Agrarian Kentucky

by Thomas D. Clark

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813102375
• ISBN13: 9780813102375
• Release Date: December 1977
• Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher