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Danbom, David B. Born in the Country: A History of Rural America (3rd ed. 1995) online; focus on economics of farming. Danbom, David B. "Rural education reform and the country life movement, 1900-1920." Agricultural History 53.2 (1979): 462-474. online; Dant, Sara. Losing Eden: An Environmental History of the American West. (U of Nebraska Press ...
Measurements of rural vary, ranging from populations of 2,500 to 50,000. [1] The index developed by Cloke (1977) categorises all areas of England and Wales into four criteria: extreme rural, intermediate rural, intermediate non-rural and extreme non-rural; as well as urban areas. He used 16 different ways of drawing the conclusions for his ...
Rural areas in the United States, often referred to as rural America, [2] consists of approximately 97% of the United States' land area. An estimated 60 million people, or one in five residents (17.9% of the total U.S. population), live in rural America. Definitions vary from different parts of the United States government as to what ...
Rural areas in the United States, often referred to as rural America, [1] consists of approximately 97% of the United States' land area. An estimated 60 million people, or one in five residents (17.9% of the total U.S. population), live in rural America. Definitions vary from different parts of the United States government as to what ...
The Annenberg Rural Challenge was founded in July 1995 when a grant of $46.75 million was given by the Annenberg Challenge to study and implement school reform in rural America. [1] The Rural Challenge in turn gave hundreds of grants to rural communities in the United States. In 1999, the Annenberg Rural Challenge transitioned from grantmaking ...
The American Human Development Report is a biennial report on human well-being in the United States produced by Measure of America. It follows the human development concept, which is the process of expanding the well-being of individuals to develop their full potential, by increasing opportunities in the arenas of health, education, and income.
The Minds of the West: Ethnocultural Evolution in the Rural Middle West, 1830-1917 (1997) Goreham, Gary A. Encyclopedia of Rural America (2 vol 1997); 438pp; 232 essays by experts on arts, business, community development, economics, education, environmental issues, family, labor, quality of life, recreation, and sports. Hurt, Douglas, ed.
Poems about rural life are common, as pastoral poetry has been a common topic. [26] These poems often focus on and are associated with nature, but also focus on rural communities and the poets' own experience within those communities. There are many rural Native American poets, including Tommy Pico, [27] Joy Harjo, and Layli Long Soldier.