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Ducktown Smoke : The Fight over One of the South's Greatest Environmental Disasters /

In 'Ducktown Smoke', Duncan Maysilles offers a summary of the environmental devastation caused by sulfur dioxide pollution in a Southern Appalachian mountain basin in the late 19th century. A byproduct of the smelting practices of two copper mining giants operating in Tennessee, toxic smok...

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Autor principal: Maysilles, Duncan
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2011.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Introduction : the view from the mountain
  • The setting, the Cherokees, and the first era of Ducktown mining, 1843-1878
  • The revival of Ducktown mining and the first smoke suits, 1890-1903
  • The farmers and the copper companies wage battle in the Tennessee courts
  • Georgia enters the fray
  • The Ducktown desert and Georgia's first smoke suit
  • Will Shippen, forestry, and Georgia's second smoke suit, 1905-1907
  • Attorney general Hart, the National Farmers Union, and the search for a remedy, 1907-1910
  • The smoke injunction and the great war, 1914-1918
  • Power dams, whitewater rafting, and the reclamation of the Ducktown desert, 1916-2010
  • Epilogue : the view from the mountain.