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Mining North America
George Vrtis (Hrsg.), John R. McNeill (Hrsg.)
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University of California Press 
Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik / Geschichte
Beschreibung
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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pollution, american culture, culture, society, cell phones, environmental history, roads, industrial, western world, materials, pipes, mining, environmental, vehicles, mining minerals, essay collection, mountains, environmentalism, industry, computers, minerals, cars, mining industry, environmentalist, natural world, north america, miners, impacts of mining