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100	1		_aFreese, Barbara (Barbara E.).
245	1	0	_aCoal _b: a human history _c/ Barbara Freese
260			_aCambridge, MA _b: Perseus Pub. _c, c2003.
300			_av, 308 p., [8] p. of plates _b: ill. _c; 20 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 249-291) and index.
520			_aAn 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.
650		0	_aCoal _v--History.
650		0	_aCoal _x--Social aspects.
650		0	_aCoal _x--Environmental aspects.
942			_cMO
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