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The Three Deaths of Cerro de San Pedro : Four Centuries of Extractivism in a Small Mexican Mining Town /

"This is a history of precious-metals extractivism as lived in Cerro de San Pedro, a small gold- and silver-mining district in Mexico. Chronicling Cerro de San Pedro's operations from the time of the Spanish conquest to the present, Daviken Studnicki-Gizbert transcends standard narratives...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Studnicki-Gizbert, Daviken (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2022]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:"This is a history of precious-metals extractivism as lived in Cerro de San Pedro, a small gold- and silver-mining district in Mexico. Chronicling Cerro de San Pedro's operations from the time of the Spanish conquest to the present, Daviken Studnicki-Gizbert transcends standard narratives of boom and bust to envision a multicentury series of mining cycles, first operated under Spanish rule, then by North American industry, and today in the post-NAFTA world of transnational capitalism. The depletion of a mine did not mark the end of its life, it turns out"--
Descripción Física:1 online resource (324 pages): illustrations, maps ;
ISBN:9781469671123