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Article: Bringing Down the Mountains: The Impact of Mountaintop Removal Surface Coal Mining on Southern West Virginia Communities, 1970-2004.(Book review)
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- The Journal of Southern History
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- May 1, 2009
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Bringing Down the Mountains: The Impact of Mountaintop Removal Surface Coal Mining on Southern West Virginia Communities, 1970-2004. By Shirley Stewart Burns. West Virginia and Appalachia, Vol. 5. (Morgantown: West Virginia University Press, 2007. Pp. [xviii], 214. Paper, $27.50, ISBN 978-1-933202-17-4.)
Environmental historians have increasingly come to reject a more or less indiscriminate condemnation of capitalism's destructive effects on nature, embracing instead a nuanced view of the complex relationships between the economic development of human communities and the larger ecological communities in which such development takes place. Shirley Stewart Burns, ...