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    To Save the Land and People: A History of Opposition to Surface Coal Mining in Appalachia
    To Save the Land and People: A History of Opposition to Surface Coal Mining in Appalachia
    To Save the Land and People: A History of Opposition to Surface Coal Mining in Appalachia
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    To Save the Land and People: A History of Opposition to Surface Coal Mining in Appalachia

    By Chad Montrie

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    Surface coal mining has had a dramatic impact on the Appalachian economy and ecology since World War II, exacerbating the region's chronic unemployment and destroying much of its natural environment. Here, Chad Montrie examines the twentieth-century movement to outlaw surface mining in Appalachia, tracing popular opposition to the industry from its inception through the growth of a militant movement that engaged in acts of civil disobedience and industrial sabotage. Both comprehensive and comparative, To Save the Land and People chronicles the story of surface mining opposition in the whole region, from Pennsylvania to Alabama.

    Though many accounts of environmental activism focus on middle-class suburbanites and emphasize national events, the campaign to abolish strip mining was primarily a movement of farmers and working people, originating at the local and state levels. Its history underscores the significant role of common people and grassroots efforts in the American environmental movement. This book also contributes to a long-running debate about American values by revealing how veneration for small, private properties has shaped the political consciousness of strip mining opponents.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherThe University of North Carolina Press
    Release dateNov 20, 2003
    ISBN9780807862636
    To Save the Land and People: A History of Opposition to Surface Coal Mining in Appalachia
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    Chad Montrie

    Chad Montrie is assistant professor of history at the University of Massachusetts Lowell and author of To Save the Land and People: A History of Opposition to Surface Coal Mining in Appalachia (from the University of North Carolina Press).

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