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RECORD NUMBER: 7 OF 11| Main Title | Removing mountains : extracting nature and identity in the Appalachian coalfields / | ||||||||||||
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| Author | Scott, Rebecca R. | ||||||||||||
| Publisher | University of Minnesota Press, | ||||||||||||
| Year Published | 2010 | ||||||||||||
| OCLC Number | 617508557 | ||||||||||||
| ISBN | 9780816665990 (hc : alk. paper); 0816665990 (hc : alk. paper); 9780816666003 (pb : alk. paper); 0816666008 (pb : alk. paper) | ||||||||||||
| Subjects | Coal mines and mining--Social aspects--Appalachian Region ; Mountaintop removal mining--Social aspects--Appalachian Region ; Environmentalism--Appalachian Region ; Appalachians (People) ; Appalachian Region--Social conditions ; Appalachian Region--Economic conditions | ||||||||||||
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| Collation | xvi, 271 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. | ||||||||||||
| Notes | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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| Contents Notes | Introduction: the logic of extraction -- Hillbillies and coal miners: representations of a national sacrifice zone -- Men moving mountains: coal mining masculinities and mountaintop removal -- The gendered politics of pro-mountaintop removal discourse -- ATVs in action: transgression, property rights, and tourism on the Hatfield-McCoy trail -- Coal heritage/coal history: Appalachia, America, and mountaintop removal -- Traces of history: "white" people, black coal -- Conclusion: coal facts. |