Description:
Originally published in 1982, this book provides an important set of basic materials for students of rural development. Key papers have been chosen and a general introduction and passages that link the papers provided, alerting the student to rival theoretical interpretations and to regional parallels and contrasts.
Review Quotes:
'What makes the volume more than useful or handy...is the insight John Harriss brings to the introductions which preface each major section and go considerably beyond simply summarising the arguments of the individual papers...It is difficult to be critical of the Harriss volume. Many of the articles...represent classic thinking on rural development...' Susanne D. Mueller, The Journal of Development Studies, Volume 20, Issue 3.