The City That Ate Itself : Butte, Montana and Its Expanding Berkeley Pit /

rian James Leech provides a social and environmental history of Butte, Montana's Berkeley Pit, an open-pit mine which operated from 1955 to 1982. Using oral history interviews and archival finds, The City That Ate Itself explores the lived experience of open-pit copper mining at Butte's in...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Leech, Brian James (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2018
Colección:Mining and society series.
Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Strip mining > Montana > Butte.
Copper mines and mining > Montana > Butte.
Butte (Mont.) > History.
Butte (Mont.) > Environmental conditions.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • part I. Mining is life, 1864-1954
  • 1. Underground
  • 2. Neighborhoods
  • part II. Working the pit, 1955-75
  • 3. Protest
  • 4. Work
  • part III. Feeding the factory, 1955-75
  • 5. Hazards
  • 6. Acquisition
  • part IV. The pit is dead (long live the pit), 1970-2017
  • 7. Salvation
  • 8. Reclamation.

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