1.

Record Nr.

UNISA996417349803316

Autore

WHITE, Thomas <1593-1676.>

Titolo

Notes on Mr. F.D.'s Result of a dialogue concerning the middle state of souls : in a letter from Thomas White

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Paris, : [s.n.], 1660

Descrizione fisica

Testo elettronico (PDF) (77, [3] p.)

Disciplina

236.5

Soggetti

Purgatorio

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Risorsa elettronica

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Riproduzione dell'originale nella Cambridge University Library

Titolo corrente: Notes upon Mr. F.D.'s result.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910787481803321

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

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