The gamekeeper at home : sketches of natural history and rural life /

Mode of access: Internet.

Illinois Rural Life Panel survey : spring 2000 report : addressing issues about the quality of life, availability of skilled labor, housing, access to computer technology, impact of the Internet, and womens' health /

"First printing: March 2001"--T.p. verso.

Rural life in New England. A domestic romance.

Wright I, 2259.

[Tales in verse, and miscellaneous poems descriptive of rural life and manners /

Title page missing; title from note pasted inside front cover and pre-1956 NUC.

The rural life of England.

Lettered: First American edition

The rural life of England.

Last 32 pages advertising matter.

Improvement of rural life; the role of the community school throughout the world.

Mode of access: Internet.

Proceedings of the Rural Life Conference.

Mode of access: Internet.

The American farmer; devoted to agriculture, horticulture and rural life.

4th ser., v. 1-4 includes the Proceedings of the 1st-11th annual meetings (1848-58) of the Maryland State Agricultural Society.

Walter Seyton: a story of rural life in Virginia.

Religious story, for children.

Rural life conference held at the University of Virginia summer school

Cover title

A national agricultural policy for all the people of the United States. Prepared for the Columbia University Seminar on Rural Life.

Mode of access: Internet.

A free farmer in a free state: a study of rural life and industry and agricultural politics in an agricultural country,

Plates, except first, printed on both sides.

The colonization of rural Britain; a complete scheme for the regeneration of British rural life,

Paged continuously.

Crime in rural Australia

As an academic who has spent a quarter of a century living, lecturing and researching in a rural community, I am often impressed by the discrepancies between the reality of rural life and its image in the public consciousness. At least two aspects of this are the most striking. First, there is often - especially, but not exclusively in English-speaking societies - the idea that rural communities represent the "real" or "true" aspects of a society's culture. For example, judging by the representations of rural Australia in the media, rural life is where we find the true Australian, the laconic, taciturn, but decent everyday man and woman, the "battlers", who are not corrupted by urban life. Such an attribution of genuineness to rurality is especially interesting given that the vast majority of contemporary Australians live in cities and that Australia is one of the most urbanised countries in the world. Second, and following from the first point, is the idea that rural areas remain somewhat behind the times, that somehow they are not quite part of the contemporary world. This is a mixed image as it combines both the negative idea of backwardness with the more positive one of a society that has not lost the virtues of stability and civility that we often feel is missing in the city. Both of these ideas combine in the popular image of rural communities as safe places in an increasingly dangerous world. In the popular mind it seems that there is an idea that whatever rural communities may lack in conveniences and sophistication, they remain places where you might walk down the street safely, leave your doors unlocked at night and raise your children confident that they will not be exposed to drugs, gangs and violence. Unfortunately, all of these ideas are fantasies. There is no reason to believe that the residents of rural communities are anymore the truer representations of Australian culture than the average suburbanite.