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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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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill :
The University of North Carolina Press,
[2022]
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| Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
| Résumé: | "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"-- |
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| Description matérielle: | 1 online resource (324 pages): illustrations, maps ; |
| ISBN: | 9781469671123 |