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Mercury and the making of California [electronic resource] : mining, landscape, and race, 1840-1890 / Andrew Scott Johnston.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Boulder : University Press of Colorado, [2013] 2015)Description: 1 online resource (pages cm)ISBN:
  • 9781607322436
  • 1607322439
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 338.209794/09034 23
LOC classification:
  • HD9506.U63 C356 2013
Online resources:
Contents:
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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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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