In the Kingdom of Coal : an American Family and the Rock That Changed the World.

It was a time of poverty and enterprise, when poor men slaved in the mines, rich men became barons and America grew from a backward agricultural colony to the industrial force of the modern world. The driving power behind this transformation was coal, the black gold that even today illuminates our c...

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Main Author: Rottenberg, Dan
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Routledge, 2003.
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