a history of opposition to surface coal mining in Appalachia Montrie, Chad. creator ebrary, Inc text bibliography Electronic books. ncu Chapel Hill University of North Carolina Press c2003 2003 monographic eng

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xv, 245 p. : ill. 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. Chad Montrie. Includes bibliographical references (p. [207]-240) and index. Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. n-usa-- Strip mining Environmental aspects Appalachian Region Strip mining Appalachian Region Public opinion Public opinion Appalachian Region TD195.S75 M56 2003eb 338.2/724/0974 http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10202620 http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10202620 CaPaEBR 020712 ebr10202620