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To save the land and people...
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monografia Rebiun19462024 https://catalogo.rebiun.org/rebiun/record/Rebiun19462024 020712s2003 ncua sb 001 0 eng 0807827657 0807854352 CaPaEBR CaPaEBR UMA.RE Montrie, Chad To save the land and people Recurso electrónico] a history of opposition to surface coal mining in Appalachia Chad Montrie Chapel Hill University of North Carolina Press c2003 Chapel Hill Chapel Hill University of North Carolina Press xv, 245 p. ill xv, 245 p. Ebook Central Includes bibliographical references (p. [207]-240) and index Machine generated contents note: Acknowledgments xi --Abbreviations xiii --Introduction. -- Common People and Private Property 1 --1 Making, Taking, and Stripping the Land 7 --2 Our Country Would BeBetter Fit for Farming: Opposition to Surface Coal Mining in Ohio 25 --3 Selfish Interests: -- Opposition to Surface Coal Mining in Pennsylvania 43 --4 We Feel We Have Been Forsaken: Opposition to Surface Coal Mining in Kentucky, 1954-1967 61 --5 We Will Stop the Bulldozers: Opposition to Surface Coal Mining in Kentucky, 1967-1972 85 -- 6 The Dilemma Is a Classic One: Opposition to Surface Coal Mining in West Virginia 107 --7 Liberty in a Wasteland Is Meaningless: Strip Mining Opposition at the Federal Level, 1968-1972 127 --8 Getting More and More Cynical: Decline of the Opposition, 1973-1977 155 --9 Against the Little Man Like Me: Legalized Destruction in the SMCRA Era 181 --Conclusion. -- Having to Fight the Whole System 201 --Notes 207 -- Selected Bibliography 235 -- Index 241 Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. ebrary 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries Modo de acceso: World Wide Web Ebook Central Strip mining- Environmental aspects- Appalachian Region Strip mining- Appalachian Region- Public opinion Public opinion- Appalachian Region Ebook Central (Servicio en línea)