Eastern Kentucky, Economic and Cultural, 1900-1962
Author : Judge Watson
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Page : 260 pages
File Size : 25,73 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Kentucky
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Author : Judge Watson
Publisher :
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 25,73 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Kentucky
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Author : Judge Watson
Publisher :
Page : 698 pages
File Size : 29,60 MB
Release : 1963
Category : Kentucky
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Author : Stuart Sprague
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Page : 214 pages
File Size : 27,33 MB
Release : 1986-01-01
Category : Kentucky
ISBN : 9780898654486
Author : William Clifford 1874-1962 Morse
Publisher : Wentworth Press
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 14,87 MB
Release : 2016-08-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781372314247
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Page : 20 pages
File Size : 35,62 MB
Release : 1963
Category : Kentucky
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Author : T.R.C. Hutton
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 38,69 MB
Release : 2013-09-20
Category : History
ISBN : 0813142431
This book uses the history of Breathitt County, Kentucky, to examine political violence in the United States and its interpretation in media and memory. Violence in Breathitt County, during and after the Civil War, usually reflected what was going on elsewhere in Kentucky and the American South. In turn, the types of violence recorded there corresponded with discernible political scenarios.
Author : John R. Burch, Jr.
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 14,22 MB
Release : 2015-03-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1476606943
Owsley County, Kentucky, is well known by journalists, academics, and local historians as a quintessential example of rural poverty in Appalachia. This study identifies several reasons behind Owsley County's ongoing struggle with poverty, including the county's lack of natural resources, a poor transportation system, and a centralized socio-political power structure controlled by the entrenched elite. The author asserts that Owsley County's economic hardships are far from unique, but rather are representative of a significant number of Appalachian counties and towns. Several tables and appendices provide useful demographic, legislative, and agricultural data.
Author : William Elsey Connelley
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Page : 177 pages
File Size : 23,93 MB
Release : 2003-01-01
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ISBN : 9780795056826
Author : George T. Blakey
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 40,11 MB
Release : 2014-07-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0813162130
The Great Depression and the New Deal touched the lives of almost every Kentuckian during the 1930s. Fifty years later the Commonwealth is still affected by the legacies of that era and the policies of the Roosevelt administration. George T. Blakey has written the first full study of this turbulent decade in Kentucky, and he offers a fresh perspective on the New Deal programs by viewing them from the local and state level rather than from Washington. Thousands of Kentuckians worked for New Deal programs such as the Civilian Conservation Corps and the Works Projects Administration; thousands more kept their homes through loans from the Home Owners Loan Corporation. Tobacco growers adopted new production techniques and rural farms received their first electricity because of the Agricultural Adjustment and Rural Electrification administrations. The New Deal stretched from the Harlan County coal mines to a TVA dam near Paducah, and it encompassed subjects as small as Social Security pension checks and as large as revived Bourbon distilleries. The impact of these phenomena on Kentucky was both beneficial and disruptive, temporary and enduring. Blakey analyzes the economic effects of this unprecedented and massive government spending to end the depression. He also discusses the political arena in which Governors Laffoon, Chandler, and Johnson had to wrestle with new federal rules. And he highlights social changes the New Deal brought to the Commonwealth: accelerated urbanization, enlightened land use, a lessening of state power and individualism, and a greater awareness of Kentucky history. Hard Times and New Deal weaves together private memories of older Kentuckians and public statements of contemporary politicians; it includes legislative debates and newspaper accounts, government statistics and personal reminiscences. The result is a balanced and fresh look at the patchwork of emergency and reform activities which many people loved, many others hated, but no one could ignore.
Author : Jack E. Weller
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 37,96 MB
Release : 2014-04-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 081314650X
The distinctive way of life of the Southern Appalachian people has often been criticized, romanticized or derided, but rarely has it been understood. Yesterday's People, the fruit of many years' labor in the mountains, reveals the fears, anxieties, and hopes that underlie the mountaineers' way of thinking and acting, and thereby shape their relationships in family and community. First published in 1965, this book has been an indispensable guide for all who seek to study, work or live within the Appalachian culture.