Gray gold : lead mining and its impact on the natural and cultural environment, 1700-1840 / Mark Milton Chambers.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chambers, Mark Milton, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lead mines and mining--Middle West--History.

Lead mines and mining.

Lead mines and mining--Environmental aspects--Middle West.

Indians of North America--Middle West.

Indians of North America.

Cultural landscapes.

Lead mines and mining--Environmental aspects.

History.

Middle West.

Cultural landscapes--Middle West.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xiv, 258 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Knoxville : The University of Tennnessee Press, 2021.

Summary:

"This book explores Native American and Euro-American lead mining in the Midwest. As Europeans flooded North America and moved westward, their own mining practices were greatly informed by Native American mining methods already in place. And while many researchers have explored gold, silver, and copper mining and smelting, lead has not received much scholarly attention, despite a long history of Native American and European desire for the ore. Chambers reflects on how early mining techniques affected the culture clash between Native Americans and European colonists, all the while tracking the impact increased mining had on the environment of what would become the states of Illinois and Missouri"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Early Mining and Smelting in North America

ch. 2 Tracing Eighty Years of Early Mining Associations

ch. 3 Early Mineralogical Assessments and Emerging Science

ch. 4 Unhealthy Spaces Fitted Up with Furnaces.

Notes:

Outgrowth of the author's thesis (doctoral)--Stony Brook University, 2012, under the title: River of gray gold : cultural and material changes in the land of ores, country of minerals, 1719-1839.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Chambers, Mark Milton. Gray gold

ISBN:

9781621906988

1621906981

OCLC:

1250305600