Reckoning at Eagle Creek

The Secret Legacy of Coal in the Heartland

Jeff Biggers (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

320 Seiten

2014
Southern Illinois University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8093-3386-8 (ISBN)

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Set in the ruins of the author's family's strip-mined homestead in the Shawnee National Forest, this book focuses on the largely overlooked human and environmental costs of coal mining in the southern Illinois region and in the nation, beginning with the policies of Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson and continuing up to the present-day debates over clean energy.

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 exposé of a secret legacy of shame and resiliency.

Jeff Biggers has worked as a writer, educator, radio correspondent and community organizer across the US, Europe, Mexico and India. Winner of an American Book Award, a Foreword Magazine Book of the Year Award and a Lowell Thomas Award for Travel Journalism, his work has appeared in scores of magazines, newspapers and national public radio programs. He blogs frequently for the Huffington Post and Grist. His website is www.jeffbiggers.com. Biggers' new book, Reckoning at Eagle Creek: The Secret Legacy of Coal in the Heartland, was first published in January 2010.

Zusatzinfo	11 illustrations
Verlagsort	Carbondale
Sprache	englisch
Maße	149 x 226 mm
Gewicht	456 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Technikgeschichte
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
	Technik ► Bergbau
ISBN-10	0-8093-3386-4 / 0809333864
ISBN-13	978-0-8093-3386-8 / 9780809333868
Zustand	Neuware