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Autore |
Thomas Erin Ann |
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Titolo |
Coal in our veins : a personal journey / / Erin Ann Thomas |
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Logan, Utah, : Utah State University Press, 2012 |
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ISBN |
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1-60732-707-4 |
1-4571-8441-9 |
9786613688774 |
0-87421-865-9 |
1-280-77838-5 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (287 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Coal miners - Utah |
Coal miners - Wales |
Welsh Americans - Utah |
Coal mines and mining - Utah - History |
Coal mines and mining - Wales - History |
Coal - Environmental aspects - United States |
Coal - Social aspects - United States |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Introduction -- A Miner's Lamp -- Cymyru -- A Welsh Coal Miner -- The First Loco to Run on Rails -- Two Miners' Sons -- The Paths of Blind Horses -- Carbon County -- The Rattle of Dead Men's Skin -- Zeph and Maud -- The Castle Gate -- The Striking Years -- Get the Men Out -- Leaving Carbon -- Ghost Towns -- Bridge -- A Historical Gap -- West Virginia -- The Little White Chapel -- One Who Escaped -- A Memorial -- Mountains Made Low -- String-Town Appalachia -- Squatter on a Gold Mine -- Washington, D.C. -- The Energy Future of America -- A Drop in the Bucket -- Yes to Electric Reliability -- Coda -- In the Bowels of the Earth -- The Last Deep Coal Mine in Wales -- The Winds of Change -- Afterword. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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In Coal in Our Veins, Erin Thomas employs historical research, autobiography, and journalism to intertwine the history of coal, her |
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