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Author: Nicholas A. Robins
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Imprint: Indiana University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 2.50cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.658kg
ISBN: 9780253356512
ISBN 10: 0253356512
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 25 July 2011
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
This is interdisciplinary history at its best. A path-breaking study that... Will certainly be a 'must-read' book. David Cahill, University of New South Wales Overall, this is a fantastic book that brings together environmental, labor, and colonial history, confirming the contributions of environmental studies to understanding the past. ... Highly recommended. Choice, March 2012 The book itself is a distinguished contribution to the polemic on mining, colonialism, and socio-environmental degradation. It will make for a strong addition to undergraduate and graduate lists. Robins's synthetic skills, the descriptive richness of the historical source work, the verve of the writing, and the passion of the argument, all combine to make Mercury, Mining, and Empire a book to be reckoned with. Daviken Studnicki-Gizbert, H-Environment, August 2012 In Mercury, Mining and Empire, Nicholas Robins provides a superbly researched piece of interdisciplinary history that argues that the post-Conquest genocide of the indigenous population of what is now Bolivia and Peru occurred as a result of a highly exploitative system of silver and mercury mining. Thus Robins analyzes a 'double genocide' that initially entailed the death of up to ninety percent of the indigenous peoples due to illnesses brought to the Americas by the Spanish, and continued with the subsequent genocidal destruction wrought by the toxic effects of the emerging mining industry. - Journal of Genocide Research, 2012
This is interdisciplinary history at its best. A path-breaking study that... will certainly be a 'must-read' book. David Cahill, University of New South Wales
This is interdisciplinary history at its best. A path-breaking study that... will certainly be a 'must-read' book. David Cahill, University of New South Wales
This is interdisciplinary history at its best. A path-breaking study that... will certainly be a 'must-read' book. David Cahill, University of New South Wales Overall, this is a fantastic book that brings together environmental, labor, and colonial history, confirming the contributions of environmental studies to understanding the past. ... Highly recommended. Choice, March 2012
Author Information
Nicholas A. Robins is a lecturer in the Department of History at North Carolina State University. He is author of Native Insurgencies and the Genocidal Impulse in the Americas (IUP, 2005) and editor (with Adam Jones) of Genocides by the Oppressed: Subaltern Genocide in Theory and Practice (IUP, 2009), among other works.
