The Three Deaths of Cerro de San Pedro : Four Centuries of Extractivism in a Small Mexican Mining Town.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Studnicki-Gizbert, Daviken.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Silver mines and mining.

Precious metal industries.

Mineral industries--Social aspects.

Mineral industries--Environmental aspects.

Gold mines and mining.

Mineral industries--Environmental aspects--Mexico--Cerro de San Pedro (San Luis Potosí)--History.

Mineral industries.

Mineral industries--Social aspects--Mexico--Cerro de San Pedro (San Luis Potosí)--History.

Silver mines and mining--Mexico--Cerro de San Pedro (San Luis Potosí)--History.

Gold mines and mining--Mexico--Cerro de San Pedro (San Luis Potosí)--History.

Precious metal industries--Mexico--Cerro de San Pedro (San Luis Potosí)--History.

Mexico--Cerro de San Pedro (San Luis Potosí).

Cerro de San Pedro (San Luis Potosí, Mexico)--History.

Cerro de San Pedro (San Luis Potosí, Mexico).

Genre:

History.

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (325 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2022.

Summary:

"This is a history of precious-metals extractivism as lived in Cerro de San Pedro, a small gold- and silver-mining district in Mexico. Chronicling Cerro de San Pedro's operations from the time of the Spanish conquest to the present, Daviken Studnicki-Gizbert transcends standard narratives of boom and bust to envision a multicentury series of mining cycles, first operated under Spanish rule, then by North American industry, and today in the post-NAFTA world of transnational capitalism. The depletion of a mine did not mark the end of its life, it turns out"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover

Contents

List of Illustrations

Preface

Introduction

Part I. Extractivism Assembled

1. Extractivism Assembled (1494-1650s)

2. The Temporal, Sublime

3. Mining in the Land of War

4. The Bonanza

5. The Metabolism of Extraction

6. The Miners' Share

7. The First Death of Cerro de San Pedro

Part II. Extractivism Revived

8. Extractivism Revived (1740s-1940s)

9. The Industrial Bonanza

10. The New Ecologies of Industrial Mining

11. De Profundis

12. The Revolution Underground

13. Fire in the Mountain

14. The Second Death of Cerro de San Pedro

Part III. Extractivism, Again

15. Extractivism, Again (1980s-Present)

16. The Last Mine

17. ¡Que Viva Cerro de San Pedro!

18. A Contemporary Moral Ecology Forms, Tactics, and Emblematics

19. The Politics of Appeasement

20. The Third Death of Cerro de San Pedro

Acknowledgments

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

979-88-908624-0-2

979-88-908624-1-9

1-4696-7112-3

OCLC:

1352971557