Cover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Of Mines, Minerals, and North American Environmental History -- PART ONE. CAPITALIST TRANSFORMATIONS -- 1. Exhausting the Sierra Madre: Mining Ecologies in Mexico over the Longue Durée -- 2. Reconstru…
"Over the past five hundred years, North Americans have increasingly turned to mining to produce many of their basic social and cultural objects. From cell phones to cars and roadways, metal pots to wall tile and even talcum powder, minerals products have become central to moder…