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Author: Ronald H. Limbaugh
Publisher: University of Nevada Press
Imprint: University of Nevada Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 2.40cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.600kg
ISBN: 9780874178203
ISBN 10: 0874178207
Pages: 312
Publication Date: 30 September 2010
Audience:
College/higher education
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
Limbaugh has compiled an excellent history of the technological, political, and international economics of tungsten, one of the world's most strategic metals, spanning a critical period of the 20th century. - CHOICE In short, this is an excellent book, one that should serve as an inspiration and model for future mining historians. -- Mining History Journal Tungsten in Peace and War will without doubt be the definitive technological and political history of a vital mineral. . . . In the hands of a less capable writer, this technological information could easily have ended up being as impenetrable as hardened steel for average readers, or even for the reader well versed in mining history. That is not the case here. . . . In many ways, this may be his most widely ranging and important book to date. - Carlos A. Schwantes, coauthor of The West the Railroads Made
"Limbaugh has compiled an excellent history of the technological, political, and international economics of tungsten, one of the world's most strategic metals, spanning a critical period of the 20th century."""" - CHOICE """"In short, this is an excellent book, one that should serve as an inspiration and model for future mining historians."""" -- Mining History Journal “Tungsten in Peace and War will without doubt be the definitive technological and political history of a vital mineral. . . . In the hands of a less capable writer, this technological information could easily have ended up being as impenetrable as hardened steel for average readers, or even for the reader well versed in mining history. That is not the case here. . . . In many ways, this may be his most widely ranging and important book to date.” - Carlos A. Schwantes, coauthor of The West the Railroads Made"
Limbaugh has compiled an excellent history of the technological, political, and international economics of tungsten, one of the world's most strategic metals, spanning a critical period of the 20th century. - CHOICE In short, this is an excellent book, one that should serve as an inspiration and model for future mining historians. -- Mining History Journal Tungsten in Peace and War will without doubt be the definitive technological and political history of a vital mineral... In the hands of a less capable writer, this technological information could easily have ended up being as impenetrable as hardened steel for average readers, or even for the reader well versed in mining history. That is not the case here... In many ways, this may be his most widely ranging and important book to date. - Carlos A. Schwantes, coauthor of The West the Railroads Made
Author Information
Ronald H. Limbaugh is an Idaho native and graduate of the University of Idaho (Ph.D. 1967). He retired in 2000 after thirty-four years teaching American history at the University of the Pacific. A western regional specialist, he has written a number of books and articles on a variety of topics, including territorial politics, mining, John Muir, and family history.
