Mercury and the Making of California

Mining, Landscape, and Race, 1840-1890

von Andrew Scott Johnston

298 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Mercury and the Making of California, Andrew Johnston's multidisciplinary examination of the history and cultural landscapes of California's mercury-mining industry, raises mercury to its rightful place alongside gold and silver in the development of the American West. > This pioneering study explicates the mutual structuring of the built environments of the mercury-mining industry and the emergence of California's ethnic communities. Combining rich documentary sources with a close examination of the existing physical landscape, Johnston explores both the detail of everyday work and life in the mines and the larger economic and social structures in which mercury mining was enmeshed, revealing the significance of mercury mining for Western history.

• Reihe: University Press of Colorado
• ISBN: 9781607324621
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 17.02.2026
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: Univ of Chicago behalf of UP Colorado