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Author | : John Demont |
Publisher | : Anchor Canada |
Total Pages | : 354 |
Release | : 2010-04-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0385665059 |
A major new work of history, told through the stories of a teeming cast of characters. The history of coal is the story of the last two centuries of the industrialized world. Coal has powered that world, and controlled the destinies of millions. And nowhere has that influence run more deeply than in Nova Scotia, where the industry’s rise and decline has transformed society twice. Coal Black Heart is a global history that centres unapologetically on one province, and the generations of people whose lives there have been shaped by this dominating industry. There are the miners. There are the moonshiners and brooding social reformers and charismatic preachers who gave the mining towns their particular feel and flair. And there are the profiteers whose greed led to disaster. This is history as great storytelling - enthralling, involving, deeply moving, and it is a very personal narrative. A brilliant reporter, journalist, and author who has spent most of his career examining Nova Scotia’s weave of land, people, and history - and who grew up listening to its stories - John DeMont was born to write this book.
Author | : Fred Carlton Stewart |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 64 |
Release | : 1917 |
Genre | : Agriculture |
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Author | : Robert Olmstead |
Publisher | : Algonquin Books |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2008-05-20 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1565126343 |
When Robey Childs's mother has a premonition about her husband, a soldier fighting in the Civil War, she does the unthinkable: she sends her only child to find his father on the battlefield and bring him home. At fourteen, wearing the coat his mother sewed to ensure his safety—blue on one side, gray on the other— Robey thinks he's off on a great adventure. But not far from home, his horse falters and he realizes the enormity of his task. It takes the gift of a powerful and noble coal black horse to show him how to undertake the most important journey of his life: with boldness, bravery, and self-posession. Coal Black Horse joins the pantheon of great war novels—All Quiet on the Western Front, The Red Badge of Courage, The Naked and the Dead.
Author | : Barbara Ellen Smith |
Publisher | : Haymarket Books |
Total Pages | : 323 |
Release | : 2020-10-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1642593931 |
Employment and production in the Appalachian coal industry have plummeted over recent decades. But the lethal black lung disease, once thought to be near-eliminated, affects miners at rates never before recorded. Digging Our Own Graves sets this epidemic in the context of the brutal assault, begun in the 1980s and continued since, on the United Mine Workers of America and the collective power of rank-and-file coal miners in the heart of the Appalachian coalfields. This destruction of militancy and working class power reveals the unacknowledged social and political roots of a health crisis that is still barely acknowledged by the state and coal industry. Barbara Ellen Smith’s essential study, now with an updated introduction and conclusion, charts the struggles of miners and their families from the birth of the Black Lung Movement in 1968 to the present-day importance of demands for environmental justice through proposals like the Green New Deal. Through extensive interviews with participants and her own experiences as an activist, the author provides a vivid portrait of communities struggling for survival against the corporate extraction of labor, mineral wealth, and the very breath of those it sends to dig their own graves.
Author | : George Herbert Coons |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 72 |
Release | : 1918 |
Genre | : Farm produce |
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Author | : Chris McGinley |
Publisher | : Shotgun Honey |
Total Pages | : 180 |
Release | : 2019-12 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781643960586 |
Stories full of action, twists and turns, and characters on both sides of the law who navigate the treacherous, often violent terrain that spares so few. COAL BLACK by Chris McGinley is a collection of gritty crime stories-cleverly drawn tales with sometimes savage surprise endings.
Author | : Fred Carlton Stewart |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 950 |
Release | : 1917 |
Genre | : Aphididae |
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Author | : |
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Total Pages | : 1058 |
Release | : 1916 |
Genre | : Agriculture |
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Author | : New York State Agricultural Experiment Station |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 820 |
Release | : 1918 |
Genre | : Agriculture |
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Author | : New York (State). Dept. of Agriculture and Markets |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 822 |
Release | : 1918 |
Genre | : Agriculture |
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