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Mining in World History
Author | : Martin Lynch |
Publsiher | : Reaktion Books |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2004-08-02 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 9781780230054 |
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This book deals with the history of mining and smelting from the Renaissance to the present. Martin Lynch opens with the invention, sometime before 1453, of a revolutionary technique for separating silver from copper. It was this invention which brought back to life the rich copper-silver mines of central Europe, in the process making brass cannon and silver coin available to the ambitious Habsburg emperors, thereby underpinning their quest for European domination. Lynch also discusses the Industrial Revolution and the far-reaching changes to mining and smelting brought about by the steam engine; the era of the gold rushes; the massive mineral developments and technological leaps forward which took place in the USA and South Africa at the end of the 19th century; and, finally, the spread of mass metal-production techniques amid the violent struggles of the 20th century. In an engaging, concise and fast-paced text, he presents the interplay of personalities, politics and technology that have shaped the metallurgical industries over the last 500 years.
Mining an International History
Author | : John Temple |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 152 |
Release | : 1972 |
Genre | : Mineral industries |
ISBN | : UCAL:B4254534 |
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Mining North America
Author | : John R. McNeill,George Vrtis |
Publsiher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 456 |
Release | : 2017-07-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780520279179 |
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"Over the past five hundred years, North Americans have increasingly turned to mining to produce many of their basic social and cultural objects. From cell phones to cars and roadways, metal pots to wall tile and even talcum powder, minerals products have become central to modern North American life. As this process has unfolded, mining has also indelibly shaped the natural world and North Americans' relationship with it. Mountains have been honeycombed, rivers poisoned, and forests leveled. The effects of these environmental transformations have fallen unevenly across North American societies. Mining North America examines these developments. Drawing on the work of scholars from Mexico, the United States, and Canada, this book explores how mining has shaped North America over the last half millennium. It covers an array of minerals and geographies while seeking to draw mining into the core debates that animate North American environmental history generally. Taken together, the authors' contributions make a powerful case for the centrality of mining in forging North American environments and societies"--Provided by publisher.
A History of Mining in Latin America
Author | : Kendall W. Brown |
Publsiher | : UNM Press |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2012-03-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780826351074 |
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For twenty-five years, Kendall Brown studied Potosí, Spanish America's greatest silver producer and perhaps the world's most famous mining district. He read about the flood of silver that flowed from its Cerro Rico and learned of the toil of its miners. Potosí symbolized fabulous wealth and unbelievable suffering. New World bullion stimulated the formation of the first world economy but at the same time it had profound consequences for labor, as mine operators and refiners resorted to extreme forms of coercion to secure workers. In many cases the environment also suffered devastating harm. All of this occurred in the name of wealth for individual entrepreneurs, companies, and the ruling states. Yet the question remains of how much economic development mining managed to produce in Latin America and what were its social and ecological consequences. Brown's focus on the legendary mines at Potosí and comparison of its operations to those of other mines in Latin America is a well-written and accessible study that is the first to span the colonial era to the present.
A History of American Mining
Author | : Thomas Arthur Rickard |
Publsiher | : New York McGraw-Hill 1932. |
Total Pages | : 438 |
Release | : 1932 |
Genre | : Mines and mineral resources |
ISBN | : UOM:39015024317508 |
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Making Sense of Mining History
Author | : Stefan Berger,Peter Alexander |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 614 |
Release | : 2019-09-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780429516955 |
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This book draws together international contributors to analyse a wide range of aspects of mining history across the globe including mining archaeology, technologies of mining, migration and mining, the everyday life of the miner, the state and mining, industrial relations in mining, gender and mining, environment and mining, mining accidents, the visual history of mining, and mining heritage. The result is a counter balance to more common national and regional case study perspectives.
A Global History of Gold Rushes
Author | : Benjamin Mountford,Stephen Tuffnell |
Publsiher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2018-10-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780520967588 |
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Nothing set the world in motion like gold. Between the discovery of California placer gold in 1848 and the rush to Alaska fifty years later, the search for the precious yellow metal accelerated worldwide circulations of people, goods, capital, and technologies. A Global History of Gold Rushes brings together historians of the United States, Africa, Australasia, and the Pacific World to tell the rich story of these nineteenth century gold rushes from a global perspective. Gold was central to the growth of capitalism: it whetted the appetites of empire builders, mobilized the integration of global markets and economies, profoundly affected the environment, and transformed large-scale migration patterns. Together these essays tell the story of fifty years that changed the world.
Mining Country
Author | : John Sandlos,Arn Keeling |
Publsiher | : James Lorimer & Company |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 2021-09-07 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9781459413535 |
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Mining has had a significant presence in every part of Canada — from the east to west coasts to the far north. This book tells the stories of those who built Canada’s mining industry. It highlights the experiences of the people who lived and worked in mining towns across the country, the rise of major mining companies, and the emergence of Toronto and Vancouver as centres of global mining finance. It also addresses the devastating effects mining has had on Indigenous communities and their land and documents several high-profile resistance efforts. Mining Country presents fascinating snapshots of Canadian mining past and present, from pre-contact Indigenous copper mining and trading networks to the famous Cariboo and Klondike Gold Rushes. Generously illustrated with more than 150 visuals drawn from every period of mining history, this book offers a thorough account of the story behind the industry.