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The Road to Poverty: The Making of Wealth and Hardship in Appalachia.

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| September 15, 1999 | Hutcherson, Norman B. | (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Billings, Dwight B. & Kathleen M. Blee. The Road to Poverty: The Making of Wealth and Hardship in Appalachia. Cambridge Univ. Nov. 1999. c.520p. illus. index. LC 98-51561. ISBN 0-521-65229-4. $59.95; pap. ISBN 0-521-65546-3. $21.95. ECON

This well-written, convincing historical examination of persistently poor rural communities continues the ground-breaking work done by James Brown in his Beech Creek studies. Using a longitudinal case study, Billings and Blee (Women of the Klan) examine the historic sociology of Clay County, KY, its pattern of economic crisis and migration, …

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