Mining for the Nation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mining for the Nation write by Jody Pavilack. This book was released on 2011. Mining for the Nation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Examines the politics of coal miners in Chile during the 1930s and '40s, when they supported the Communist Party in a project of cross-class alliances aimed at defeating fascism, promoting national development, and deepening Chilean democracy"--Provided by publisher.
Wastelanding
Wastelanding - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Wastelanding write by Traci Brynne Voyles. This book was released on 2015-05-15. Wastelanding available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Wastelanding tells the history of the uranium industry on Navajo land in the U.S. Southwest, asking why certain landscapes and the peoples who inhabit them come to be targeted for disproportionate exposure to environmental harm. Uranium mines and mills on the Navajo Nation land have long supplied U.S. nuclear weapons and energy programs. By 1942, mines on the reservation were the main source of uranium for the top-secret Manhattan Project. Today, the Navajo Nation is home to more than a thousand abandoned uranium sites. Radiation-related diseases are endemic, claiming the health and lives of former miners and nonminers alike. Traci Brynne Voyles argues that the presence of uranium mining on Diné (Navajo) land constitutes a clear case of environmental racism. Looking at discursive constructions of landscapes, she explores how environmental racism develops over time. For Voyles, the “wasteland,” where toxic materials are excavated, exploited, and dumped, is both a racial and a spatial signifier that renders an environment and the bodies that inhabit it pollutable. Because environmental inequality is inherent in the way industrialism operates, the wasteland is the “other” through which modern industrialism is established. In examining the history of wastelanding in Navajo country, Voyles provides “an environmental justice history” of uranium mining, revealing how just as “civilization” has been defined on and through “savagery,” environmental privilege is produced by portraying other landscapes as marginal, worthless, and pollutable.
Highgrade, the Mining Story of National, Nevada
Highgrade, the Mining Story of National, Nevada - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Highgrade, the Mining Story of National, Nevada write by Nancy B. Schreier. This book was released on 1981. Highgrade, the Mining Story of National, Nevada available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
To Save the Land and People
To Save the Land and People - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook To Save the Land and People write by Chad Montrie. This book was released on 2003-11-20. To Save the Land and People available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Surface coal mining has had a dramatic impact on the Appalachian economy and ecology since World War II, exacerbating the region's chronic unemployment and destroying much of its natural environment. Here, Chad Montrie examines the twentieth-century movement to outlaw surface mining in Appalachia, tracing popular opposition to the industry from its inception through the growth of a militant movement that engaged in acts of civil disobedience and industrial sabotage. Both comprehensive and comparative, To Save the Land and People chronicles the story of surface mining opposition in the whole region, from Pennsylvania to Alabama. Though many accounts of environmental activism focus on middle-class suburbanites and emphasize national events, the campaign to abolish strip mining was primarily a movement of farmers and working people, originating at the local and state levels. Its history underscores the significant role of common people and grassroots efforts in the American environmental movement. This book also contributes to a long-running debate about American values by revealing how veneration for small, private properties has shaped the political consciousness of strip mining opponents.
Mining North America
Mining North America - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mining North America write by John R. McNeill. This book was released on 2017-07-03. Mining North America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Over the past five hundred years, North Americans have increasingly turned to mining to produce many of their basic social and cultural objects. From cell phones to cars and roadways, metal pots to wall tile and even talcum powder, minerals products have become central to modern North American life. As this process has unfolded, mining has also indelibly shaped the natural world and North Americans' relationship with it. Mountains have been honeycombed, rivers poisoned, and forests leveled. The effects of these environmental transformations have fallen unevenly across North American societies. Mining North America examines these developments. Drawing on the work of scholars from Mexico, the United States, and Canada, this book explores how mining has shaped North America over the last half millennium. It covers an array of minerals and geographies while seeking to draw mining into the core debates that animate North American environmental history generally. Taken together, the authors' contributions make a powerful case for the centrality of mining in forging North American environments and societies"--Provided by publisher.
