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Bringing down the mountains: the impact of mountaintop removal surface coal mining on southern West Virginia communities, 1970-2004

Shirley Stewart Burns
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  • Contents

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  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgments (page XIII)
  • List of Abbreviations (page XVII)
  • Introduction Open for Business: The Shameful Legacy of Natural Resource Extraction (page 1)
  • Chapter 1 Making Molehills out of Mountains: Power Relationships and the Rise of Strip Mining in Southern West Virginia (page 9)
  • Chapter 2 Solidarity Forever? The UMWA and Southern West Virginia (page 19)
  • Chapter 3 To Dance with the Devil: The Social Impact of MTR (page 33)
  • Chapter 4 "You Scratch My Back and I'll Scratch Yours": The Political Economy of Coal (page 60)
  • Chapter 5 Showdown in Charleston: The Judicial System and MTR (page 99)
  • Chapter 6 "Show Me Where to Put My Fishing Pole": The Environmental Impact of MTR (page 118)
  • Epilogue Requiem for the Mountains? Central Appalachian Coalfields at a Crossroad (page 141)
  • Notes (page 144)
  • Bibliography (page 185)
  • Index (page 211)
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Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
TC 50.3 (Jul. 2009): 701-703 http://www.jstor.org/stable/40345755
Citable Link
Published: 2007
Publisher: West Virginia University Press
ISBN(s)
  • 9781933202174 (paper)
  • 9781933202990 (ebook)
Series
  • West Virginia and Appalachia
Subject
  • American: 1900-present
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