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Abbreviations xiii
Introduction.
Common People and Private Property 1
1 Making, Taking, and Stripping the Land 7
2 Our Country Would BeBetter Fit for Farming: Opposition to Surface Coal Mining in Ohio 25
3 Selfish Interests:
Opposition to Surface Coal Mining in Pennsylvania 43
4 We Feel We Have Been Forsaken: Opposition to Surface Coal Mining in Kentucky, 1954-1967 61
5 We Will Stop the Bulldozers: Opposition to Surface Coal Mining in Kentucky, 1967-1972 85
6 The Dilemma Is a Classic One: Opposition to Surface Coal Mining in West Virginia 107
7 Liberty in a Wasteland Is Meaningless: Strip Mining Opposition at the Federal Level, 1968-1972 127
8 Getting More and More Cynical: Decline of the Opposition, 1973-1977 155
9 Against the Little Man Like Me: Legalized Destruction in the SMCRA Era 181
Conclusion.
Having to Fight the Whole System 201
Notes 207
Selected Bibliography 235
Index 241.
Abbreviations xiii
Introduction.
Common People and Private Property 1
1 Making, Taking, and Stripping the Land 7
2 Our Country Would BeBetter Fit for Farming: Opposition to Surface Coal Mining in Ohio 25
3 Selfish Interests:
Opposition to Surface Coal Mining in Pennsylvania 43
4 We Feel We Have Been Forsaken: Opposition to Surface Coal Mining in Kentucky, 1954-1967 61
5 We Will Stop the Bulldozers: Opposition to Surface Coal Mining in Kentucky, 1967-1972 85
6 The Dilemma Is a Classic One: Opposition to Surface Coal Mining in West Virginia 107
7 Liberty in a Wasteland Is Meaningless: Strip Mining Opposition at the Federal Level, 1968-1972 127
8 Getting More and More Cynical: Decline of the Opposition, 1973-1977 155
9 Against the Little Man Like Me: Legalized Destruction in the SMCRA Era 181
Conclusion.
Having to Fight the Whole System 201
Notes 207
Selected Bibliography 235
Index 241.