1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910459628803321

Autore

Lewis Ronald L. <1940->

Titolo

Black coal miners in America : race, class, and community conflict, 1780-1980 / / Ronald L. Lewis

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lexington, Kentucky : , : The University Press of Kentucky, , 2009

©1987

ISBN

0-8131-8151-8

0-8131-5044-2

Edizione

[Paperback edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (264 p.)

Disciplina

331.6/396073

Soggetti

African American coal miners - History

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Bibliography: p. [227]-231.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Tables and Figures; Preface; Part I: Expropriation: Forced Labor; 1. Slavery; 2. Convict Labor; Part II: Exploitation: The South; 3. The Social Equality Wedge in Alabama, 1880-1908; 4. Resurgence of the UMWA in Alabama, 1920-1940; Part III: Exclusion: The North; 5. Job Control & Racial Conflict in the North & West, 1870-1903; 6. Race, Class, Community, & the UMWA in the North; Photographs; Part IV: Equality: Central Appalachia; 7. Judicious Mixture in Central Appalachia, 1880-1920; 8. The Fruits of Judicious Mixture, 1910-1932

Part V: Elimination: An Epilogue9. Demise of the Black Miner; Appendix: Employment of Blacks in the Bituminous Coal Industry, 1900-1980; Notes; Primary Sources; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y

Sommario/riassunto

From the early day of mining in colonial Virginia and Maryland up to the time of World War II, blacks were an important part of the labor force in the coal industry. Yet in this, as in other enterprises, their role has heretofore been largely ignored. Now Roland L. Lewis redresses the balance in this comprehensive history of black coal miners in America. The experience of blacks in the industry has varied widely over time and by region, and the approach of this study is therefore more



comparative than chronological. Its aim is to define the patterns of race relations that prevailed among the m

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910794909303321

Autore

LaRubia-Prado Francisco

Titolo

The horse in literature and film : uncovering a transcultural paradigm / / by Francisco LaRubia-Prado

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Maryland : , : Lexington Books, , 2017

©2017

ISBN

9781498534918

9781498534925

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (291 pages)

Collana

Ecocritical Theory and Practice

Disciplina

791.43/662

Soggetti

Horses in literature

Horses in motion pictures

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: The Horse Paradigm -- Everyday Life and Its Disruptions. Germany. Horses at the Frontier: Heinrich von Kleist's Michael Kohlhaas -- Russia. Horse and Nature: Leo Tolstoy's Kholstomer [Strider] --  Iceland. Saga Horses: Benedikt Erlingsson's Hross í oss [Of Horses and Men] -- War and Peace.  Spain. Horses as Gift: Cantar de Mio Cid [Poem of the Cid] -- Japan. Horses as the Real: Akira Kurosawa's Kagemusha [The Shadow Warrior] -- Children and Young Adult Literature: Peace Horse, War Horse, Novel by Michael Morpurgo; Play by Nick Stafford -- Authenticity and Inauthenticity. England. Alchemical Horse: D.H. Lawrence's St. Mawr -- USA. Horse as Home: The Misfits, Film by John Huston; Script by Arthur Miller -- India. Postcolonial Horse: Girish Karnad's Hayavadana [Head of a Horse] --    Conclusion: Horse Balance.



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910789689003321

Autore

Earnhart Dietrich

Titolo

Pollution Limits and Polluters' Efforts to Comply [[electronic resource] ] : The Role of Government Monitoring and Enforcement

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Palo Alto, : Stanford University Press, 2011

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (332 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

GlicksmanRobert L.

Disciplina

344.7304/6343

363.73

Soggetti

Chemical industry - Waste disposal - United States

Chemical industry -- Waste disposal -- United States

United States

United States. Federal Water Pollution Control Act

Water - Pollution - Government policy - United States

Water - Pollution - Law and legislation - United States

Water -- Pollution -- Law and legislation -- United States

Water -- Pollution --Government policy -- United States

Law - U.S

Law, Politics & Government

Public Health Legislation - U.S

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; List of Tables and Figures; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction; 2. Scope of Analysis: Sample of Regulated Facilities; 3. Summary of Research Questions and Review of Previous Studies; 4. Discharge Limits Imposed on Discharging Facilities; 5. Environmental Behavior: Facilities' Efforts to Comply with Discharge Limits; 6. Environmental Performance: Facilities' Discharges and Compliance with Discharge Limits; 7. Regulatory Efforts to Induce Compliance with Discharge Limits; 8. Effect of Government Interventions on Environmental Behavior

9. Effect of Government Interventions on Environmental Performance10. Summary, Conclusions, Policy Implications, and Future Research; Notes;



References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book integrates the fields of economics and law to empirically examine compliance with regulatory obligations under the Clean Water Act (CWA).  It examines four dimensions of federal water pollution control policy in the United States: limits imposed on industrial facilities' pollution discharges; facilities' efforts to comply with pollution limits, identified as ""environmental behavior""; facilities' success at controlling their discharges to comply with pollution limits, identified as ""environmental performance""; and regulators' efforts to induce compliance via inspections and enforc