Transforming The Countryside

Author : Paul Brassley,Jeremy Burchardt,Karen Sayer
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2016-11-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317007517

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Transforming the Countryside by Paul Brassley,Jeremy Burchardt,Karen Sayer Pdf

It is now almost impossible to conceive of life in western Europe, either in the towns or the countryside, without a reliable mains electricity supply. By 1938, two-thirds of rural dwellings had been connected to a centrally generated supply, but the majority of farms in Britain were not linked to the mains until sometime between 1950 and 1970. Given the significance of electricity for modern life, the difficulties of supplying it to isolated communities, and the parallels with current discussions over the provision of high-speed broadband connections, it is surprising that until now there has been little academic discussion of this vast and protracted undertaking. This book fills that gap. It is divided into three parts. The first, on the progress of electrification, explores the timing and extent of electrification in rural England, Wales and Scotland; the second examines the effects of electrification on rural life and the rural landscape; and the third makes comparisons over space and time, looking at electrification in Canada and Sweden and comparing electrification with the current problems of rural broadband.

Author : Ronald L. Lewis
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2000-11-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807862971

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Transforming the Appalachian Countryside by Ronald L. Lewis Pdf

In 1880, ancient-growth forest still covered two-thirds of West Virginia, but by the 1920s lumbermen had denuded the entire region. Ronald Lewis explores the transformation in these mountain counties precipitated by deforestation. As the only state that lies entirely within the Appalachian region, West Virginia provides an ideal site for studying the broader social impact of deforestation in Appalachia, the South, and the eastern United States. Most of West Virginia was still dominated by a backcountry economy when the industrial transition began. In short order, however, railroads linked remote mountain settlements directly to national markets, hauling away forest products and returning with manufactured goods and modern ideas. Workers from the countryside and abroad swelled new mill towns, and merchants ventured into the mountains to fulfill the needs of the growing population. To protect their massive investments, capitalists increasingly extended control over the state's legal and political systems. Eventually, though, even ardent supporters of industrialization had reason to contemplate the consequences of unregulated exploitation. Once the timber was gone, the mills closed and the railroads pulled up their tracks, leaving behind an environmental disaster and a new class of marginalized rural poor to confront the worst depression in American history.

Author : Steven Hahn,Jonathan Prude
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2018-06-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469621463

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The Countryside in the Age of Capitalist Transformation by Steven Hahn,Jonathan Prude Pdf

This volume represents one of the first efforts to harvest the rapidly emerging scholarship in the field of American rural history. Building on the insights and methodologies that social historians have directed toward urban life, the contributors explore the past as it unfolded in the rural settings in which most Americans have lived during most of American history. The essays cover a broad range of topics: the character and consequences of manufacturing and consumerism in the antebellum countryside of the Northeast; the transition from slavery to freedom in Southern plantation and nonplantation regions; the dynamics of community-building and inheritance among Midwestern native and immigrant farmers; the panorama of rural labor systems in the Far West; and the experience of settled farming communities in periods of slowed economic growth. The central theme is the complex and often conflicting development of commercial and industrial capitalism in the American countryside. Together the essays place rural societies within the context of America's "Great Transformation."

Author : Sarah Neal,Julian Agyeman
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1861347952

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The New Countryside? by Sarah Neal,Julian Agyeman Pdf

Focusing on the countryside, this book explores issues of ethnicity, identity and racialised exclusion in rural Britain. It questions what the countryside 'is', problematises who is seen as belonging to rural spaces, and argues for the recognition of a rural multiculture.

Author : James W. Heinzen
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2004-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822970781

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Inventing a Soviet Countryside by James W. Heinzen Pdf

A balanced, thorough examination of the political, social, and cultural aspects of the Bolsheviks’ efforts to modernize the Russian peasantry.

Author : Open University
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1111036448

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The Changing Countryside by Open University Pdf

Author : Jerzy Bański
Publisher : Springer
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 303021236X

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Three Decades of Transformation in the East-Central European Countryside by Jerzy Bański Pdf

This book identifies, diagnoses and evaluates social and economic processes taking place in the rural areas of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) states in the last 25 years and affecting the immediate future, with a particular focus on their spatial diversity. It addresses questions related to the rationality of the current development policy and possible results in the future. Contemporary processes of socio-economic development are typified by the fact that spatial and regional disparities are tending to increase. This unfavourable phenomenon manifested both in society and in terms of polarised space needs to be counteracted using an effective development policy. The book highlights issues concerning demography, functional structure and non-agricultural activity, and identifies new challenges arising from membership of the European Union (EU). Accession to the EU and the opportunity to implement support measures has further increased the dynamism of transformation – a process that proceeded under various scenarios and different regulations and assumptions that have yet to be identified and evaluated. Furthermore, the current internal policies of individual CEE states concerning rural areas are diverse and likely to affect differential future development. The book is based on the knowledge and experience of scientists from countries in the region investigated, who have the best understanding of the subject matter and have observed the transformations. It is intended for researchers exploring the development of the countryside and practitioners dealing with regional and national development policies targeting rural areas.

Author : David R. Foster,Henry David Thoreau
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780674037151

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Thoreau's Country by David R. Foster,Henry David Thoreau Pdf

In 1977 David Foster took to the woods of New England to build a cabin with his own hands. Along with a few tools he brought a copy of the journals of Henry David Thoreau. Foster was struck by how different the forested landscape around him was from the one Thoreau described more than a century earlier. The sights and sounds that Thoreau experienced on his daily walks through nineteenth-century Concord were those of rolling farmland, small woodlands, and farmers endlessly working the land. As Foster explored the New England landscape, he discovered ancient ruins of cellar holes, stone walls, and abandoned cartways--all remnants of this earlier land now largely covered by forest. How had Thoreau's open countryside, shaped by ax and plough, divided by fences and laneways, become a forested landscape? Part ecological and historical puzzle, this book brings a vanished countryside to life in all its dimensions, human and natural, offering a rich record of human imprint upon the land. Extensive excerpts from the journals show us, through the vividly recorded details of daily life, a Thoreau intimately acquainted with the ways in which he and his neighbors were changing and remaking the New England landscape. Foster adds the perspective of a modern forest ecologist and landscape historian, using the journals to trace themes of historical and social change. Thoreau's journals evoke not a wilderness retreat but the emotions and natural history that come from an old and humanized landscape. It is with a new understanding of the human role in shaping that landscape, Foster argues, that we can best prepare ourselves to appreciate and conserve it today. From the journal: "I have collected and split up now quite a pile of driftwood--rails and riders and stems and stumps of trees--perhaps half or three quarters of a tree...Each stick I deal with has a history, and I read it as I am handling it, and, last of all, I remember my adventures in getting it, while it is burning in the winter evening. That is the most interesting part of its history. It has made part of a fence or a bridge, perchance, or has been rooted out of a clearing and bears the marks of fire on it...Thus one half of the value of my wood is enjoyed before it is housed, and the other half is equal to the whole value of an equal quantity of the wood which I buy." --October 20, 1855

Author : Carmelo Esterrich
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2018-07-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822983453

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Concrete and Countryside by Carmelo Esterrich Pdf

From the late 1940s to the early 1960s, Puerto Rico was swept by a wave of modernization, transforming the island from a predominantly rural society to an unquestionably urban one. A curious paradox ensued, however. While the island underwent rapid urbanization, and the rhetoric of economic development reigned over official discourses, the newly installed insular government, along with some academic circles and radio and television media, constructed, promoted, and sponsored a narrative of Puerto Rican culture based on rural subjects, practices, and spaces. By examining a wide range of cultural texts, but focusing on the film production of the Division of Community Education, the popular dance music of Cortijo y su combo, and the literary texts of Jose Luis Gonzalez and Rene Marques, Concrete and Countryside offers an in-depth analysis of how Puerto Ricans responded to this transformative period. It also shows how the arts used a battery of images of the urban and the rural to understand, negotiate, and critique the innumerable changes taking place on the island.

Author : Ronald L. Lewis
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0807847062

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Transforming the Appalachian Countryside by Ronald L. Lewis Pdf

In 1880, ancient-growth forest still covered two-thirds of West Virginia, but by the 1920s lumbermen had denuded the entire region. Historian Ronald Lewis explores the transformation in these mountain counties precipitated by deforestation that left behind both environmental and human poverty. 32 illustrations.

Author : Larry Rohter
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2012-02-28
Category : History
ISBN : 0230111777

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Brazil on the Rise by Larry Rohter Pdf

In this hugely praised narrative, New York Times reporter Larry Rohter takes the reader on a lively trip through Brazil's history, culture, and booming economy. Going beyond the popular stereotypes of samba, supermodels, and soccer, he shows us a stunning and varied landscape--from breathtaking tropical beaches to the lush and dangerous Amazon rainforest--and how a complex and vibrant people defy definition. He charts Brazil's amazing jump from a debtor nation to one of the world's fastest growing economies, unravels the myth of Brazil's sexually charged culture, and portrays in vivid color the underbelly of impoverished favelas. With Brazil leading the charge of the Latin American decade, this critically acclaimed history is the authoritative guide to understanding its meteoric rise.

Author : Rem Koolhaas,AMO.
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 3836584395

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Countryside by Rem Koolhaas,AMO. Pdf

From animals to robotization, climate change to migration, Rem Koolhaas presents a new collaborative project exploring how countryside everywhere is transforming beyond recognition. The pocketbook gathers in-depth essays spanning from Fukushima to the Netherlands, Siberia to Uganda - an urgent dispatch from this long-neglected realm, revealing its radical potential for changing everything about how we live

Author : Jörg Müller
Publisher : Heryin Books, Incorporated
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Cities and towns in art
ISBN : 0976205645

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The Changing Countryside by Jörg Müller Pdf

Seven illustrations show how a village changes between the years 1953 and 1972.

Author : Nigel Curry,John Blunden
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Country life
ISBN : 0749244151

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The Changing Countryside by Nigel Curry,John Blunden Pdf

Author : Adam Rome
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2001-04-23
Category : History
ISBN : 0521804906

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The Bulldozer in the Countryside by Adam Rome Pdf

The concern today about suburban sprawl is not new. In the decades after World War II, the spread of tract-house construction changed the nature of millions of acres of land, and a variety of Americans began to protest against the environmental costs of suburban development. By the mid-1960s, indeed, many of the critics were attempting to institutionalize an urban land ethic. The Bulldozer in the Countryside was the first scholarly work to analyze the successes and failures of the varied efforts to address the environmental consequences of suburban growth from 1945 to 1970. For scholars and students of American history, the book offers a compelling insight into two of the great stories of modern times - the mass migration to the suburbs and the rise of the environmental movement. The book also offers a valuable historical perspective for participants in contemporary debates about the alternatives to sprawl.