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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Montrie, Chad.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Strip mining--Environmental aspects--Appalachian Region.

Strip mining.

Strip mining--Appalachian Region--Public opinion.

Public opinion--Appalachian Region.

Public opinion.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (264 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This text charts the people's movement to ban strip mining in Appalachia, tracing popular opposition to the industry from its inception through the growth of a militant movement engaging in acts of sabotage. It highlights the role of farmers and working people in this movement.

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [207]-240) and index.

ISBN:

9798890878120

9780807862636

0807862630

OCLC:

476237156