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Gray Gold - Lead Mining and Its Impact on the Natural and Cultural Environment, 1700-1840 (Hardcover)
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Gray Gold - Lead Mining and Its Impact on the Natural and Cultural Environment, 1700-1840 (Hardcover)
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While the histories of gold, silver, and copper mining and smelting
are well studied, lead has not received much scholarly attention
despite a long history of both Native American and European desire
for the ore. Over time, native peoples made lead ornaments in
molds; French and American settlers used lead to form musket balls;
red lead became an important production element for flint and
crystal production; and white lead was used in making paint until
the mid-twentieth century. Gray Gold aims to broaden understandings
of early colonial and Native American history by turning attention
to the ways that mining-and its scientific, technological,
economic, cultural, and environmental features-shaped intercultural
interactions and developments in the New World. Backed by
remarkable original sources such as firsthand mining accounts,
letters, and surveys, Mark Chambers's study demonstrates how early
mining techniques affected the culture clash between Native
Americans and Europeans all the while tracking the impact increased
mining had on the environment of what would become the states of
Illinois and Missouri. Chambers traces the evolution of lead mining
and smelting technology through pre-contact America, to the
amalgamation of aboriginal processes with French colonial
development, through Spain's short occupation to the Louisiana
Purchase and ultimately the technology transfer from Europe to an
efficient and year-round standard of practice after American
assumption. Additionally, while slavery in early American industry
has been touched on in iron manufacturing and coal mining
scholarship, the lead mining context sheds new light on the history
of that grievous institution. Gray Gold adds significantly to the
understanding of lead mining and the economic and industrial
history of the United States. Chambers makes important
contributions to the fields of United States history, Native
American and frontier history, mining and environmental history,
and the history of science and technology.
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