TY  - BOOK
AU  - Johnston,Andrew Scott
ED  - Project Muse.
TI  - Mercury and the making of California: mining, landscape, and race, 1840-1890 
SN  - 9781607322436
AV  - HD9506.U63 C356 2013
U1  - 338.209794/09034 23
PY  - 2013///]
CY  - Boulder
PB  - University Press of Colorado
KW  - Mining camps
KW  - California
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Landscapes
KW  - Mercury ores
KW  - Mineral industries
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Economic conditions
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - local
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction: California, the quicksilver state -- British imperialism and California's quicksilver -- Money and power in California's quicksilver industry -- A geography of mercury mining in California -- Ethnic and racial hierarchies at New Almaden -- Race, technology and work in the 1870s -- Race, family, and camp life in the 1870s -- Conclusion: the legacy of mercury mining
UR  - https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9781607322436/
ER  -