Energy Citizenship: Coal and Democracy in the American Century by Kahle, Trish

Energy Citizenship: Coal and Democracy in the American Century

The history of the modern United States is the history of coal--and of coal miners. Trish Kahle...
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Author: Trish Kahle
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Energy Citizenship: Coal and Democracy in the American Century by Kahle, Trish

Energy Citizenship: Coal and Democracy in the American Century

$118.46

Energy Citizenship: Coal and Democracy in the American Century

$118.46
Author: Trish Kahle
Format: Paperback
Language: English

The history of the modern United States is the history of coal--and of coal miners. Trish Kahle reveals miners as forgers of a coal-fired social contract that was contested throughout the twentieth century as Americans sought to define the meaning of citizenship in an energy-intensive democracy.

Energy Citizenship traces the uncertain relationship between coal and democracy from the Progressive Era to the election of Ronald Reagan, examining how miners' democratic aspirations confronted the deadly record of the country's coal mines. Miners and their communities bore the burdens of energy production while reaping far fewer of the benefits of energy consumption. But they insisted that death in the mines, far from being inevitable, was a political choice. Kahle demonstrates that coal miners' struggles to democratize the workplace, secure civil and social rights, and obtain restitution for the human toll of progress reshaped U.S. laws, regulatory administrations, and political imaginaries. Energy policy in the twentieth century was about not only managing fuels but also negotiating the relationship between coal miners and the rest of the country, which depended on the electric power and steel produced with the coal they mined.

Placing coal miners at the center of a sweeping new history of the United States, this book unmasks the violence of energy systems and shows how energy governance cuts to the heart of persistent questions about democracy, justice, and equality.

Author: Trish Kahle
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 10/29/2024
Pages: 448
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.44lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780231215459

About the Author
Trish Kahle is a historian of energy, work, and politics at Georgetown University Qatar and co-leads the Energy Humanities Research Initiative at the Center for International and Regional Studies.

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