Format:
1 Online-Ressource
Edition:
Online-Ausg. [S.l.] HathiTrust Digital Library Electronic reproduction
ISBN:
0253009367
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0253009480
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0253009286
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9780253009364
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9780253009487
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9780253009289
Series Statement:
Tracking globalization
Content:
Elizabeth Emma Ferry traces the movement of minerals as they circulate from Mexican mines to markets, museums, and private collections. She describes how and why these byproducts of ore mining come to be valued by people in various walks of life as scientific specimens, religious offerings, and luxury collectibles. The story of mineral exploration and trade defines a rich and variegated US-Mexican space and sheds new light on this complex relationship
Content:
Histories, mineralogies, economies -- Shifting stones : mineralogy and mineral collecting in Mexico and the United States -- Making scientific value -- Mineral collections and their minerals : building up U.S.-Mexican transnational spaces -- Making places in space : miners and collectors in Guanajuato and Tucson -- Mineral marketplaces, arbitrage, and the production of difference
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Use copy Restrictions unspecified star MiAaHDL
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Electronic reproduction
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
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English
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Ferry, Elizabeth Emma Minerals, collecting, and value across the U.S.-Mexico border Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2013]
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English
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