Agrarian Kentucky /

Agrarian Kentucky /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Clark, Thomas D.
Imprint:	Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, ©2015.
Description:	1 online resource (150 pages)
Language:	English
Subject:	Agriculture -- Kentucky -- History. Agriculture. Kentucky -- History -- 1792-1865. Kentucky -- History -- 1865- Kentucky. Electronic books. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11382878

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ISBN:	9780813158747 0813158745
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	Print version record.
Summary:	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.
Other form:	Print version: Clark, Thomas D. Agrarian Kentucky. Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, ©2015 9780813102375

Table of Contents:

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.