Great ... see all copies from $5.50! new only from $36.20! \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	Village bells. more books like this by Alain Corbin add to wishlist This title tells the story of lost sensory experiences and forgotten passions. In 19th century France, bells were the symbols of their towns and objects of ecclesiastic and civic pride. Bell-ringing served practical purposes of communication, marking both religious and secular time, as well as calling citizens to pray, assemble, take arms, or ... see all copies from $6.00! new only from $6.22! \| first editions
18 view cover	Peasants Into Frenchmen: The Modernization of Rural France, 1870-1914 more books like this by Eugen Joseph Weber add to wishlist see all copies from $21.00! new only from $29.46! \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	Broken Heartland: The Rise of America's Rural Ghetto more books like this by Osha Gray Davidson add to wishlist A study of poverty in the American countryside. The author concentrates on small towns and farm communities that have suffered economically in recent years, and lays much of the blame for lost jobs and waning productivity on the North American Free Trade Agreement. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $18.60! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	Will the Boat Sink the Water?: The Life of China's Peasants more books like this by Guidi Chen add to wishlist This is an expose of the inequality and injustice experienced by 900 million Chinese peasants, as told through a series of dramatic personal narratives that describe the arbitrary violence and powerlessness in the face of colossal corruption and grinding poverty. The Chinese economic miracle is happening despite, not because of, China's 900 ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	Rightful Resistance in Rural China more books like this by Kevin J O'Brien, Lianjiang Li add to wishlist How can the poor and weak 'work' a political system to their advantage? Drawing mainly on interviews and surveys in rural China, Kevin O'Brien and Lianjiang Li show that popular action often hinges on locating and exploiting divisions within the state. Otherwise powerless people use the rhetoric and commitments of the central government to try to ... see all copies from $20.48! new only from $20.48! \| SVS
22 view cover	Rural rides more books like this by William Cobbett add to wishlist Travelling on horseback through southern England in the early 19th century, William Cobbett provides evocative and accurate descriptions of the countryside, colourful accounts of his encounters with labourers, and indignant outbursts at the encroaching cities and the sufferings of the exploited poor. Ian Dyck's new edition places these lively ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $16.53! \| signed copies \| first editions
23	To the Mountain and Back: The Mysteries of Guatemalan Highland Family Life more books like this by Jody Glittenberg add to wishlist see all copies from $4.00! new only from $14.23! \| signed copies \| first editions
24 view cover	Across the River more books like this by Alice Taylor add to wishlist A river separates the Phelans and the Conways, two families in rural Ireland who nourish long-standing grudges. Now a younger generation wants to make changes, and Martha Phelan fears that things will only get worse. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.96! \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	Lao Peasants Under Socialism more books like this by Grant Evans add to wishlist see all copies from $4.95! new only from $4.95! \| first editions

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