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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...
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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[Lexington, Kentucky] :
University of Kentucky Press,
1962.
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| Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Résumé: | 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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| Description matérielle: | 1 online resource (328 pages): illustrations, maps, tables |
| ISBN: | 9780813165172 |