Reckoning at Eagle Creek

2010-01-26 Nature

Author : Jeff Biggers
Release : 2010-01-26
Genre : Nature
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 183/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Reckoning at Eagle Creek written by Jeff Biggers. This book was released on 2010-01-26. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cultural historian Jeff Biggers takes us to the dark amphitheatre ruins of his family's nearly 200-year-old hillside homestead that has been strip-mined on the edge of the first federally recognized Wilderness Site in southern Illinois. In doing so, he not only comes to grips with his own denied backwoods heritage, but also chronicles a dark and missing chapter in the American experience: the historical nightmare of coal outside of Appalachia, serving as an expos' of a secret legacy of shame and resiliency.

Reckoning at Eagle Creek

2010-11 History

Author : Jeff Biggers
Release : 2010-11
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 841/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Reckoning at Eagle Creek written by Jeff Biggers. This book was released on 2010-11. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cultural historian Jeff Biggers takes us to the dark amphitheatre ruins of his familys nearly 200 - year - old hillside homestead that has been strip - mined on the edge of the first federally recognized Wilderness Site in southern Illinois. In doing so' he not only comes to grips with his own denied backwoods heritage' but also chronicles a dark and missing chapter in the American experience; the historical nightmare of coal outside of Appalachia' serving as an expos of a secret legacy of shame and resiliency.

Tropic of Chaos

2011-06-28 Nature

Author : Christian Parenti
Release : 2011-06-28
Genre : Nature
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Book Rating : 620/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Tropic of Chaos written by Christian Parenti. This book was released on 2011-06-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Africa to Asia and Latin America, the era of climate wars has begun. Extreme weather is breeding banditry, humanitarian crisis, and state failure. In Tropic of Chaos, investigative journalist Christian Parenti travels along the front lines of this gathering catastrophe--the belt of economically and politically battered postcolonial nations and war zones girding the planet's midlatitudes. Here he finds failed states amid climatic disasters. But he also reveals the unsettling presence of Western military forces and explains how they see an opportunity in the crisis to prepare for open-ended global counterinsurgency. Parenti argues that this incipient "climate fascism" -- a political hardening of wealthy states-- is bound to fail. The struggling states of the developing world cannot be allowed to collapse, as they will take other nations down as well. Instead, we must work to meet the challenge of climate-driven violence with a very different set of sustainable economic and development policies.

The United States of Appalachia

2007-03-10 History

Author : Jeff Biggers
Release : 2007-03-10
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 94X/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book The United States of Appalachia written by Jeff Biggers. This book was released on 2007-03-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few places in the United States confound and fascinate Americans like Appalachia, yet no other area has been so markedly mischaracterized by the mass media. Stereotypes of hillbillies and rednecks repeatedly appear in representations of the region, but few, if any, of its many heroes, visionaries, or innovators are ever referenced. Make no mistake, they are legion: from Anne Royall, America's first female muckraker, to Sequoyah, a Cherokee mountaineer who invented the first syllabary in modern times, and international divas Nina Simone and Bessie Smith, as well as writers Cormac McCarthy, Edward Abbey, and Nobel Laureate Pearl S. Buck, Appalachia has contributed mightily to American culture — and politics. Not only did eastern Tennessee boast the country's first antislavery newspaper, Appalachians also established the first District of Washington as a bold counterpoint to British rule. With humor, intelligence, and clarity, Jeff Biggers reminds us how Appalachians have defined and shaped the United States we know today.

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