Table of Contents: “…Bakersfield Sound: Hag gets Hard --…”
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Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- "Things will break loose from the hands of the wise men" : Darfur, scarcity, and conflict -- "We're the far country" : the Gulf Coast, warming waters, and the flight from paradise -- "A spectacular bit of growth as times get hard" : Europe, migration, and political backlash -- "At a new frontier" : Brazil, unsettled ecosystems, and disease -- "Beautiful country" : the West Coast, hotter summers, and the grape harvest -- "Everything is late in Churchill" : the Arctic, melting ice, and the new land grab -- "An elemental kind of existential threat" : South Asia, disappearing glaciers, and regional catastrophe -- Epilogue.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Days of hope, years of despair : photo essay 1 : Georgetown at the turn of the century -- All dressed up with no place to go : photo essay 2 : the photography of Lewis Clark Coggshall -- The dowager Silver Queen : photo essay 3 : the years leading up to the First World War -- Mining what the mountain has to offer : photo essay 4 : mining in and around Georgetown and Silver Plume -- Long evening into night : photo essay 5 : trains, trams, and tourists -- 1917 : photo essay 6 : Georgetown 1917-1929 -- They roared and they sputtered : photo essay 7 : the 1930s and 1940s -- Times are getting' hard boys, money's getting' scarce : photo essay 8 : the office of war information documents the town -- Georgetown goes to war : photo essay 9 : life returns to normal after the war -- Into a new era : photo essay 10 : modern times and new adventures -- A turn toward growth : photo essay 11 : tourists return to the valley -- Epilogue : the once and future Silver Queen.…”
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