
	Where results make sense

Topic: Rural America in a New Century

Related Topics

Rural sociology

List of literature on rural sociology

Why Americans Value Rural Life

Types of rural communities

United States Department of Agriculture

Agribusiness

Sociology

Human ecology

Evolution of societies

Karl Marx

Medical sociology

Charles Darwin

France

Herbert Spencer

Process

In the News (Fri 18 Dec 09)

Northern Trust

Marvin Harrison

Peter Chernin

Gary Locke

Match Play

Penelope Cruz

Mickey Rourke

AR Rahman

Danny Boyle

Hugh Jackman

	Mark Drabenstott - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mark Drabenstott is a vice-president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City and the director of the Center for the Study of Rural America (CSRA).
		Rural America in a New Century was an October 1999 report by Mark Drabenstott, for the Center for the Study of Rural America's newsletter The Main Street Economist.
		The second section is titled, "A new farm crisis?" and argues that it is important that the government expands its assistance to rural communities.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mark_Drabenstott (225 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: The Reformation
		The pope's removal to Avignon in the fourteenth century was a grievous error, since the universal character of the papacy was thus obscured in the minds of the Christian people.
		The Edict of Amboise granted new favours to the Calvinistic nobles, although the earlier edict of tolerance was withdrawn.
		During the reign of Charles V the seventeen provinces of the Netherlands remained fairly immune from the infection of the new doctrine.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/12700b.htm (10530 words)

	Metropolitan America in the New Century: Metropolitan and Central City Demographic Shifts Since 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		New York and Los Angeles remain the biggest immigrant magnets in the 2000-to- 2004 period, but continue to lose the most domestic migrants to other parts of the nation.
		Large and small metro areas in the West grew at the same pace in the early 2000s, while rural or "non-metropolitan areas" as a whole lost population in the Midwest.
		In general, the first half of the 2000s mark a slowdown and reshuffling of population growth in metro areas from that found in the 1990s, reflecting the reactions of workers and households to the cooling of the job market in some places and the heating of housing prices in others.
	www.brook.edu /metro/pubs/20050906_MetroAmerica.htm (656 words)

	CPD; Central America regional overview
		The Central American region is a land bridge connecting North America and South America, extending diagonally from north-west to south-east and separating the Pacific Ocean from the Caribbean Sea.
		New technologies and motorized machinery such as chain saws and bulldozers facilitate building roads and clearing the land.
		Half of all the energy consumed in Central America comes from fuelwood, and the demand is increasing along with the number of small and medium-sized rural industries; less than 10% of the whole region's energy is produced hydroelectrically.
	www.nmnh.si.edu /botany/projects/cpd/ma/macentral.htm (8395 words)

	Genders OnLine Journal - Eugenic Feminisms in Late Nineteenth-Century America: Reading Race in Victoria Woodhull, ...
		New scholarship argues that eugenics constituted a twentieth-century cultural dominant, shaping language and the norming power central to many aspects of contemporary life.
		Instead of the "new abolition" that figures in the work of her white contemporaries, Cooper continually reminds her audience that the legacy of enslavement persists in white men's sexual abuse of fl women.
		With this new emphasis on the American environment, in particular the behavior of Southern land owners, she foregrounds the impact of historical conditions on African American achievement.
	www.genders.org /g31/g31_athey.html (13258 words)

	Spy of the Century?
		Born in 1939, he was one of 10 children of poor farmers from Nantou, a rural area of Taiwan, near Taichung.
		A son, Chung, was born in New Jersey in 1972, and a daughter, Alberta, in San Diego in 1973.
		Some designs so closely mirrored America's own bombs, particularly the W-88 mini-warhead, that a determination was made that the technology must have been passed to the Chinese.
	www.gluckman.com /WenHoLee.html (2766 words)

	Southern Rural Sociological Association -- Main Page
		Rural sociologists, sociologists, anthropologists, agricultural and resource economists, extension specialists, natural resource and environmental specialists, home economists, rural and regional development specialists and other professionals whose research has implications for rural life and rural communities are invited to participate in our meetings and publish in our journal.
		Formerly rural counties that have been reclassified as urban since 1970 grew in population by more than 80% between 1970 and 2000, the authors note, compared with a 32% growth rate for counties that were already considered metropolitan in 1970.
		Rural Governance Innovations Focus of New Report -- Innovations in rural governance are the focus of the just-released 2003 Annual Report of the Center for the Study of Rural America.
	www.ag.auburn.edu /srs (3292 words)

	washingtonpost.com: Myth of the Melting Pot: America's Racial and Ethnic Divides
		It is clear that not all of America is experiencing the impact of immigration equally.
		New York and Los Angeles each lost more than 1 million native-born residents between 1990 and 1995, even as their populations increased by roughly the same numbers with immigrants.
		The hard-working new arrivals struggle along with a new language and at low-paying jobs in order for their sons and daughters to climb the economic ladder, each generation advancing a rung.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/national/longterm/meltingpot/melt0222.htm (3077 words)

	David L. Brown and Louis Swanson, eds.: Challenges for Rural America in the Twenty-First Century
		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.
		is Professor of Rural Sociology at Cornell University and former President of the Rural Sociological Society.
	www.psupress.org /books/titles/0-271-02241-8.html (464 words)

	The Enlightenment
		In the 14th and 15th century there emerged in Italy and France a group of thinkers known as the "humanists." The term did not then have the anti-religious associations it has in contemporary political debate.
		The history of philosophy from his time to the early 20th century is partly the story of more and more ingenious logic proving less and less, until Ludwig Wittgenstein succeeded in undermining the very bases of philosophy itself.
		The 17th century was torn by witch-hunts and wars of religion and imperial conquest.
	www.wsu.edu /~brians/hum_303/enlightenment.html (3548 words)

	Rural Policy in a New Century (SMEALSearch) - Pal,Rangaswamy,Giles,Debnath (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		This report first noted some of the major economic stresses afflicting rural America in the 1980s: slow rural growth and high unemployment, reduced population growth, and underdeveloped human resources.
		The report noted that throughout the 20th century a disproportionate share of the nation's poor resided in rural areas, and unlike metro poverty, rural poverty did not decline with the recovery from the recession of the early 1980s.
		Moreover, the rural poor were more likely to be elderly, white, working, and living in the South.
	gunther.smeal.psu.edu /19479.html (257 words)

	Sustainable Agriculture and Rural Development...Concept
		Systematic change involves the addition of new fields and associated features that are constructed completely prior to cultivation; incremental change involves gradual transformation of fields and features in conjunction with cultivation.
		New production technologies and improved plant varieties must be developed, and a better insight must be gained into the links betwen machinery, soil, plants, and animals.
		CNIRD's mission is to highlight the importance of rural areas and to ensure the involvement of rural people in the planning and implementation of activities pursued in different sectors for the development of their communities.
	www.iisd.org /ic/info/ss9507.htm (7491 words)

	The American Experience \| Andrew Carnegie \| Gilded Age
		In New York, the opera, the theatre, and lavish parties consumed the ruling class' leisure hours.
		Rural Americans and new immigrants crowded into urban areas.
		America may have had money and factories, they felt, but it lacked sophistication.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/carnegie/gildedage.html (349 words)

	News and Commentary for the Person that Questions the Media
		That way America can be the victim of another September 11, 2001 attack by Arabs that know that the United States government is financially supporting the creation of illegal Israeli settlements on Palestinian Arab lands as defined by the United Nation when Israel was officially recognized by the United Nations as an independent country.
		That grim assessment is, of course, not the imagery favored by the U.S. news media as it resumes its role of courtier press, lavishing praise on Bush and his neoconservative advisers as heroic visionaries leading the Middle East to freedom.
		This was the new clean war in which civilians would not be harmed as ‘smart’ technology enabled ‘surgical strikes’.
	home.cfl.rr.com /newsfreedom (17384 words)

	Rural Womyn Zone
		I don’t know if she was inferring that we should be concerned about card-carrying communists and socialists, or if she was referring to uncontrolled, unconscionable capitalism, or perhaps to leaders who seek to control election outcomes and destroy their political opponents.
		The Rural Womyn Zone was created by rural women to be a place where rural women's voices could be heard.
		The Center's success drew new venom from right-wing commentators who have fanned fears of post-9/11 terrorist infiltration from the south.
	www.ruralwomyn.net (3184 words)

	Native Americans in the U.S. Military
		Their courage, determination, and fighting spirit were recognized by American military leaders as early as the 18th century.
		As the military entered the 20th century, American Indians had already made a substantial contribution through military service and were on the brink of playing an even larger role.
		With the 21st century on the horizon, the United States military can be expected to provide continuing opportunity for Native American men and women.
	www.history.navy.mil /faqs/faq61-1.htm (1899 words)

	America's Outdoor History Museums
		America’s largest outdoor living history museum, Colonial Williamsburg is the restored 18th-century capital of Virginia and the birthplace of our nation’s democratic ideals and values.
		Historic New England is operated by the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities.
		New at Old Sturbridge Village is Samson’s Children’s Museum, a hands-on family activity center especially for children ages three to seven.
	www.outdoorhistory.org (2477 words)

	Project for the OLD American Century-liberal news from unbiased sources
		Fabricated Links?: A secret draft CIA report raises new questions about a principal argument used by the Bush administration to justify the war in Iraq: the claim that Saddam Hussein was "harboring" notorious terror leader Abu Mussab al-Zarqawi prior to the American invasion.
		A new report on global warming warns extreme weather events such as heat waves, floods and drought will increase in "frequency and severity" over the next century, affecting the US severely.
		Rather, it has set loose the predatory greed of the 19th century robber barons, the class cannibalism of Social Darwinism, and the winner-take-all rapacity of laissez faire capitalism.
	www.oldamericancentury.org (3195 words)

	Homelessness in America (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		For nearly four decades, America’s approach to social problems has been dominated by a scientific methodology and culture whose practical those behaviors independent of a more fundamental causal connection to the spiritual dynamics of the human person.
		This major new work is the most current, comprehensive, and authoritative publication available today on the broad social issue of homelessness.
		The Ending Homelessness in America forum was sponsored by the National Neighborhood Coalition, whose goal is to build and maintain healthy neighborhoods across the country, especially those that lower-income residents call home.
	glcampbell.com /homelessnessinamerica.htm (11048 words)

	The Voltaire Society of America (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The chief purpose of THE VOLTAIRE SOCIETY OF AMERICA INCORPORATED is to foster the spirit of the Enlightenment, tolerance and respect for the rights of the individual as exemplified by the life of Voltaire and as reflected in the beliefs of his contemporaries, the founders of the United States.
		THE VOLTAIRE SOCIETY OF AMERICA has established excellent relations with the local civic group Voltaire à Ferney, and expects to establish equally good ties with the Fondation Voltaire once it is formally organized.
		I met with the Mayor of Ferney-Voltaire, M. Georges Vianès, the Deputy Mayor for Culture and Communication, M. Alex Décotte, M. Lucien Choudin, a widely respected expert on Voltaire and the history of Ferney, who is president of the International Center for 18th-Century Studies, which relocated to Ferney last year from Oxford University.
	humanities.uchicago.edu /homes/VSA (1003 words)

	Cornell Library Digital Collections
		In addition to thirteen complete Bibles, there are five texts that comprise New Testaments only, two that contain just the Gospels, and William Tyndale's translation of the Pentateuch, Jonah, and New Testament.
		CHLA is a core electronic collection of agricultural texts published between the early nineteenth century and middle to late twentieth century.
		The Database of African American Poetry is a searchable full-text database that covers the works of 54 African-American poets writing in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and, through their writings, provides a unique portrait of early America.
	moa.cit.cornell.edu (1689 words)

	AMERICAN DIGEST Essays \| News \| Notes \| Quotes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		A savior is at hand, however, in the new hybrid vehicles popping up like dubious mushrooms in cities or in suburbs or wherever guilt and large clots of disposable income combine.
		EVERYONE WHO WAS IN NEW YORK ON on "The Day" will tell you their stories about "The Day." I could stun you with an eight figure number by running a Google on 9/11, but you can do that as well.
		Resolved: To safeguard the personal and economic wellbeing of the civilized world in the 21st century, it is essential for the United States to control Iraq for strategic and tactical military purposes alone.
	americandigest.org (11887 words)

	2006 Vehicle Model Guide, South Africa's Back Roads, 2006 BMW 3 Series, Monterey Moments, 2006 Subaru Tribeca, Canyon ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		With plenty of new developments, we've assembled a capsule guide to illustrate what's new and all of these innovations are cataloged here.
		For that reason, all care was taken to make sure the new 3 Series is as close to perfect as possible.
		Test-driving the back roads of Pennsylvania offered some of the finest two-lane highways to put a performance car through its paces and in my opinion, BMW should be proud of what they have accomplished.
	www.roadandtravel.com (1007 words)

	The Seattle Times: Nation & World: Fewer and fewer U.S. hunters to be found as urban areas grow
		This is hunting in the new century, where urbanization and busy lives get in the way.
		He lives in rural Smartsville, Calif., and a half-dozen hunting areas are within an hour's drive.
		There are more resident hunters in mostly rural Alaska than out-of-staters, but they pay less for licenses.
	seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/nationworld/2002192000_huntingfade28.html (1351 words)

	RePEc
		The 2000 Census and growth patterns in rural America
		The new power of regions : a policy focus for rural America
		New troubles at rural factories : new implications for rural development
	www.inomics.com /cgi/repec?handle=RePEc:fip:fedkms (302 words)

	Documenting America
		Created by a group of U.S. government photographers, the images show Americans in every part of the nation.
		In the early years, the project emphasized rural life and the negative impact of the Great Depression, farm mechanization, and the Dust Bowl.
		In later years, the photographers turned their attention to the mobilization effort for World War II.
	memory.loc.gov /ammem/fsowhome.html (238 words)

	Rural America - In Motion Magazine
		is a statewide organization of 5,500 farm and rural families with thirteen chapters around the state of Missouri.
		Missouri Rural Crisis Center and Campaign for Family Farms vow to fight Smithfield buyout of IBP
		As part of their National Campaign for Family Farms and the Environment, the Missouri Rural Crisis Center in conjunction with the Ozark Chapter of the Sierra Club drew up this proposal.
	www.inmotionmagazine.com /rural.html (1900 words)

	North Central Regional Educational Laboratory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The guide explains how student engagement is linked to achievement; offers practical examples and resources; and presents ideas for schools, districts, and states.
		The Learning Point Associates Adolescent Literacy Web site features new resources, tools, and information to help practitioners, administrators, policymakers, and other stakeholders define and implement effective research-based literacy programs aimed at helping students achieve success.
		The National Partnership for Teaching in At-Risk Schools and the National Commission on Teaching and America's Future (NCTAF) will host a webcast on September 22, 2005, 12–1 p.m., EDT, to discuss and gain insight on the critical issues of recruiting and retaining effective teachers for low-performing, high-poverty schools.
	www.ncrel.org (321 words)

	The Rural Sociological Society
		The Rural Sociologist September 2005 is available in the Members section
		Rural Sociology articles are available in the Members section
		Challenges for Rural America in the Twenty-first Century, RSS Rural Studies Book, received the annual Outstanding Academic Title Award of 2004 by CHOICE: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries.
	ruralsociology.org (148 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)