Energy citizenship : the coal-fired social contract in the American century /
"Coal Citizenship places coal miners at the center of a sweeping history of the modern United States. Drawing on extensive archival research, it argues that miners' labors, activism, and deaths have been foundational to how the United States makes energy policy and how Americans understand...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
[2024]
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| Summary: | "Coal Citizenship places coal miners at the center of a sweeping history of the modern United States. Drawing on extensive archival research, it argues that miners' labors, activism, and deaths have been foundational to how the United States makes energy policy and how Americans understand their political community. Starting in the 1880s, when coal became the dominant energy source in the United States, and extending through Ronald Reagan's inauguration in 1981, the book charts how, as miners extracted coal, they also turned themselves into coal citizens who retained a special hold on U.S. politics, social movements, and the struggle over what is owed to the workers who supplied coal to an energy-hungry nation. Coal Citizenship thus reveals how American democracy has been marked not only by its fossil fuel dependence, but also by the way both miners and a wider group of Americans understood the rights and obligations of citizenship as flowing from the coal which bound them together"-- |
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| Physical Description: | ix, 431 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780231215442 0231215444 9780231215459 0231215452 |