| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 245 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-240) and index. |
| Summary |
This text charts the people's movement to ban strip mining in Appalachia, tracing popular opposition to the industry from its inception through the growth of a militant movement engaging in acts of sabotage. It highlights the role of farmers and working people in this movement. |
| Contents |
Introduction: Common people and private property -- Making, taking, and stripping the land -- Our country would be better fit for farming: opposition to surface coal mining in Ohio -- Selfish interests: opposition to surface coal mining in Pennsylvania -- We feel we have been forsaken: opposition to surface coal mining in Kentucky, 1954-1967 -- We will stop the bulldozers: opposition to surface coal mining in Kentucky, 1967-1972 -- The dilemma is a classic one: opposition to surface coal mining in West Virginia -- Liberty in a wasteland is meaningless: strip mining opposition at the federal level, 1968-1972 -- Getting more and more cynical: decline of the opposition, 1973-1977 -- Against the little man like me: legalized destruction in the SMCRA era -- Conclusion: Having to fight the whole system. |
| Access |
Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Strip mining -- Environmental aspects -- Appalachian Region.
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Strip mining -- Environmental aspects. |
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Appalachian Region. |
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Strip mining -- Appalachian Region -- Public opinion.
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Strip mining. |
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Public opinion. |
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Public opinion -- Appalachian Region.
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Montrie, Chad. To save the land and people. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2003 0807827657 0807854352 (DLC) 2002010880 (OCoLC)50269740 |
| ISBN |
0807862630 (electronic book) |
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9780807862636 (electronic book) |
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0807827657 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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9780807827659 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0807854352 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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9780807854358 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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