Mercury and the making of California [electronic resource] : mining, landscape, and race, 1840-1890 / Andrew Scott Johnston.
Material type: TextPublication details: Boulder : University Press of Colorado, [2013] 2015)Description: 1 online resource (pages cm)ISBN:- 9781607322436
- 1607322439
- Mining camps -- California -- History -- 19th century
- Landscapes -- California -- History -- 19th century
- Mercury ores -- California -- History -- 19th century
- Mineral industries -- California -- History -- 19th century
- California -- History -- 19th century
- California -- Social conditions -- 19th century
- California -- Economic conditions -- 19th century
- 338.209794/09034 23
- HD9506.U63 C356 2013
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.
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