Mining the borderlands : industry, capital, and the emergence of engineers in the Southwest Territories, 1855-1910
Record details
- ISBN: 1943859841
- ISBN: 9781943859849
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (viii, 175 pages)
remote - Publisher: Reno, Nevada : University of Nevada Press, [2018]
- Copyright: ©2018
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Industrial transnationalism in the late nineteenth century -- Early mining in the borderlands : the limits of "intelligence and capital" -- Instituting expertise : mining education in the United States -- Westering easterners : class, masculinity, and labor -- Rhetoric and risk : the performance of objectivity at the Copper Queen Mine -- Corporate capitalism : engineers and the birth of mass mining -- Legibility and the technocratic landscape. |
Restrictions on Access Note: | NLC staff and students only. |
Source of Description Note: | Online resource; title from digital cover (viewed on August 30, 2018). |
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Genre: | History |