TY - BOOK ID - 30920927 TI - Who owns Appalachia? PY - 2015 SN - 0813161932 0813150965 1322601496 9780813161938 9781322601496 9780813150963 PB - Lexington The University Press of Kentucky DB - UniCat KW - Land tenure KW - Appalachian Region KW - Economic conditions. KW - Social conditions. KW - Agrarian tenure KW - Feudal tenure KW - Freehold KW - Land ownership KW - Land question KW - Landownership KW - Tenure of land KW - Appalachia KW - Appalachian Mountains Region KW - Local finance KW - Real property tax KW - Mineral industries KW - Land use, Rural KW - Real property KW - Land, Nationalization of KW - Landowners KW - Serfdom KW - Taxation KW - Rural land use KW - Land use KW - Agriculture KW - Extractive industries KW - Extractive industry KW - Metal industries KW - Mines and mining KW - Mining KW - Mining industry KW - Mining industry and finance KW - Industries KW - Council tax KW - Land tax KW - Real estate tax KW - Taxation of real property KW - Property tax KW - Homestead exemptions KW - County finance KW - Finance, Local KW - Township finance KW - Finance, Public KW - Grants-in-aid UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:30920927 AB - Long viewed as a problem in other countries, the ownership of land and resources is becoming an issue of mounting concern in the United States. Nowhere has it surfaced more dramatically than in the southern Appalachians where the exploitation of timber and mineral resources has been recently aggravated by the ravages of strip-mining and flash floods. This landmark study of the mountain region documents for the first time the full scale and extent of the ownership and control of the region's land and resources and shows in a compelling, yet non-polemical fashion the relationship between this co ER -