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

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores:	McNeill, John Robert (Editor), Vrtis, George (Editor)
Formato:	eBook
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2017]
Materias:	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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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.

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

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