| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 89.1

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Wealth, Waste, and Alienation: Growth and Decline in the Connellsville Coke Industry. By Kenneth Warren. (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2001. xxii, 297 pp. $30.00, ISBN 0-8229-4132-5.)

Kenneth Warren, emeritus fellow of Jesus College at Oxford University, has written the preeminent study of the American coke industry. His Wealth, Waste, and Alienation studies the Connellsville, Pennsylvania, district, once the dominant one in the United States. Two of the author's other books touch upon the subject; Warren is well versed. 1

Located in the rolling countryside of southwestern Pennsylvania, the Connellsville district by 1913 had produced about 47 percent of America's coke and nearly 18 percent of the global output. Its period of major production was the three-quarters of a century after the Civil War. For those unfamiliar with coke, it is the residue produced when great heat is applied to coal kept out of direct contact with air. It is fuel used in producing pig iron, iron, and steel, and it is used as a reducing agent in processing copper, lead, and zinc. 2

Coke was essential in the postwar rise of the United States to a world industrial power. The proximity of Pittsburgh meant low transportation costs and quick availability. . . .

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