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Coal : a human history / Barbara Freese

By:

Freese, Barbara (Barbara E.)

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Cambridge, MA : Perseus Pub. , c2003.Description: v, 308 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 20 cmISBN:

9780738204000

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

553.2 FRE

LOC classification:

TN800 .F74 2003

Summary: An environmental attorney for the state of Minnesota for some 12 years, Freese acquired an interest in coal while working on a legal case involving global warming and the effect of emissions from coal-burning power plants that generate electricity. She traces the history of coal use in Britain, the U.S., and China, and examines the ongoing tension between its creative and destructive capacities, the role it has played in the urbanization, centralization, industrialization, and mechanization of the world, and the severe environmental threat it poses today.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Libro - Monografía	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C.	553.2 FRE (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Expurgado/No disponible		063428

Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-291) and index.

An environmental attorney for the state of Minnesota for some 12 years, Freese acquired an interest in coal while working on a legal case involving global warming and the effect of emissions from coal-burning power plants that generate electricity. She traces the history of coal use in Britain, the U.S., and China, and examines the ongoing tension between its creative and destructive capacities, the role it has played in the urbanization, centralization, industrialization, and mechanization of the world, and the severe environmental threat it poses today.

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