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Index
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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
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