Silver Veins, Dusty Lungs - Mining, Water, and Public Health in Zacatecas, 18351946

Rocio Gomez studies how the silver mining industry affected water resources and public health in the city of Zacatecas, Mexico, from 1835 to 1946.
 

List of contents

List of Illustrations    
Acknowledgments    
A Note about Mine Names    
Introduction    
1. Underground Bodies: Extraction, Exposure, and Dissection    
2. The Home: Drought, Wells, and Bodies of Water    
3. The City: The Mine and the Body    
4. The Body as Land: Water, Mining, and the Revolution    
5. The Body as Nation: Silicosis-Tuberculosis, Unions, and Revolutionary Death    
Conclusion: Toxic Legacies    
Notes    
Bibliography    
Index    

About the author

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.

Summary

Rocio Gomez studies how the silver mining industry affected water resources and public health in the city of Zacatecas, Mexico, from 1835 to 1946.

Product details

• Authors: Rocio Gomez
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.07.2020
• EAN: 9781496221117
• ISBN: 978-1-4962-2111-7
• No. of pages: 294
• Series: The Mexican Experience
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Amerikanische Geschichte, Süd- und Zentralamerika (inklusive Mexiko), Lateinamerika, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Environmental / Water Supply, History - General History, HISTORY / Latin America / Mexico