When the Hills Are Gone tells the story of Wisconsin’s sand mining wars. Providing on-the-ground accounts from both the mining industry and the concerned citizens who fought back, Thomas W. Pearson blends social theory, ethnography, stirring journalism, and his own passionate point of view to offer an essential chapter of Wisconsin’s history and an important episode in the national environmental movement.
Keywords: Frac sand mining natural resources extraction fracking activism social movements community democracy
Print publication date: 2017 | Print ISBN-13: 9780816699919 |
Published to Minnesota Scholarship Online: September 2018 | DOI:10.5749/minnesota/9780816699919.001.0001 |