Mining and Society Series – serie
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Seeing Underground
Maps, Models, and Mining Engineering in America
Häftad, 2016
338 kr
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The digging of mineral wealth from the ground dates to prehistoric times, and Europeans pursued mining in the Americas from the earliest colonial days. Prior to the Civil War, very little mining went deep enough to require maps. However, the major finds of the mid-nineteenth century, such as the …
Weight of Gold
Inbunden, 2023
468 kr
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Mining in North America has long been criticized for its impact on the natural environment. Mica Jorgenson's The Weight of Gold explores the history of Ontario, Canada's rise to prominence in the gold mining industry, while detailing a series of environmental crises related to extraction …
Underground Leviathan
Corporate Sovereignty and Mining in the Americas
Inbunden, 2024
526 kr
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Underground Leviathan explores the emergence, dynamics, and lasting impacts of a mining firm, the United States Company. Through its exercise of sovereign power across the borders of North America in the early twentieth century, the transnational US Company shaped the business, environmental, …
Smoke and Tailings
An Environmental History of Butte and Anaconda, Montana, 1880-1930
Inbunden, 2025
814 kr
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Smoke and Tailings explores the environmental history of copper-smelting industry in Butte and Anaconda, Montana. Situating within the emerging "Envirotech" field, Smoke and Tailings blends environmental history and the history of technology. Author and historian Fredric L. Quivik integrates these …
Historical Archaeology in the Cortez Mining District
Under the Nevada Giant
Av Erich Obermayr, Robert W. McQueen
Häftad, 2025
396 kr
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The Cortez Hills Expansion Project archaeological excavations uncovered a wealth of information about the Cortez Mining District, from its beginning in 1863 to the government-mandated end to the mining of precious metals in the district during World War II. Obermayr and McQueen use archaeological …
Law of the Miner
The Arizona Experience
Av John C. Lacy
Inbunden, 2026
699 kr
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The first adventurers into the New World faced a fundamental legal challenge: how to secure rights to any mineral claims they discovered. Early conquistadors worked under charters that required them to return a portion of their findings to the Spanish crown, but those without such charters had no …
Commonwealth of Empire
A History of the Burma Corporation and the Bawdwin Mining Complex in British Colonial Burma
Inbunden, 2026
907 kr
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The Commonwealth of Empire explores the overlooked history of the Bawdwin mining complex in Burma's Northern Shan States, focusing on its development during the British colonial period. Drawing on global and imperial history, author David Baillargeon showcases how industrial-scale mining …
Mining the Borderlands
Industry, Capital, and the Emergence of Engineers in the Southwest Territories, 1855-1910
Inbunden, 2018
526 kr
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At the turn of the twentieth century, the US-Mexico border was home to some of the largest and most technologically advanced industrial copper mines. This despite being geographically, culturally, and financially far removed from traditional urban centers of power. Mining the Borderlands argues …
City That Ate Itself
Butte, Montana and Its Expanding Berkeley Pit
Häftad, 2019
338 kr
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Brian James Leech provides a social and environmental history of Butte, Montana's Berkeley Pit, an open-pit mine which operated from 1955 to 1982. Using oral history interviews and archival finds, The City That Ate Itself explores the lived experience of open-pit copper mining at Butte's infamous …
One Shot for Gold
Developing a Modern Mine in Northern California
Inbunden, 2021
526 kr
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In 1978, a geologist working for the Homestake Mining Company discovered gold in a remote corner of California's Napa County. This discovery led to the establishment of California's most productive gold mine in the twentieth century. Named the McLaughlin Mine, it produced about 3.4 million ounces …
