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UNINA9910825436603321 |
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Autore |
Curtis Kent A |
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Titolo |
Gambling on ore : the nature of metal mining in the United States, 1860-1910 / / Kent A. Curtis |
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Boulder, : University Press of Colorado, 2013 |
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ISBN |
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1-4571-8398-6 |
1-60732-235-8 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (251 p.) |
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Collana |
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Classificazione |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Metallurgy - United States - History |
Metal trade - United States - History |
Mines and mineral resources - Social aspects - United States - History - 19th century |
Mines and mineral resources - Social aspects - United States - History - 20th century |
Ores - United States |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Figures""; ""Preface and Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction: Arsenic in the Wilderness, or Knowing Nature through Mining""; ""1: Producing a Mining Landscape""; ""2: The Value of Ores""; ""3: Turning Copper into Gold""; ""4: The Ecology of Ore Processing""; ""Conclusion: Producing a Mining Society""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index"" |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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"Gambling on Ore examines the development of the western mining industry from the tumultuous and violent Gold Rush to the elevation of large-scale copper mining in the early twentieth century, using Montana as representative of mining developments in the broader US mining west. Employing abundant new historical evidence in key primary and secondary sources, Curtis tells the story of the inescapable relationship of mining to nature in the modern world as the United States moved from a primarily agricultural society to a mining nation in the second half of the nineteenth century. In Montana, legal issues and politics--such as unexpected consequences of federal mining law and the electrification of the United States--further complicated the mining |
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