To save the land and people : a history of opposition to surface coal mining in Appalachia / / Chad Montrie.

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Year of Publication:2003
Language:English
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Physical Description:xv, 245 p. :; ill.
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245 1 0 |a To save the land and people  |h [electronic resource] :  |b a history of opposition to surface coal mining in Appalachia /  |c Chad Montrie. 
260 |a Chapel Hill :  |b University of North Carolina Press,  |c c2003. 
300 |a xv, 245 p. :  |b ill. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references (p. [207]-240) and index. 
505 8 |a 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. 
533 |a Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. 
650 0 |a Strip mining  |x Environmental aspects  |z Appalachian Region. 
650 0 |a Strip mining  |z Appalachian Region  |x Public opinion. 
650 0 |a Public opinion  |z Appalachian Region. 
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