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Mercury and the making of California mining, landscape, and race, 1840-1890
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Mercury and the making of California [electronic resource] : mining, landscape, and race, 1840-1890 / Andrew Scott Johnston.
ISBN
1607322439
9781607322436
1607322420
9781607322429 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Published
Boulder : University Press of Colorado, 2013 (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2013)
Physical Description
1 online resource (pages cm)
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Variant and related titles
Project MUSE - UPCC 2013 Complete.
Project MUSE - UPCC 2013 US Regional Studies, West.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
November 15, 2013
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction: California, the quicksilver state
British imperialism and California's quicksilver
Money and power in California's quicksilver industry
A geography of mercury mining in California
Ethnic and racial hierarchies at New Almaden
Race, technology and work in the 1870s
Race, family, and camp life in the 1870s
Conclusion: the legacy of mercury mining.
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