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UNINA9910460426503321 |
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Autore |
Clark Thomas Dionysius <1903-2005, > |
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Agrarian Kentucky / / Thomas D. Clark ; illustrations by William B. Crouch |
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Lexington, Kentucky : , : The University Press of Kentucky, , 1977 |
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©1977 |
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ISBN |
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0-8131-9052-5 |
0-8131-5874-5 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (150 p.) |
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Collana |
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The Kentucky Bicentennial bookshelf Agrarian Kentucky |
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Soggetti |
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Agriculture - Kentucky - History |
Electronic books. |
Kentucky History 1792-1865 |
Kentucky History 1865- |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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"Bibliographical note": p. 131-[136] |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; 1 The Land, Its Promiseand Its Pattern; 2 Aristocrats and Country Commoners; 3 Unto This Land and Its People; 4 ""Bringing in the Sheaves""; 5 ""Pit of a Frenzied Commonwealth""; 6 ""They Will Arise Like Fireflies at Summer Sunset""; 7 The Central Theme in Myth and Reality; Bibliographical Note |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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For subsistence farmers in eastern Kentucky, wealthy horse owners in the central Bluegrass, and tobacco growers in Western Kentucky, land was, and continues to be, one of the commonwealth's greatest sources of economic growth. It is also a source of nostalgia for a people devoted to tradition, a characteristic that has significantly influenced Kentucky's culture, sometimes to the detriment of education and development. As timely now as when it was first published, Thomas D. Clark's classic history of agrarianism prepares readers for a new era that promises to bring rapid change to the land and |
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