Mining North America

An Environmental History since 1522

Häftad, Engelska, 2017

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Over the past five hundred years, North Americans have increasingly relied on mining to produce much of their material and cultural life. From cell phones and computers to cars, roads, pipes, pans, and even wall tile, mineral-intensive products have become central to North American societies. As this process has unfolded, mining has also indelibly shaped the natural world and the human societies within it. Mountains have been honeycombed, rivers poisoned, forests leveled, and the consequences of these environmental transformations have fallen unevenly across North America. Drawing on the work of scholars from Mexico, the United States, and Canada, Mining North America examines these developments. It covers an array of minerals and geographies while bringing mining into the core debates that animate North American environmental history. Taken all together, the essays in this book make a powerful case for the centrality of mining in forging North American environments and societies.

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Utgivningsdatum2017-07-03
Mått152 x 229 x 25 mm
Vikt680 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor456
FörlagUniversity of California Press
ISBN9780520279179

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List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Of Mines, Minerals, and North American Environmental HistoryGeorge Vrtis and J. R. McNeillPART ONE. CAPITALIST TRANSFORMATIONS1. Exhausting the Sierra Madre: Mining Ecologies in Mexico over the Longue DuréeDaviken Studnicki-Gizbert2. Reconstructing the Environmental History of Colonial Mining: The Real del Catorce Mining District, Northeastern New Spain/Mexico, Eighteenth and Nineteenth CenturiesAntonio Avalos-Lozano and Miguel Aguilar-RobledoPART TWO. INDUSTRIAL CATALYSTS3. A World of Mines and Mills: Precious-Metals Mining, Industrialization, and the Nature of the Colorado Front RangeGeorge Vrtis4. Consequences of the Comstock: The Remaking of Working Environments on America’s Largest Silver Strike, 1859–1880Robert N. Chester III5. Dust to Dust: The Colorado Coal Mine Explosion Crisis of 1910Thomas G. Andrews6. Copper and Longhorns: Material and Human Power in Montana’s Smelter Smoke War, 1860–1910Timothy James LeCain7. Efficiency, Economics, and Environmentalism: Low-Grade Iron Ore Mining in the Lake Superior District, 1913–2010Jeffrey T. ManuelPART THREE. HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE8. Mining the Atom: Uranium in the Twentieth-Century American WestEric Mogren9. A Comparative Case Study of Uranium Mine and Mill Tailings Regulation in Canada and the United StatesRobynne Mellor10. The Giant Mine’s Long Shadow: Arsenic Pollution and Native People in Yellowknife, Northwest TerritoriesJohn Sandlos and Arn Keeling11. Iron Mines, Toxicity, and Indigenous Communities in the Lake Superior BasinNancy Langston12. If the Rivers Ran South: Tar Sands and the State of the Canadian NationSteven M. Hoffman13. Quebec Asbestos: Triumph and Collapse, 1879–1983Jessica van HorssenAfterword: Mining, Memory, and HistoryAndrew C. IsenbergContributorsIndex