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Making sense of mining history : themes and agendas / edited by Stefan Berger and Peter Alexander

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Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, [2019]
Physical Description
xiv, 330 pages ; 25 cm.
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Berger, Stefan and Alexander, Peter, 1953 October 29-

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Foreword / Stefan Berger and Peter Alexander -- Mining history : sub-fields and agendas / Stefan Berger -- Archaeology of mining in the pre-industrial age : the recognition and interpretation of ancient mines / Simon Timberlake -- Engineering changes : the cause and consequence of modern mining methods at Butte, Montana; Johannesburg, South Africa; and Broken Hill, New South Wales / Jeremy Mouat -- A comparative account of deep-level gold mining in India and South Africa : implications for workers' lives / Dunbar Moodie -- Local moments in mining history : some ideas on the relationship between foreign and native in Mexican silver mining / Alma Parra -- Coal-mining, migration, and ethnicity : a global history / Ad Knotter -- Culture and classed identity in shaping unionisation on mines / Peter Alexander. and Feminising an ancient human endeavour : gendered spaces in mining / Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt -- Accidents and mining : the problem of the risk of explosion in industrial coal mining in global perspective / Michael Farrenkopf -- On fatalities, accidents, and accident prevention in coal mines : colliers' safety discourse in oral testimony from the Ruhr in Germany and the Witbank Collieries in South Africa / Paul Stewart and Dagmar Kift -- The state, labour conflicts, and coal mining / Chris Wrigley -- This land is my land : global indigenous struggles and the adivasi resistance in Muthanga (Kerala, India) / Pavithra Narayanan -- Black gold and environmental enemy no. 1 : towards a visual history of coal / Stefan Siemer -- Environmental history and global mining : towards a neo-materialist approach / Timothy J. LeCain -- Mining heritage / Stefan Berger.
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9780367198688 hardcover
0367198681 hardcover
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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