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Rural Studies Books
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Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as rural-studies)
avg rating 3.76 — 16,914 ratings — published 2018
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as rural-studies)
avg rating 3.83 — 514,691 ratings — published 2016
Out in the Country: Youth, Media, and Queer Visibility in Rural America (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as rural-studies)
avg rating 3.78 — 184 ratings — published 2009
A Home I(n Walker Valley - The Story of Tremont (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as rural-studies)
avg rating 3.30 — 10 ratings — published 2009
Hazel Creek: The Life and Death of an Iconic Mountain Community (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as rural-studies)
avg rating 4.11 — 9 ratings — published
Letters from the Smokies (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as rural-studies)
avg rating 4.67 — 3 ratings — published
History Hikes of The Smokies (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as rural-studies)
avg rating 4.57 — 7 ratings — published 2003
Hipbillies: Deep Revolution in the Arkansas Ozarks (Ozarks Studies)
by (shelved 1 time as rural-studies)
avg rating 3.75 — 61 ratings — published
Extracting Home in the Oil Sands: Settler Colonialism and Environmental Change in Subarctic Canada (Arctic Worlds)
by (shelved 1 time as rural-studies)
avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published
Putting Down Roots: Métis Agency, Land Use, and Women’s Food Labour in a Qu’Appelle Valley Road Allowance Community (paskwāwi masinahikewina/Prairie Writing, 2)
by (shelved 1 time as rural-studies)
avg rating 4.57 — 7 ratings — published
TVA and the Dispossessed: The Resettlement of Population In The Norris Dam Area (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as rural-studies)
avg rating 4.33 — 9 ratings — published 1981
Legacy of Faith: Rural Methodist Churches in North Carolina (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as rural-studies)
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published
Urban Farming in the West: A New Deal Experiment in Subsistence Homesteads (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as rural-studies)
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 2010
The Maya of Morganton: Work and Community in the Nuevo New South (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as rural-studies)
avg rating 3.72 — 78 ratings — published 2003
The Roots of Penderlea: A Memoir of a New Deal Homestead Community (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as rural-studies)
avg rating 3.00 — 1 rating — published 2008
Power and Powerlessness: Quiescence & Rebellion in an Appalachian Valley (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as rural-studies)
avg rating 4.17 — 333 ratings — published 1980
Remaking the Rural South: Interracialism, Christian Socialism, and Cooperative Farming in Jim Crow Mississippi (Politics and Culture in the Twentieth-Century South)
by (shelved 1 time as rural-studies)
avg rating 4.50 — 2 ratings — published
Appalachian Ecocriticism and the Paradox of Place (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as rural-studies)
avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published
Mennonite Farmers: A Global History of Place and Sustainability (Young Center Books in Anabaptist and Pietist Studies)
by (shelved 1 time as rural-studies)
avg rating 2.00 — 4 ratings — published
Mountains Piled upon Mountains: Appalachian Nature Writing in the Anthropocene (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as rural-studies)
avg rating 3.91 — 23 ratings — published
Child of the Woods: An Appalachian Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as rural-studies)
avg rating 4.42 — 12 ratings — published
The Splendor of Brasstown Valley: Mountain Folks (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as rural-studies)
avg rating 3.00 — 1 rating — published 2006
Hands in Harmony: Traditional Crafts and Music in Appalachia (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as rural-studies)
avg rating 4.40 — 10 ratings — published 2009
The Livelihood of Kin: Making Ends Meet "The Kentucky Way" (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as rural-studies)
avg rating 4.00 — 4 ratings — published 1990
To Live Here, You Have to Fight: How Women Led Appalachian Movements for Social Justice (Working Class in American History)
by (shelved 1 time as rural-studies)
avg rating 4.32 — 136 ratings — published 2019
Reformers to Radicals: The Appalachian Volunteers and the War on Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as rural-studies)
avg rating 3.44 — 16 ratings — published 2008
A Space on the Side of the Road (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as rural-studies)
avg rating 3.86 — 154 ratings — published 1996
Far From the Madding Crowd (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as rural-studies)
avg rating 3.97 — 170,811 ratings — published 1874
Adam Bede (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as rural-studies)
avg rating 3.83 — 26,773 ratings — published 1859
Scenes of Clerical Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as rural-studies)
avg rating 3.81 — 3,327 ratings — published 1857
Cavalleria Rusticana and Other Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as rural-studies)
avg rating 3.65 — 328 ratings — published 1896
Wieland and Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist (Penguin Classics)
by (shelved 1 time as rural-studies)
avg rating 3.37 — 2,388 ratings — published 1798
Edgar Huntly or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as rural-studies)
avg rating 3.07 — 1,825 ratings — published 1799
Letters from an American Farmer and Sketches of Eighteenth-Century America (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as rural-studies)
avg rating 3.41 — 295 ratings — published 1968
Life and Adventures of Joaquin Murieta: Celebrated California Bandit (Volume 4) (The Western Frontier Library Series)
by (shelved 1 time as rural-studies)
avg rating 3.09 — 709 ratings — published 1854
Rural Rides (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as rural-studies)
avg rating 3.53 — 155 ratings — published 1830
Something in These Hills: The Culture of Family Land in Southern Appalachia (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as rural-studies)
avg rating 3.80 — 5 ratings — published 2022
Rightful Resistance in Rural China (Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics)
by (shelved 1 time as rural-studies)
avg rating 3.80 — 40 ratings — published 2006
Women, Power, and Dissent in the Hills of Carolina (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as rural-studies)
avg rating 3.46 — 13 ratings — published 2002
In the Lion's Mouth: Black Populism in the New South, 1886-1900 (Margaret Walker Alexander Series in African American Studies)
by (shelved 1 time as rural-studies)
avg rating 3.79 — 19 ratings — published 2010
Tevye the Dairyman and Motl the Cantor's Son (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as rural-studies)
avg rating 4.18 — 543 ratings — published
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as rural-studies)
avg rating 3.97 — 4,086 ratings — published 1941
Spring Came On Forever (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as rural-studies)
avg rating 4.16 — 585 ratings — published 1935
A Lantern in Her Hand (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as rural-studies)
avg rating 4.20 — 7,560 ratings — published 1928
Two or Three Things I Know for Sure (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as rural-studies)
avg rating 4.13 — 6,331 ratings — published 1995
A Bride Goes West (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as rural-studies)
avg rating 4.04 — 341 ratings — published 1942
Bastard Out of Carolina (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as rural-studies)
avg rating 4.15 — 49,133 ratings — published 1992
The Limits of Agrarian Radicalism: Western Populism and American Politics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as rural-studies)
avg rating 3.40 — 5 ratings — published 1995
Back to the Land: The Enduring Dream of Self-Sufficiency in Modern America (Studies in American Thought and Culture)
by (shelved 1 time as rural-studies)
avg rating 4.14 — 14 ratings — published 2011
The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man's Love Affair with Nature (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as rural-studies)
avg rating 4.22 — 3,467 ratings — published 2016