The Greater Caribbean: From Plantations to Tourism
Traces the changes in the economy and land use in the Greater Caribbean from the colonial period to the present.
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Extracting Histories: Mining, Workers, and Environment
The current mining “boom” in Latin America is the latest reincarnation of a colonial era business that intensified with industrialization in the nineteenth century. The continuities in the practice are as striking as the breaks are remarkable.
Ore Mining in the Sauerland District in Germany: Development of Industrial Mining in a Rural Setting
The article traces the history of mining and smelting in Ramsbeck, Germany, showing how conflicting interests between mining and agriculture were negotiated.
Zolotitsa: How Diamond Mining Threatens the Ecological Conditions of a River Region
Reconstructing the History of Copper and Silver Mining in Schwaz, Tirol
This study brings together research in a variety of disciplines to reconstruct the history of mining in Schwaz, Tirol.
Mercurial Activity and Subterranean Landscapes: Towards an Environmental History of Mercury Mining in Early Modern Idrija
Hollsten focuses on the mercury mines at Idrija in order to trace the movement of this material and the various ways its history intersects with human history.
Ubiquitous Mining: The Spatial Patterns of Limestone Quarrying in Late Nineteenth-Century Rhineland
Haumann looks at the spatial patterns of open-pit limestone mining in the Mettmann district of Germany and tries to explain why these “holes” are in the places they are and why they took the shape they did.
Uranium Mining and the Environment in East and West Germany
Schramm compares the environmental impacts of uranium mining in East and West Germany.
L'or des Autres [The Gold of Others]
The documentary analyzes the changes a Canadian small town undergoes with the arrival of a global mining company.
Karabash: The City of Pollution
Arcadia, 2013, no. 14