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Gambling on Ore by"Kent Curtis"
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 industry’s already complex relationship to geology, while government policy, legal frameworks, dominant understandings of nature, and the exigencies of profit and production drove the industry in momentous and surprising directions. Despite its many uncertainties, mining became an important part of American culture and daily life. Gambling on Ore unpacks the tangled relationships between mining and the natural world that gave material possibility to the age of electricity. Metal mining has had a profound influence on the human ecology and the social relationships of North America through the twentieth century and throughout the world after World War II. Understanding how we forged these relationships is central to understanding the environmental history of the United States after 1850.
Gambling on Ore
By:"Kent Curtis"
Published on 2013-07-15 by University Press of Colorado
BOOKS ID : ONW9AwAAQBAJ
Ebook Title : Gambling on Ore
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ISBN_13 Code : 9781457183966
ISBN_10 Code : 145718396X
Book Print Type : BOOK
Rank : 23 for keyword gambling utah
Book Author :"Kent Curtis"
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
Book Pages Count : 288
Print Type : BOOK
Book's Categories :"History"
Books Language : en
Text to Speech Access : ALLOWED
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