Mining America

Author : John R. McNeill
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520279174
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mining North America written by John R. McNeill and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2017-07-03 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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 life. As this process has unfolded, mining has also indelibly shaped the natural world and North Americans' relationship with it. Mountains have been honeycombed, rivers poisoned, and forests leveled. The effects of these environmental transformations have fallen unevenly across North American societies. Mining North America examines these developments. Drawing on the work of scholars from Mexico, the United States, and Canada, this book explores how mining has shaped North America over the last half millennium. It covers an array of minerals and geographies while seeking to draw mining into the core debates that animate North American environmental history generally. Taken together, the authors' contributions make a powerful case for the centrality of mining in forging North American environments and societies"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Paul J. White
Publisher : University Press of Florida
ISBN 13 : 0813065356
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Archaeology of American Mining written by Paul J. White and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2019-12-09 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mining History Association Clark C. Spence Award The mining industry in North America has a rich and conflicted history. It is associated with the opening of the frontier and the rise of the United States as an industrial power but also with social upheaval, the dispossession of indigenous lands, and extensive environmental impacts. Synthesizing fifty years of research on American mining sites that date from colonial times to the present, Paul White provides an ideal overview of the field for both students and professionals. The Archaeology of American Mining offers a multifaceted look at mining, incorporating findings from an array of subfields, including historical archaeology, industrial archaeology, and maritime archaeology. Case studies are taken from a wide range of contexts, from eastern coal mines to Alaskan gold fields, with special attention paid to the domestic and working lives of miners. Exploring what material artifacts can tell us about the lives of people who left few records, White demonstrates how archaeologists contribute to our understanding of the legacies left by miners and the mining industry. A volume in the series the American Experience in Archaeological Perspective, edited by Michael S. Nassaney

Author : John R. McNeill
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520966538
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mining North America written by John R. McNeill and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2017-07-03 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Duane A. Smith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mining America written by Duane A. Smith and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Kalowatie Deonandan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317414500
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mining in Latin America written by Kalowatie Deonandan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-07-15 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The last two decades have witnessed a dramatic expansion and intensification of mineral resource exploitation and development across the global south, especially in Latin America. This shift has brought mining more visibly into global public debates and spurred a great deal of controversy and conflict. This volume assembles new scholarship that provides critical perspectives on these issues. The book marshals original, empirical work from leading social scientists in a variety of disciplines to address a range of questions about the practices of mining companies on the ground, the impacts of mining on host communities, and the responses to mining from communities, civil society and states. The book further explores the global and international causes, consequences and innovations of this new era of mining activity in Latin America. Key issues include the role of Canadian mining companies and their investment in the region, and, to a lesser extent, the role of Chinese mining capital. Several chapters take a regional perspective, while others are based on empirical data from specific countries including Bolivia, Brazil, El Salvador, Guatemala and Peru.

Author : Ann Love
Publisher : Turtleback Books
ISBN 13 : 9780613871501
Total Pages : 31 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fishing written by Ann Love and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 2002-06-05 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Visits a fishing village in Maine and a salmon hatchery in Alaska to explain the different techniques and equipment used in commercial fishing, and discusses the dangers of overfishing, fish farming, and related topics.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Natural Resources. Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 62 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mining in America written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Natural Resources. Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Helmut Waszkis
Publisher : Woodhead Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1845699084
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mining in the Americas written by Helmut Waszkis and published by Woodhead Publishing. This book was released on 2014-03-14 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty years of work went into the writing of this: the first book to cover the history of mines and mining in North and South America. The text is enlivened by sketches of many miners the author got to know over the decades.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1044 pages
Book Rating : 4.8F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mining American written by and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 1044 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Kendall W. Brown
Publisher : UNM Press
ISBN 13 : 0826351077
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of Mining in Latin America written by Kendall W. Brown and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2012-03-16 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For twenty-five years, Kendall Brown studied Potosí, Spanish America's greatest silver producer and perhaps the world's most famous mining district. He read about the flood of silver that flowed from its Cerro Rico and learned of the toil of its miners. Potosí symbolized fabulous wealth and unbelievable suffering. New World bullion stimulated the formation of the first world economy but at the same time it had profound consequences for labor, as mine operators and refiners resorted to extreme forms of coercion to secure workers. In many cases the environment also suffered devastating harm. All of this occurred in the name of wealth for individual entrepreneurs, companies, and the ruling states. Yet the question remains of how much economic development mining managed to produce in Latin America and what were its social and ecological consequences. Brown's focus on the legendary mines at Potosí and comparison of its operations to those of other mines in Latin America is a well-written and accessible study that is the first to span the colonial era to the present.