Mercury and the making of California mining, landscape, and race, 1840-1890
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| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | English |
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Boulder
University Press of Colorado
2013
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| Schriftenreihe: | Mining the American West
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index Introduction: California, the quicksilver state -- British imperialism and California's quicksilver -- Money and power in California's quicksilver industry -- A geography of mercury mining in California -- Ethnic and racial hierarchies at New Almaden -- Race, technology and work in the 1870s -- Race, family, and camp life in the 1870s -- Conclusion: the legacy of mercury mining |
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| Beschreibung: | x, 284 Seiten Illustrationen 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 9781607322429 |