Book ID: CBB132188838

Mining North America: An Environmental History since 1522 (2017)

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McNeill, John R. (Editor)
George Vrtis (Editor)


University of California Press


Publication Date: 2017
Physical Details: 456 pages
Language: English

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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Authors & Contributors
Paolo de Vingo
Bailly-Maître, Marie-Christine
Farinelli, Roberto
Maurizio Rossi
Anna Gattiglia
Piergiovanni Damiani
Journals
Der Anschnitt: Zeitschrift für Kunst und Kultur im Bergbau
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Insegna del Giglio
Franco Angeli
Il Formichiere
University of New Mexico Press
Polistampa
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Concepts
Mines and mining
Technology
Environmental history
Landscape; landscapes
Metallurgy
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Medieval
Early modern
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19th century
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