Mineral Industry in Early America
Author | : Hillary W. St. Clair |
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Total Pages | : 68 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Mineral industries |
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Author | : Hillary W. St. Clair |
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Total Pages | : 68 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Mineral industries |
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Author | : John R. McNeill |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 456 |
Release | : 2017-07-03 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0520279174 |
"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 | : Hillary W. Saint Clair |
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Total Pages | : 62 |
Release | : 1977 |
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Author | : Hillary W. St. Clair |
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Total Pages | : 62 |
Release | : 1977 |
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Author | : Kendall W. Brown |
Publisher | : UNM Press |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2012-03-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0826351077 |
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.
Author | : Margaret Hindle Hazen |
Publisher | : Van Nostrand Reinhold Company |
Total Pages | : 488 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
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Author | : Hillary W. St-Clair |
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Total Pages | : 62 |
Release | : 1977 |
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Author | : Helmut Waszkis |
Publisher | : Woodhead Publishing |
Total Pages | : 297 |
Release | : 2014-03-14 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1845699084 |
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.
Author | : Ryan Gale |
Publisher | : ABDO |
Total Pages | : 51 |
Release | : 2023-08-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1098277112 |
Mining plays an important role in US history. Miners have fought for better pay and safer working conditions. The History of Mining describes how mining has changed in what is now the United States from thousands of years ago to the present day, including the rise of new technologies and creation of laws to protect miners. Easy-to-read text, vivid images, and helpful back matter give readers a clear look at this subject. Features include a table of contents, infographics, a glossary, additional resources, and an index. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Core Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.
Author | : Charles K. Hyde |
Publisher | : University of Arizona Press |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2016-03-04 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0816532796 |
This comprehensive history of copper mining tells the full story of the industry that produces one of America's most important metals. The first inclusive account of U.S. copper in one volume, Copper for America relates the discovery and development of America's major copper-producing areas—the eastern United States, Tennessee, Michigan, Montana, Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, Utah, and Alaska—from colonial times to the present. Starting with the predominance of New England and the Middle Atlantic states in the early nineteenth century, Copper for America traces the industry's migration to Michigan in mid-century and to Montana, Arizona, and other western states in the late nineteenth century. The book also examines the U.S. copper industry's decline in the twentieth century, studying the effects of strong competition from foreign copper industries and unforeseen changes in the national and global copper markets. An extensively documented chronicle of the rise and fall of individual mines, companies, and regions, Copper for America will prove an essential resource for economic and business historians, historians of technology and mining, and western historians.