| Book Review | Environmental History, 9.1

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Book Review

Coal: A Human History. By Barbara Freese. Cambridge, Mass.: Perseus Publishing, 2003. 320 pp. Bibliography, index. Cloth $25.00.

You might expect a book so ambitiously titled Coal: A Human History, to be a huge, sprawling tome. The list of subtopics that could be included under the heading "coal history" is a lengthy one. Barbara Freese gets away with a shorter, much tidier book (it is 320 pages but physically small) by not being comprehensive. Instead, she selectively emphasizes the dual themes of coal as a foundation for industrialization and, by inference, a factor in nearly all that process entailed, as well as coal as a pollutant of air. Freese further divides her book into sections on Britain to about the mid-nineteenth century, the United States to the late twentieth century, and China during the second half of the twentieth century.

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