To save the land and people a history of opposition to surface coal mining in Appalachia /
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University of North Carolina Press,
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Table of Contents:
- 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.