Living with Lead

An Environmental History of Idaho's Coeur D'Alenes, 1885-2011

Bradley D. Snow (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

272 Seiten

2017
University of Pittsburgh Press (Verlag)
978-0-8229-6448-3 (ISBN)

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The Coeur d'Alenes, a twenty-five by ten mile portion of the Idaho Panhandle, is home to one of the most productive mining districts in world history. Historically the globe's richest silver district and also one of the nation's biggest lead and zinc producers, the Coeur d'Alenes' legacy also includes environmental pollution on an epic scale. For decades local waters were fouled with tailings from the mining district's more than one hundred mines and mills and the air surrounding Kellogg, Idaho was laced with lead and other toxic heavy metals issuing from the Bunker Hill Company's smelter. The same industrial processes that damaged the environment and harmed human health, however, also provided economic sustenance to thousands of local residents and a string of proud, working-class communities. Living with Lead endeavors to untangle the costs and benefits of a century of mining, milling, and smelting in a small western city and the region that surrounds it.

Bradley D. Snow is assistant teaching professor at Montana State University.

Erscheinungsdatum	01.04.2017
Reihe/Serie	Intersections: Histories of Environment
Verlagsort	Pittsburgh PA
Sprache	englisch
Maße	150 x 230 mm
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
	Technik ► Bergbau
ISBN-10	0-8229-6448-1 / 0822964481
ISBN-13	978-0-8229-6448-3 / 9780822964483
Zustand	Neuware