In the kingdom of coal : an American family and the rock that changed the world /
It 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 c...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Routledge,
2003.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | It 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. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xvii, 327 pages) : illustrations |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-318) and index. |
ISBN: | 0203488563 9780203488560 9786610076178 6610076170 9780415935227 0415935229 9781135951320 1135951322 9781135951276 1135951276 9781135951313 1135951314 1280076178 9781280076176 |