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Killing for Coal

America’s Deadliest Labor War

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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

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  • List of Illustrations
  • Introduction: Civil War, Red and Bloody
  • 1. A Dream of Coal-Fired Benevolence
  • 2. The Reek of the New Industrialism
  • 3. Riding the Wave to Survive an Earth Transformed
  • 4. Dying with Their Boots On
  • 5. Out of the Depths and on to the March
  • 6. The Quest for Containment
  • 7. Shouting the Battle Cry of Union
  • Epilogue
  • Abbreviations Used in the Notes
  • Notes
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index

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