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1 online resource (xvi, 306 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Social approaches to the archaeology and anthropology of mining / A. Bernard Knapp -- The fabric and structure of Australian mining settlements / Peter Bell -- Gender and community structure on Australian colonial goldfields / Susan Lawrence -- Bedroom politics: ladies of the night and men of the day / Alexy Simmons -- Power and the industrial mining community in the American West / Donald L. Hardesty -- The mining camp as community / William A. Douglass -- Mining, colonialism, and culture contact: European miners and the indigenous population in the sixteenth-century Arctic / Robert M. Ehrenreich -- "Find the ekijunjumira": iron mine discovery, ownership, and power among the Toro of Uganda / S. Terry Childs -- Mining as microcosm in precolonial sub-Saharan Africa: an overview / Eugenia W. Herbert -- A risky business: death, injury, and religion in Cornish mining c. 1780-1870 / John Rule -- Silver shackles and copper collars: race, class, and labor in the Arizona mining industry from the eighteenth century until World War II / Thomas E. Sheridan -- Producing copper in the eastern Alps during the second millennum BC / Stephen Shennan -- Prehistoric copper mining in the context of emerging community craft specialization in northeast Thailand / Vincent C. Pigott -- Small-scale mining and smelting in ancient Cyprus / Vasiliki Kassianidou -- Exploiting the desert frontier: the logistics and politics of ancient Egyptian mining expeditions / Ian Shaw -- Gold-miners and mining at Bir Umm Fawakhir / Carol Meyer -- On the value of mixed methods in studying mining communities / David Killick -- Mining communities, chaînes opératoires, and sociotechnical systems / Bryan Pfaffenberger. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Miners -- Social conditions -- Congresses.
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Miners -- Social conditions. |
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Miners. |
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Mines and mineral resources -- History -- Congresses.
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Mines and mineral resources. |
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History. |
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Industrial archaeology -- Congresses.
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Industrial archaeology. |
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Electronic books.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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History.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Added Author |
Knapp, Arthur Bernard.
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Pigott, Vincent C.
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Herbert, Eugenia W.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Social approaches to an industrial past. London ; New York : Routledge, 1998 041518150X (DLC) 99170521 (OCoLC)40611175 |
| ISBN |
0203068920 (electronic book) |
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9780203068922 (electronic book) |
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9780415181501 |
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041518150X |
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