03570oam 2200685I 450 991045083130332120200520144314.01-135-95132-21-280-07617-80-203-48856-310.4324/9780203488560 (CKB)1000000000250833(EBL)182780(OCoLC)437055908(SSID)ssj0000299469(PQKBManifestationID)11278332(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000299469(PQKBWorkID)10241438(PQKB)11177951(MiAaPQ)EBC182780(Au-PeEL)EBL182780(CaPaEBR)ebr10098897(CaONFJC)MIL7617(OCoLC)56089347(EXLCZ)99100000000025083320180706d2003 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrIn the kingdom of coal an American family and the rock that changed the world /Dan RottenbergNew York :Routledge,2003.1 online resource (354 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-203-60314-1 0-415-93522-9 Includes bibliographical references (p. 315-318) and index.In the Kingdom of Coal An American Family and the Rock That Changed the World; Copyright; Contents; Introduction The Message in the Necho Allen Hotel; Leisenring and Givens Family Trees; Chronology; Prologue "There Will Come a Time"; Part I: Mauch Chunk; Chapter 1 "A Rock That Burns"; Chapter 2 A Passage from the Mines; Chapter 3 Holy Trinity; Chapter 4 Boy Wonder of the Anthracite; Chapter 5 Souls in Darkness; Chapter 6 A Road Not Taken; Part II: Connellsville; Chapter 7 The Ambitions of Henry Clay Frick; Chapter 8 At War in the Coke Fields; Part III: Big Stone Gap; Chapter 9 Starting OverChapter 10 The Rise of John L.LewisChapter 11 Utopia Goes Union; Chapter 12 Be Careful What You Wish For; Chapter 13 Prelude to Murder; Part IV: To The Powder River; Chapter 14 The Age of Uncertainty; Chapter 15 Riding the Roller Coaster; Chapter 16 Nowhere to Hide; Epilogue A Hyacinth Blooms at Imboden; Principal Characters; Notes; Bibliography; Acknowledgments; IndexIt was a time of poverty and enterprise, when poor men slaved in the mines, rich men became barons and America grew from a backward agricultural colony to the industrial force of the modern world. The driving power behind this transformation was coal, the black gold that even today illuminates our cities and runs our personal computers.In The Kingdom of Coal tells the extraordinary story of coal through the eyes of two families--one the magnates, one the miners--over three generations while locked together, for better or worse, in a common quest.At the reigns of power are the BusinessmenUnited StatesBiographyCoal minersUnited StatesBiographyCoal tradeUnited StatesHistoryCoal mines and miningUnited StatesHistoryElectronic books.BusinessmenCoal minersCoal tradeHistory.Coal mines and miningHistory.338.7/622334/092273BRottenberg Dan.997099MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910450831303321In the kingdom of coal2286588UNINA