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First published in 1999, Worlds Apart examines poverty through the stories of real people in rural New England, Appalachia, and the Mississippi Delta. In this new edition, Duncan returns to her original research, interviewing some of the same people as well as new key informants. The work provides powerful new insights into the dynamics of poverty, politics, and community change.--Back cover.
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The twentieth century was one of profound transformation in rural America. "Challenges for Rural America in the Twenty-First Century" defines these changes and interprets their implications for the future of rural America.Essays have been specially commissioned to examine key aspects of public policy relevant to rural America in the new century." From book jacket.
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"Welfare Reform in Persistent Rural Poverty sheds welcome light on the opportunities and challenges that welfare reform has imposed on low-income families situated in disadvantaged areas. Combining both qualitative and quantitative research, it will be an excellent guide for scholars and practitioners alike seeking to address the problem of poverty in rural America."--Jacket.
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Ranging from pre-Columbian times to the enormous changes of the twentieth century, Born in the Country integrates agricultural, technological, and economic themes with new questions social historians have raised about the American experience--including the different experiences of whites and blacks, men and women, natives and new immigrants. --From publisher's description.
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Publisher description -- Walker Evans' work was spread over forty-six fitful and prolific years, yet in a scant two years, 1935-1936, he produced a singular body of work that defined his career. In the process he refined a hybrid style which combined documentation with sly personal comment. During that brief time he worked for the Farm Security Administration (previously the U.S. Resettlement Administration) photographing the consequences of the Great...
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"Hot Towns is about the current, vast national relocation of one million Americans a year, who take with them assets greater than the entire real estate value of New York City. Successful, accomplished, and well-financed people of all ages are moving to communities they view as choice - places distinguished by fine climate, physical beauty, abundant natural recreation resources, and minimal social problems and low crime."--Jacket.
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"Consumers in the Country Ronald Kline, avoiding the trap of technological determinism, explores the changing relationships among the Country Life professionals, government agencies, sales people, and others who promoted these technologies and the farm families who largely succeeded in adapting the technologies to rural culture."--Jacket.
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An in-depth study of the disintegration of rural communities and the spread of homelessness, hunger, poverty, and despair throughout America's heartland. Based on interviews with more than two hundred rural residents, social workers, governmental officials, and scholars. Portrays life in dying communities riddled with farm foreclosures, plant closings, and conglomeratization.
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