A Darkness at Dawn Appalachian Kentucky and the Future.

By:

Caudill, Harry M, 1922-1990 [Author]

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780813150277

Genre/Form:

Electronic Books.

LOC classification:

HC107 .D375 1976

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Subject: Outspoken Appalachian writer Harry M. Caudill analyzes the exploitation and decline of the eastern Kentucky mountain lands, which have rendered ""no people in the nation...more forlorn than the Appalachian highlanders in our time."" Frontier attitudes, a strong attachment to the land, and isolation have produced in Appalachia a backwoods culture which made its people susceptible to an outside exploitation of their resources that has perpetrated on them a passive society largely dependant on relief.But the times, says Mr. Caudill, are changing. A growing world population and global industrializ.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	URL	Status	Date due	Barcode
Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD)	G. Allen Fleece Library ONLINE	Non-fiction	HC107.4 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Link to resource	Available		ocn900344285

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Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; 1 The Beginning of It All; 2 How Seeds of Trouble Bore Fruit; 3 The Tyranny of Coal; 4 The Truth That Liberates; 5 On the Tides of Change; 6 No Excuse for Failure; A Suggested Bibliography

Outspoken Appalachian writer Harry M. Caudill analyzes the exploitation and decline of the eastern Kentucky mountain lands, which have rendered ""no people in the nation...more forlorn than the Appalachian highlanders in our time."" Frontier attitudes, a strong attachment to the land, and isolation have produced in Appalachia a backwoods culture which made its people susceptible to an outside exploitation of their resources that has perpetrated on them a passive society largely dependant on relief.But the times, says Mr. Caudill, are changing. A growing world population and global industrializ.

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