Author: Jim LloydPublisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 208
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The Impact of Institutions in Appalachia
Author: Jim LloydThe Impact of Institutions in Appalachia
Author: Anne G. CampbellPublisher:
ISBN: 9781469636894
Category : Social sciences
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
This volume of the Proceedings of the 8th Annual Appalachian Studies Conference, held in 1986 in Berea, Kentucky, offers a sampling of papers presented at the conference. Paper topics include religion; government and technology; capitalism and coal; regional photographers; sports and play in Southern Appalachia; education; cultural and diversity issues; and history and politics.
Appalachian Legacy
Author: James Patrick ZiliakPublisher: Brookings Institution Press
ISBN: 0815722141
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
In 1964 President Lyndon Johnson traveled to Kentucky's Martin County to declare war on poverty. The following year he signed the Appalachian Regional Development Act,creating a state-federal partnership to improve the region's economic prospects through better job opportunities, improved human capital, and enhanced transportation. As the focal point of domestic antipoverty efforts, Appalachia took on special symbolic as well as economic importance. Nearly half a century later, what are the results? Appalachian Legacy provides the answers. Led by James P. Ziliak, prominent economists and demographers map out the region's current status. They explore important questions, including how has Appalachia fared since the signing of ARDA in 1965? How does it now compare to the nation as a whole in key categories such as education, employment, and health? Was ARDA an effective place-based policy for ameliorating hardship in a troubled region, or is Appalachia stillmired in a poverty trap? And what lessons can we draw from the Appalachian experience? In addition to providing the reports of important research to help analysts, policymakers, scholars, and regional experts discern what works in fighting poverty, Appalachian Legacy is an important contribution to the economic history of the eastern United States.
Change in Rural Appalachia
Author: John D. PhotiadisPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 1512805866
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Appalachia is a region in trouble. Even in the more remote coves and hollows, major social and economic changes are disturbing the traditional ways of life. The conditions which have made it a pocket of poverty cannot be easily eradicated; and the rapid changes of recent years have added further severe problems of adjustment which deeply affect the family, church life, education, the folk subculture, and, above all, the individual. Outmigration, psychological dislocation, and cultural alienation are the result. The nine contributing scholars have lived and worked in Appalachia; they know the people and their customs, their problems and their needs. They are thoroughly familiar with the programs now in operation, and are well qualified to evaluate their success or failure in terms of those needs. Furthermore, their findings can be applied to other regions and nations, wherever an isolated group has been abruptly incorporated into the mainstream of society while many of its peculiar problems remain unsolved. Rural Appalachia may in fact be considered a microcosm of the underdeveloped nations of the world; the issues raised here far transcend the importance of a regional study. The essays are grouped according to four general areas of research. The first part deals with the individual in his society; the second with six social institutions—economy, government, family, religion, education, and power structure; the third with methods and objectives of change; and the fourth with the aims of change agencies, particularly the Extension Service of the future. As the tangle of problems, strains, and tensions is explored, the focus remains steadily upon immediate and longterm effects on the individual. The book is dedicated to "the professional field workers in programs of directed change . . . struggling on the one hand with ideas, theories, and conceptual innovations, and on the other hand with the immediate realities of the local situations."
Appalachia Looks at Its Future
Author: James Paxton MarshallPublisher:
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Category : Appalachian Region, Southern
Languages : en
Pages : 152
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An Analysis of Appalachian Institutions of Higher Education
Author: Appalachian Regional CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education, Higher
Languages : en
Pages : 222
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Appalachia
Author: The Political Economy of Appalachia
Author: Monroe NewmanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 234
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Adapting Social Institutions in Appalachia
Author: Thomas R. FordPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Appalachian Region
Languages : en
Pages : 8
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Institutions Versus Geography
Author: Eric V. CliftonPublisher:
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Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 30
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