Mercury and the Making of California Mining, Landscape, and Race, 1840-1890 / [Recurso electrónico] :
Andrew Scott Johnston.
- Boulder : University Press of Colorado, 2013
- 1 online resource (pages cm)
- Book collections on Project MUSE. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: California, the quicksilver state -- British imperialism and California's quicksilver -- Money and power in California's quicksilver industry -- A geography of mercury mining in California -- Ethnic and racial hierarchies at New Almaden -- Race, technology and work in the 1870s -- Race, family, and camp life in the 1870s -- Conclusion: the legacy of mercury mining.