Silver Veins, Dusty Lungs by Rocio Gomez
Rocio Gomez studies how the silver mining industry affected water resources and public health in the city of Zacatecas, Mexico, from 1835 to 1946.-
The Mysterious Sofia
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Routes of Compromise
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The Inevitable Bandstand
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Murder and Counterrevolution in Mexico
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From Angel to Office Worker
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San Miguel De Allende
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Death Is All Around Us
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Railroad Radicals in Cold War Mexico
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Forceful Negotiations
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Pistoleros and Popular Movements
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The Heart in the Glass Jar
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Alcohol and Nationhood in Nineteenth-Century Mexico
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Matters of Justice
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From Idols to Antiquity
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Women Made Visible
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The Lawyer of the Church
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Seen and Heard in Mexico
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Muy Buenas Noches
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Working Women, Entrepreneurs, and the Mexican Revolution
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The Plan De San Diego
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Deco Body, Deco City
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Celebrating Insurrection
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Mexico, La Patria
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Redeeming the Revolution
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Gender and the Negotiation of Daily Life in Mexico, 1750-1856
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The Civilizing Machine
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Radio in Revolution
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Apostle of Progress
“Tracing the ‘ecology of extraction,’ Gomez brilliantly connects the ecosystems of city, mountain, body, and microbe into a comprehensive and compelling story. . . In doing so, Gomez reminds us that silver mining haunts the past and the present of Zacatecas and that reckoning with those legacies greatly enhances our understandings of Mexican history and our capacity to imagine a more just and sustainable future.”—Emily Wakild, author of Revolutionary Parks: Conservation, Social Justice, and Mexico’s National Parks, 1910–1940
“What Gomez uncovered is not pretty, but it is important not only for environmental history but for all mining communities today.”—Myrna Santiago, author of The Ecology of Oil: Environment, Labor, and the Mexican Revolution, 1900–1938
“This book traces a previously unexplored aspect of the storied silver mines of Zacatecas. Long after the colonial bonanza had faded, the mines found new life thanks to new technology and foreign capital. Rocio Gomez shows how the mining renaissance created toxic environments that permeated the bodies of those who lived and worked above ground and below, even as it poisoned the waters on the people of arid Zacatecas depended. Silver Veins, Dusty Lungs is a major contribution to Mexican environmental history, to history of public health, and—most important—to our understanding of the relationship between the two.”—Chris Boyer, author of Political Landscapes: Forests, Conservation, and Community in Mexico
“Well researched. . . . Focusing on the emblematic case of Zacatecas, [this book] expands our understanding of, and should appeal to a broad set of readers interested in, this important topic.”—Mikael D. Wolfe, author of Watering the Revolution: An Environmental and Technological History of Agrarian Reform in Mexico
“What Gomez uncovered is not pretty, but it is important not only for environmental history but for all mining communities today.”—Myrna Santiago, author of The Ecology of Oil: Environment, Labor, and the Mexican Revolution, 1900–1938
“This book traces a previously unexplored aspect of the storied silver mines of Zacatecas. Long after the colonial bonanza had faded, the mines found new life thanks to new technology and foreign capital. Rocio Gomez shows how the mining renaissance created toxic environments that permeated the bodies of those who lived and worked above ground and below, even as it poisoned the waters on the people of arid Zacatecas depended. Silver Veins, Dusty Lungs is a major contribution to Mexican environmental history, to history of public health, and—most important—to our understanding of the relationship between the two.”—Chris Boyer, author of Political Landscapes: Forests, Conservation, and Community in Mexico
“Well researched. . . . Focusing on the emblematic case of Zacatecas, [this book] expands our understanding of, and should appeal to a broad set of readers interested in, this important topic.”—Mikael D. Wolfe, author of Watering the Revolution: An Environmental and Technological History of Agrarian Reform in Mexico
Rocio Gomez is Dr. and Mrs. Harold Greer Jr. Assistant Professor in Latin American History at Virginia Commonwealth University. She won the 2019 Edwin Lieuwen Award for promotion of excellence in the teaching of Latin American studies from the Rocky Mountain Council for Latin American Studies.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780803290891 |
| ISBN 10 | 0803290896 |
| Title | Silver Veins, Dusty Lungs |
| Author | Rocio Gomez |
| Series | The Mexican Experience |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | University of Nebraska Press |
| Year published | 2020-07-01 |
| Number of pages | 294 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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