Changing mines in America /
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| Author / Creator: | Goin, Peter, 1951- |
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Imprint: | Santa Fe, N.M. : The Center for American Places ; [Chicago] : Distributed by the University of Chicago Press, 2004. |
| Description: | 207 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 22 x 28 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5274517 |
Table of Contents:
- Prologue: mining the visual
- Introduction: waste places? mining and the American landscape
- 1. Recycling the mining landscape : Minnesota's Mesabi iron range
- 2. Living in anthracite : legacies of mining in Wyoming Valley, Pennsylvania
- 3. "Nobody around here glows" : uranium's ambiguous aftermath in Karnes County, Texas
- 4. "It's all in the mine" : the radon health mines of Boulder-Basin, Montana
- 5. World's biggest hole : creating and re-creating Bingham Canyon, Utah
- 6. Mining illusions : the case of Rawhide, Nevada
- 7. A mine is a terrible thing to waste : Eagle Mountain, California
- 8. Physical graffiti : variant versions of American Flat, Nevada
