Coal in our Veins : A Personal Journey /

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Coal in Our Veins employs historical research, autobiography, and journalism to intertwine the history of coal, her ancestors' lives mining coal, and the societal and environmental impacts of the United States' dependency on coal as an energy source. In the first part of the book, she visi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Thomas, Erin Ann
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Logan, Utah : Utah State University Press, 2012.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Thomas, Erin Ann.
Thomas, Erin Ann > Family.
Thomas, Erin Ann > Travel.
Welsh Americans.
Travel.
Families.
Coal mines and mining.
Coal miners.
Coal > Environmental aspects.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Mining.
Charbon > Aspect social > États-Unis.
Americains d'origine galloise > Utah > Biographies.
Mineurs de charbon > Pays de Galles > Biographies.
Mineurs de charbon > Utah > Biographies.
Coal > Social aspects > United States.
Coal > Environmental aspects > United States.
Coal mines and mining > Wales > History.
Coal mines and mining > Utah > History.
Welsh Americans > Utah > Biography.
Coal miners > Wales > Biography.
Coal miners > Utah > Biography.
Wales.
Utah.
United States.
Biographies.
History.
collective biographies.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:Coal in Our Veins employs historical research, autobiography, and journalism to intertwine the history of coal, her ancestors' lives mining coal, and the societal and environmental impacts of the United States' dependency on coal as an energy source. In the first part of the book, she visits Wales, native ground of British coal mining and of her emigrant ancestors. The Thomases' move to the coal region of Utah, where they witnessed the Winter Quarters and Castle Gate mine explosions two of the worst mining disasters in American history and the history of coal development in Utah are explored in the second part.
Physical Description:1 online resource (286 pages): illustrations
ISBN:9780874218657
Access:Open Access

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