Mining the Borderlands: Industry, Capital, and the Emergence of Engineers in the Southwest Territories, 1855-1910

ISBN-13: 9781943859832 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 184 str.

Sarah E. M. Grossman

Opis

At the turn of the twentieth century, the US-Mexico border was home to some of the largest and most technologically advanced industrial copper mines. Mining the Borderlands argues that this was only possible because of the emergence of mining engineers - a distinct technocratic class of professionals who connected capital, labour, and expertise.