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050		4	_aHD9506.A2M5453 2017
100	1		_aMcNeill, John R.
245	1	0	_aMining North America : _bAn Environmental History Since 1522.
250			_a1st ed.
264		1	_aBerkeley : _bUniversity of California Press, _c2017.
264		4	_c©2017.
300			_a1 online resource (456 pages)
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
505	0		_aCover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Of Mines, Minerals, and North American Environmental History -- PART ONE. CAPITALIST TRANSFORMATIONS -- 1. Exhausting the Sierra Madre: Mining Ecologies in Mexico over the Longue Durée -- 2. Reconstructing the Environmental History of Colonial Mining: The Real del Catorce Mining District, Northeastern New Spain/Mexico, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries -- PART TWO. INDUSTRIAL CATALYSTS -- 3. A World of Mines and Mills: Precious-Metals Mining, Industrialization, and the Nature of the Colorado Front Range -- 4. Consequences of the Comstock: The Remaking of Working Environments on America's Largest Silver Strike, 1859-1880 -- 5. Dust to Dust: The Colorado Coal Mine Explosion Crisis of 1910 -- 6. Copper and Longhorns: Material and Human Power in Montana's Smelter Smoke War, 1860-1910 -- 7. Efficiency, Economics, and Environmentalism: Low-Grade Iron Ore Mining in the Lake Superior District, 1913-2010 -- PART THREE. HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE -- 8. Mining the Atom: Uranium in the Twentieth-Century American West -- 9. A Comparative Case Study of Uranium Mine and Mill Tailings Regulation in Canada and the United States -- 10. The Giant Mine's Long Shadow: Arsenic Pollution and Native People in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories -- 11. Iron Mines, Toxicity, and Indigenous Communities in the Lake Superior Basin -- 12. If the Rivers Ran South: Tar Sands and the State of the Canadian Nation -- 13. Quebec Asbestos: Triumph and Collapse, 1879-1983 -- Afterword: Mining, Memory, and History -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
520			_aOver 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.
588			_aDescription based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
590			_aElectronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
655		4	_aElectronic books.
700	1		_aVrtis, George.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _aMcNeill, John R. _tMining North America _dBerkeley : University of California Press,c2017 _z9780520279162
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