Mining North America : an environmental history since 1522

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Mining North America : an environmental history since 1522

edited by J. R. McNeill and George Vrtis

University of California Press, c2017

  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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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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List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Of Mines, Minerals, and North American Environmental History George Vrtis and J. R. McNeill PART ONE. CAPITALIST TRANSFORMATIONS 1. Exhausting the Sierra Madre: Mining Ecologies in Mexico over the Longue Duree Daviken Studnicki-Gizbert 2. Reconstructing the Environmental History of Colonial Mining: The Real del Catorce Mining District, Northeastern New Spain/Mexico, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries Antonio Avalos-Lozano and Miguel Aguilar-Robledo PART TWO. INDUSTRIAL CATALYSTS 3. A World of Mines and Mills: Precious-Metals Mining, Industrialization, and the Nature of the Colorado Front Range George Vrtis 4. Consequences of the Comstock: The Remaking of Working Environments on America's Largest Silver Strike, 1859-1880 Robert N. Chester III 5. Dust to Dust: The Colorado Coal Mine Explosion Crisis of 1910 Thomas G. Andrews 6. Copper and Longhorns: Material and Human Power in Montana's Smelter Smoke War, 1860-1910 Timothy James LeCain 7. Efficiency, Economics, and Environmentalism: Low-Grade Iron Ore Mining in the Lake Superior District, 1913-2010 Jeffrey T. Manuel PART THREE. HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE 8. Mining the Atom: Uranium in the Twentieth-Century American West Eric Mogren 9. A Comparative Case Study of Uranium Mine and Mill Tailings Regulation in Canada and the United States Robynne Mellor 10. The Giant Mine's Long Shadow: Arsenic Pollution and Native People in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories John Sandlos and Arn Keeling 11. Iron Mines, Toxicity, and Indigenous Communities in the Lake Superior Basin Nancy Langston 12. If the Rivers Ran South: Tar Sands and the State of the Canadian Nation Steven M. Hoffman 13. Quebec Asbestos: Triumph and Collapse, 1879-1983 Jessica van Horssen Afterword: Mining, Memory, and History Andrew C. Isenberg Contributors Index

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