Books’ Selection 2022

Robrecht Declercq, Duncan Money, and Hans Otto Frøland (eds.), Born with a Copper Spoon. A Global History of Copper, 1830–1980, University of Chicago Press, 2022

Michael Farrenkopf, Stefan Siemer, The Material Cultures of Mining: Object History in the Fields of Knowledge, Technology, Everyday Life, and Memory, De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2022

Margaret Lindsay Faull, Commemorating Coal Mining Worldwide. International museums, heritage centres and sites related to coal mining, BAR Publishing, 2022.

Rebecca Jane Hall, Refracted Economies: Diamond Mining and Social Reproduction in the North, University of Toronto Press, 2022

Fabrizio La Manna, La condizione dei carusi nella Sicilia dello zolfo. Questione sociale, priorità economiche e rimozioni ai margini della nuova Italia, Il Grano, Messina 2022.

Duncan Money,  ‘White Mineworkers on Zambia’s Copperbelt, 1926-1974: In a Class of Their Own, Brill, 2021.

Hyden Munene, Copper King in Central Africa. Corporate Organization, Labor Relations, and Profitability of Zambia’s Rhokana Corporation, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2022.

Noonan, Alan JM. Mining Irish-American Lives: Western Communities from 1849 to 1920. Vol. 1. University Press of Colorado, 2022.

Victor Seow, Carbon Technocracy: Energy Regimes in Modern East Asia, Chicago, 2022. 

Betsy Fahlman et al., Landscapes of  Extraction: The Art of Mining in the American West, Hirmer, November 2021.

Ivano dal Prete, On the Edge of Eternity. The Antiquity of the Earth in Medieval and Early Modern Europe, Oxford University Press, 2022

Fernández Suárez, Guillermo, La minería del carbón en España: de la posguerra al siglo XXI (1939-2001),Fundación Alvargonzález, Gijon, 2022

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