Contesting Rurality
Subtitle: Politics In The British Countryside (Perspectives on Rural Policy and Planning)
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
Published: April 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 209
ISBN-13: 9780754630258
Subjects: Sociology - Rural; Science/Mathematics; Public Policy - Social Policy; Science; Sociology; Sociology, Rural; POLITICS & GOVERNMENT; Rural communities; United Kingdom, Great Britain; Public Policy - Regional Planning; Earth Sciences - Geography; Great Britain; Rural conditions
First sentence: In April 1991 a ripple of excitement ran through the small Somerset village of Hinton St George as political machinations and alleged dirty tricks in the elections to the parish council briefly brought notoriety for the community in the national press.