Mining the Borderlands : Industry, Capital, and the Emergence of Engineers in the Southwest Territories, 1855-1910 /

"'Capital mediators' argues that mining engineers were the critical intermediaries responsible for integrating the transnational hard-rock mining districts of North America into the economic system of the United States. Working as labor managers and technical experts, mining engineers...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Grossman, Sarah E. M. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Reno, Nevada : University of Nevada Press, [2018]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Mining engineers.
Mining corporations.
Mines and mineral resources.
Mineral industries > Economic aspects.
Mineral industries.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Industries > General.
Ingenieurs des mines > Region frontaliere mexicano-americaine > Histoire.
Mines > Industrie > Aspect economique > Region frontaliere mexicano-americaine > Histoire.
Mines and mineral resources > West (U.S.) > History.
Mining corporations > West (U.S.) > History.
Mineral industries > Mexican-American Border Region > History.
Mining engineers > Mexican-American Border Region > History.
Mineral industries > Economic aspects > Mexican-American Border Region > History.
West United States.
North America > Mexican-American Border Region.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Industrial transnationalism in the late nineteenth century
  • Early mining in the borderlands : the limits of "intelligence and capital"
  • Instituting expertise : mining education in the United States
  • Westering easterners : class, masculinity, and labor
  • Rhetoric and risk : the performance of objectivity at the Copper Queen Mine
  • Corporate capitalism : engineers and the birth of mass mining
  • Legibility and the technocratic landscape.

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