Agrarian Kentucky

Agrarian Kentucky
ISBN-10
0813193605
ISBN-13
9780813193601
Category
History
Pages
152
Language
English
Published
2021-12-14
Publisher
University Press of Kentucky
Author
Thomas D. Clark

Description

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 the people of Kentucky.

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