{"product_id":"silver-veins-dusty-lungs-9781496221117","title":"Silver Veins Dusty Lungs","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e2021 Elinor Melville Prize for Latin American Environmental History\u003cbr\u003e Honorable Mentionfor the 2021 Best Book of Social Science from the LASA Mexico Section Awards\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In Mexico environmental struggles have been fought since the nineteenth century in such places as Zacatecas, where United States and European mining interests have come into open conflict with rural and city residents over water access, environmental health concerns, and disease compensation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In \u003ci\u003eSilver Veins, Dusty Lungs\u003c\/i\u003e, Rocio Gomez examines the detrimental effects of the silver mining industry on water resources and public health in the city of Zacatecas and argues that the human labor necessary to the mining industry made the worker and the mine inseparable through the land, water, and air. Tensions arose between farmers and the mining industry over water access while the city struggled with mudslides, droughts, and water source contamination. Silicosis-tuberculosis, along with accide\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“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 \u003ci\u003eRevolutionary Parks: Conservation, Social Justice, and Mexico’s National Parks, 1910–1940\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“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 \u003ci\u003eThe Ecology of Oil: Environment, Labor, and the Mexican Revolution, 1900–1938\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“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. \u003ci\u003eSilver Veins, Dusty Lungs\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003ePolitical Landscapes: Forests, Conservation, and Community in Mexico\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“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 \u003ci\u003eWatering the Revolution: An Environmental and Technological History of Agrarian Reform in Mexico\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations    \u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments    \u003cbr\u003e A Note about Mine Names    \u003cbr\u003e Introduction    \u003cbr\u003e 1. Underground Bodies: Extraction, Exposure, and Dissection    \u003cbr\u003e 2. The Home: Drought, Wells, and Bodies of Water    \u003cbr\u003e 3. The City: The Mine and the Body    \u003cbr\u003e 4. The Body as Land: Water, Mining, and the Revolution    \u003cbr\u003e 5. The Body as Nation: Silicosis-Tuberculosis, Unions, and Revolutionary Death    \u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: Toxic Legacies    \u003cbr\u003e Notes    \u003cbr\u003e Bibliography    \u003cbr\u003e Index    \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409231192407,"sku":"9781496221117","price":21.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781496221117.jpg?v=1730506060","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/silver-veins-dusty-lungs-9781496221117","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}