Mining North America : an environmental history since 1522

Mining North America : an environmental history since 1522 / edited by J.R. McNeill and George Vrtis.

"Over the past five hundred years, North Americans have increasingly turned to mining to produce many of their basic social and cultural objects. From cell phones to cars and roadways, metal pots to wall tile and even talcum powder, minerals products have become central to modern North American...

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Other Authors: McNeill, John Robert (Editor), Vrtis, George (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2017]
Subjects:
Mineral industries > Environmental aspects > North America > History.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Industries > General.
HISTORY > United States > General.
Mineral industries > Environmental aspects
Umweltschaden
Umweltverträglichkeit
Bergbauindustrie
Umweltveränderung
Umweltgefährdung
North America
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : of mines, minerals, and North American environmental history / George Vrtis and J.R. McNeill
  • Exhausting the Sierra Madre : mining ecologies in Mexico over the longue durée / Daviken Studnicki-Gizbert
  • Reconstructing the environmental history of colonial mining : the Real del Catorce Mining District, northeastern New Spain/Mexico, 18th to 19th centuries / Antionio Avalos-Lozano and Miguel Aguilar-Robledo
  • A world of mines and mills : precious-metals mining, industrialization, and the nature of the Colorado Front Range / George Vrtis
  • Consequences of the Comstock : the remaking of working environments on America's largest silver strike, 1859-1880 / Robert N. Chester III
  • Dust to dust : the Colorado coal-mine explosion crisis of 1910 / Thomas G. Andrews
  • Copper and longhorns : material and human power in Montana's smelter smoke war, 1860-1910 / Timothy James LeCain
  • Efficiency, economics, and environmentalism : low-grade iron ore mining in the Lake Superior District, 1913-2010 / Jeffrey T. Manuel
  • Mining the atom : uranium in the twentieth-century American West / Eric Mogren
  • A comparative case study of uranium mine and mill tailings regulation in Canada and the United States / Robynne Mellor
  • The Giant Mine's long shadow : arsenic pollution and native people in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories / John Sandlos and Arn Keeling
  • Iron mines, toxicity, and Indigenous communities in the Lake Superior basin / Nancy Langston
  • If the rivers ran south : tar sands and the state of the Canadian nation / Steven Hoffman
  • Quebec Asbestos : triumph and collapse, 1879-1983 / Jessica van Horssen
  • Afterword : mining, memory, and history / Andrew C. Isenberg.

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