02834nam 2200637 450 991046042650332120200520144314.00-8131-9052-50-8131-5874-5(CKB)3710000000334196(EBL)1915369(SSID)ssj0001401349(PQKBManifestationID)12539991(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001401349(PQKBWorkID)11349694(PQKB)10221747(MiAaPQ)EBC1915369(OCoLC)899944539(MdBmJHUP)muse43985(Au-PeEL)EBL1915369(CaPaEBR)ebr11009806(CaONFJC)MIL690935(OCoLC)900344767(EXLCZ)99371000000033419620150204h19771977 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrAgrarian Kentucky /Thomas D. Clark ; illustrations by William B. CrouchLexington, Kentucky :The University Press of Kentucky,1977.©19771 online resource (150 p.)The Kentucky Bicentennial bookshelf Agrarian Kentucky Description based upon print version of record.1-322-59653-0 0-8131-0237-5 "Bibliographical note": p. 131-[136]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 NoteFor 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 andAgricultureKentuckyHistoryKentuckyHistory1792-1865KentuckyHistory1865-Electronic books.AgricultureHistory.976.9Clark Thomas Dionysius1903-2005,139462Crouch William B.MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910460426503321Agrarian Kentucky2452672UNINA