Mining North America An Environmental History Since 1522 John R Mcneill George Vrtis by John R. Mcneill & George Vrtis 9780520279162, 0520279166 instant download after payment.

Cover -- 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
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