1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910459585203321

Titolo

Who owns Appalachia? : landownership and its impact / / The Appalachian Land Ownership Task Force ; with an introduction by Charles C. Geisler

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lexington, Kentucky : , : The University Press of Kentucky, , 1983

©1983

ISBN

0-8131-6193-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (277 p.)

Disciplina

306.097691

Soggetti

Land tenure - Appalachian Region

Electronic books.

Appalachian Region Economic conditions

Appalachian Region Social conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographies and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Tables; Introduction; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1. Landownership-A National Issue, an Appalachian Issue; 2. Who Owns the Land and Minerals?; 3. Who Bears the Tax Burden?; 4. Economic Development for Whom?; 5. Appalachia's Disappearing Farmland; 6. Homeless in the Mountains; 7. Ownership, Energy, and the Land; 8. A Call to Action; Appendix 1. Fifty Top Owners and Other Data; Appendix 2. Methodology of the Land Study; Appendix 3. Annotated Bibliography; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z

Sommario/riassunto

Long viewed as a problem in other countries, the ownership of land and resources is becoming an issue of mounting concern in the United States. Nowhere has it surfaced more dramatically than in the southern Appalachians where the exploitation of timber and mineral resources has been recently aggravated by the ravages of strip-mining and flash floods. This landmark study of the mountain region documents for the first time the full scale and extent of the ownership and control of the region's land and resources and shows in a compelling, yet non-polemical fashion the relationship between this co



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910969904603321

Autore

Winters Anne

Titolo

The displaced of capital / / Anne Winters

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, c2004

ISBN

9786612585104

9781282585102

128258510X

9780226902395

0226902390

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (74 p.)

Collana

Phoenix poets

Disciplina

811/.54

Soggetti

Social problems

Homelessness

Poverty

New York (N.Y.) Poetry

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- I. THE MILL-RACE -- II . THE FIRST VERSE

Sommario/riassunto

Winner of the 2005 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize. The long-awaited follow-up to The Key to the City-a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1986-Anne Winters's The Displaced of Capital emanates a quiet and authoritative passion for social justice, embodying the voice of a subtle, sophisticated conscience. The "displaced" in the book's title refers to the poor, the homeless, and the disenfranchised who populate New York, the city that serves at once as gritty backdrop, city of dreams, and urban nightmare. Winters also addresses the culturally, ethnically, and emotionally excluded and, in these politically sensitive poems, writes without sentimentality of a cityscape of tenements and immigrants, offering her poetry as a testament to the lives of have-nots. In the central poem, Winters witnesses the relationship between two women of disparate social classes whose friendship represents the poet's political convictions.



With poems both powerful and musical, The Displaced of Capital marks Anne Winters's triumphant return and assures her standing as an essential New York poet.