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Underground Leviathan

Corporate Sovereignty and Mining in the Americas

Israel G Solares author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:University of Nevada Press

Published:30th Jun '24

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Underground Leviathan explores the emergence, dynamics, and lasting impacts of a mining firm, the United States Company. Through its exercise of sovereign power across the borders of North America in the early twentieth century, the transnational US Company shaped the business, environmental, political, and scientific landscape. Between its initial incorporation in Maine in 1906 and its final demise in the 1980s, the mining company held properties in Utah, Colorado, California, Nevada, Alaska, Mexico, and Canada. The firm was a prototypical management-ruled corporation, which strategically planned and manipulated the technological, production, economic, urban, environmental, political, and cultural activities wherever it operated, all while shaping social actors internationally, including managers, engineers, workers, neighbors, and farmers.

Author Israel G. Solares examines how the twentieth century multinational firm established and articulated multinational corporate sovereignty in ways that reflect other multinational titans, like the East Asian Trade companies, and presages the digital giants and space corporations of the twenty-first century. Bridging the domineering practices used during the colonization of Southern Asia with the futuristic colonies on the Moon, Underground Leviathan documents the cost of a corporation's unyielding desire to consume the secrets at the center of the Earth.

Underground Leviathan makes a worthwhile addition to early studies of mining multinationals in the twentieth century and provides the first comprehensive narrative of the United States Company's development.” - Thomas O'Brien, Professor Emeritus, John and Rebecca Moores Professor of History, University of Houston, author of The Making of the Americas from the Age of Revolutions to the Era of Globalization

ISBN: 9781647791360

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 272g

305 pages