Rocio Gomez

Silver Veins, Dusty Lungs

Mining, Water, and Public Health in Zacatecas, 1835-1946

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Produktbeschreibung

Rocio Gomez studies how the silver mining industry affected water resources and public health in the city of Zacatecas, Mexico, from 1835 to 1946.  

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nebraska
• Seitenzahl: 294
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 603g
• ISBN-13: 9780803290891
• ISBN-10: 0803290896
• Artikelnr.: 58121535

Autorenporträt

Rocio Gomez is Dr. and Mrs. Harold Greer Jr. Assistant Professor in Latin American History at Virginia Commonwealth University. She won the 2019 Edwin Lieuwen Award for promotion of excellence in the teaching of Latin American studies from the Rocky Mountain Council for Latin American Studies.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations    
Acknowledgments    
A Note about Mine Names    
Introduction    
1. Underground Bodies: Extraction, Exposure, and Dissection    
2. The Home: Drought, Wells, and Bodies of Water    
3. The City: The Mine and the Body    
4. The Body as Land: Water, Mining, and the Revolution    
5. The Body as Nation: Silicosis-Tuberculosis, Unions, and Revolutionary
Death    
Conclusion: Toxic Legacies    
Notes    
Bibliography    
Index