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Mining America

The Industry and the Environment, 1800-1980

Duane A Smith author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:University Press of Colorado

Published:15th Jan '94

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Mining America is a vivid account of the damage wrought by almost two centuries of mining, but its main focus is on the conflicting attitudes behind the destruction and on society's responses. Veteran author and historian Duane Smith asserts that the marriage of mining and environmental issues was bound to touch America's sensitive pocketbook nerve - but the question now is, are all groups willing to pay the price?

"...a well-documented survey...of the destructive impact of American mining practice upon the environment, and of the increasing public and political reaction to the devastation that mining produces. In a time when there is more heat than light generated upon the subject, it is a pleasure to note that the author has remained fair and dispassionate." —Western Historical Quarterly
"This book presents, in rich detail, the first balanced portrait of the clash between the world of the profit-oriented, individualistic mining man and the cosmos of the environmental worshipper... It is an important book, a powerful book, a book of optimism and sanity... coming from one of our most able historians of the American West." —Gene Gressley, American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming

ISBN: 9780870813061

Dimensions: 228mm x 152mm x 13mm

Weight: 331g

228 pages