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The Southern Appalachian region a survey.
The Southern Appalachian Region is the largest American ""problem area""--An area whose participation in the economic growth of the nation has not been sufficient to relieve the chronic poverty of its people. The existence of the problem was recognized a generation ago, but in th...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lexington,
University of Kentucky Press
[1962]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | The Southern Appalachian Region is the largest American ""problem area""--An area whose participation in the economic growth of the nation has not been sufficient to relieve the chronic poverty of its people. The existence of the problem was recognized a generation ago, but in the past decade the resistance of such areas to economic advance has acquired a more urgent significance in American thought. In 1958, a group of scholars undertook to make a new survey of the Southern Appalachian Region. Aided by grants from the Ford Foundation ultimately amounting to 250,000, they set out to analyze t |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xv, 308 pages) maps, diagrams, tables |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references. |