Killing for Coal

America’s Deadliest Labor War

Thomas G. Andrews

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$26.00 • £22.95 • €23.95

ISBN 9780674046917

Publication Date: 09/01/2010

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408 pages

6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches

30 halftones, 4 maps

World

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Thomas G. Andrews is Professor of History at the University of Colorado Boulder.

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Awards & Accolades

2009 Bancroft Prize, Columbia University

2009 George Perkins Marsh Prize, American Society for Environmental History

2009 Vincent P. DeSantis Prize, Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era

2009 Colorado Book Award in History, Colorado Center for the Book

2009 Caroline Bancroft History Prize, Denver Public Library

Honorable Mention, 2009 Norris and Carol Hundley Award, Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association

2007–2008 Clark Spence Award, Mining History Association

Finalist, 2008 David J. Weber Prize for the Best Non-Fiction Book on Southwestern America, William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies at Southern Methodist University

A 2008 Noteworthy Book in Industrial Relations and Labor Economics, Industrial Relations Section of Princeton University

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