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Mass destruction : the men and giant mines that wired America and scarred the planet / Timothy J. LeCain.
- Title
- Mass destruction : the men and giant mines that wired America and scarred the planet / Timothy J. LeCain.
- Author
- LeCain, Timothy J., 1960-
- Publication
- New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2009.
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| Text | Request in advance | TN443.A5 L43 2009 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xii, 273 p. : ill., map; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "Mass Destruction is the compelling story of Daniel Jackling and the development of open-pit hard rock mining, its role in the wiring of an electrified America, and its devastating environmental effects. This new method of mining, complimenting the mass production and mass consumption that came to define the "American way of life"in the early twentieth century, promised infinite supplies of copper and other natural resources. LeCain deftly analyzes how open-pit mining continues to adversely effect the environment and how, as the world begins to rival American resource consumption, no viable alternatives have emerged."--The Publisher.
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- Project Muse UPCC books
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- Genre/Form
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- In the lands of mass destruction -- Between the heavens and the earth -- The stack -- The pit -- The dead zones.
- ISBN
- 9780813545295 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 0813545293 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2008035434
- OCLC
- 243777652
- SCSB-12734602
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library