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Autore |
Scott Rebecca R |
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Titolo |
Removing mountains [[electronic resource] ] : extracting nature and identity in the Appalachian coalfields / / Rebecca R. Scott |
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Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2010 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (289 p.) |
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Collana |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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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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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 and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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An ethnography of coal country in southern West Virginia. |
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