A Century of Change in a Chinese Village : The Crisis of the Countryside 9781538112366, 9781538112359

Village England: A Social History of the Countryside 9780755623419, 9781860649394

The romantic imagery of village England and the prominence that this commands in English cultural identity is well known

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Fanshen: a documentary of revolution in a Chinese village 9780520210400

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The Temple of Memories: History, Power, and Morality in a Chinese Village 9780804764926

This study focuses on the politics of memory in the village of Dachuan in northwest China, in which 85 percent of the vi

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Villa to Village: The Transformation of the Roman Countryside in Italy, C.400-1000 0715631926

"In Villa to Village Riccardo Francovich and Richard Hodges challenge the historical view that hilltop villages in

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Private Life under Socialism: Love, Intimacy, and Family Change in a Chinese Village, 1949-1999

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A Localized Culture of Welfare : Entitlements, Stratification, and Identity in a Chinese Lineage Village 9780739178577, 9780739166871

Hong Kong has undergone rapid and substantial social, economic, political and demographic changes since the 1970s. This

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Baroque Seville: Sacred Art in a Century of Crisis 9780271079431

Baroque art flourished in seventeenth-century Seville during a tumultuous period of economic decline, social conflict, a

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I Ching : The Book of Change : A New Translation of the Ancient Chinese Text 0525472126

The I Ching , or Book of Changes, is one of the 1st efforts of the human mind to place itself within the universe. It ha

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Cottage Country in Transition: A Social Geography of Change and Contention in the Rural-Recreational Countryside 9780773567191

The cottage is a powerful image of rural Canada. This image, however, often ignores the rural community that surrounds i

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A Gift from Brittany: A Memoir of Love and Loss in the French Countryside 142959148X, 9781101217047

The enchanting memoir of an artist?s liberating sojourn in France during the sixties?and the friendship that transformed

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