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Minnesota’s Twin Cities have long been powerful engines of
change. From their origins in the early nineteenth century, the
Twin Cities helped drive the dispossession of the region’s Native
American peoples, turned their riverfronts into bustling industrial
and commercial centers, spread streets and homes outward to the
horizon, and reached well beyond their urban confines, setting in
motion the environmental transformation of distant hinterlands. As
these processes unfolded, residents inscribed their culture into
the landscape, complete with all its tensions, disagreements,
contradictions, prejudices, and social inequalities. These stories
lie at the heart of Nature’s Crossroads. The book features an
interdisciplinary team of distinguished scholars who aim to open
new conversations about the environmental history of the Twin
Cities and Greater Minnesota.
Over the past five hundred years, North Americans have increasingly
relied on mining to produce much of their material and cultural
life. From cell phones and computers to cars, roads, pipes, pans,
and even wall tile, mineral-intensive products have become central
to North American societies. As this process has unfolded, mining
has also indelibly shaped the natural world and the human societies
within it. Mountains have been honeycombed, rivers poisoned,
forests leveled, and the consequences of these environmental
transformations have fallen unevenly across North America. Drawing
on the work of scholars from Mexico, the United States, and Canada,
Mining North America examines these developments. It covers an
array of minerals and geographies while bringing mining into the
core debates that animate North American environmental history.
Taken all together, the essays in this book make a powerful case
for the centrality of mining in forging North American environments
and societies.
Over the past five hundred years, North Americans have increasingly
relied on mining to produce much of their material and cultural
life. From cell phones and computers to cars, roads, pipes, pans,
and even wall tile, mineral-intensive products have become central
to North American societies. As this process has unfolded, mining
has also indelibly shaped the natural world and the human societies
within it. Mountains have been honeycombed, rivers poisoned,
forests leveled, and the consequences of these environmental
transformations have fallen unevenly across North America. Drawing
on the work of scholars from Mexico, the United States, and Canada,
Mining North America examines these developments. It covers an
array of minerals and geographies while bringing mining into the
core debates that animate North American environmental history.
Taken all together, the essays in this book make a powerful case
for the centrality of mining in forging North American environments
and societies.
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