Mass Destruction: The Men and Giant Mines That Wired America and Scarred the Planet

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ONE. IN THE LANDS OF MASS DESTRUCTION . Andrea Gemmet, “The House That Jackling Built,” Almanac,  February . . Andrea Gemmet,“Steve Jobs Wins Fight to Tear Down Woodside House,” Almanac,  December . The headline refers to the earlier town council decision later overturned by the Superior Court judge. See also Patricia Leigh Brown, “In Silicon Valley, Tear-Down Interrupted,” New York Times,  July . . Patty Fisher, “Historic? By Whose Definition?” Mercury News,  January . . Letter from Anthea M. Hartig, Chair, California State Historical Resources Commission to Paul Goeld, Mayor, Woodside, California,  September , available online at www.friendsofthejacklinghouse.org/letter.html, accessed  September . . Ibid. . See, for example, Ira Beaman Joralemon, Romantic Copper: Its Lure and Lore (NewYork and London: D.Appleton-Century,);Watson Davis,The Story of Copper (New York and London: Century, ), A. B. Parsons and American Institute of Mining Metallurgical and Petroleum Engineers, The Porphyry Coppers (New York: AIMMPE, ), and T. A. Rickard, Man and Metals: A History of Mining in Relation to the Development of Civilization (New York and London: Whittlesey House, McGraw-Hill, ). . Quoted in Gemmet,“The House That Jackling Built.” . Ronald C. Brown,“Daniel C. Jackling and Kennecott: A Mining Entrepreneur ’s Adjustment to Corporate Bureaucracy,”Mining History Journal  (): . . Douglas Brinkley, Wheels for the World: Henry Ford, His Company, and a Century of Progress (New York: Penguin Books, ), .
. “Henry Ford Is Dead at  in Dearborn,” New York Times,  April . . Utah History Encyclopedia, s.v.“Daniel Cowan Jackling.” . In this emphasis on speed and nonselectivity, the concept of mass destruction is very different than the idea of “brute force technology” offered in Paul R. Josephson,Industrialized Nature: Brute Force Technology and the Transformation of the Natural World (Washington, D.C.: Island Press/Shearwater Books, ). . William Cronon, Nature’s Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West (New York: Norton, ), –. . This point is well made in Bruno Latour, We Have Never Been Modern (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, ), –. . William Cronon, “The Trouble with Wilderness; or, Getting Back to the Wrong Nature,” Environmental History  (): –. . “Ancient Lead Emissions Polluted Arctic,” Science News,  November . . Duncan Adams,“Did Toxic Stew Cook the Goose?” High Country News,  December ; and Mark Levine, “As the Snake Did Away with the Geese,” Outside (September ). . Edwin Dobb,“Pennies from Hell: In Montana, the Bill for America’s Copper Comes Due,” Harper’s (October ): –. . Levine,“As the Snake Did Away with the Geese.” . Jeffrey St. Clair,“Something About Butte,” Counterpunch (January ). . This powerful Montana and later international mining company has gone through several corporate forms and names, including a period as a part of the Standard Oil trust when it was the Amalgamated Copper Company. For the sake of convenience and brevity, in this book the corporation will be referred to simply as the Anaconda. . Mumford’s fascination with the Deutsches Museum mines is related in Rosalind Williams, Notes on the Underground: An Essay on Technology, Society, and the Imagination (Cambridge: MIT Press, ), –. . Lewis Mumford, Technics and Civilization (; New York: Harcourt Brace, ), –, quote from –. . Williams, Notes on the Underground, –. . Richard White, “From Wilderness to Hybrid Landscapes: The Cultural Turn in Environmental History (American West Portrayals),” Historian , no.  (): . . See, for example, T. C. Onstott et al., “The Deep Gold Mines of South Africa: Windows into the Subsurface Biosphere,” Proceedings of the SPIE  (): –. . Edmund Russell, for example, has suggested the provocative thesis that stock animals, dogs, and perhaps other organisms can be usefully analyzed as human-designed technologies, which inspired a conference on this theme held at the Hagley Museum and Library. See Susan R. Schrepfer and Philip Scranton, eds., Industrializing Organisms: Introducing Evolutionary History (New York: Routledge , ). See also Michael Bess, “Artificialization and Its Discontents,” and Notes to Pages 6–21 • 232 • Angela Gugliotta,“Environmental History and the Category of the Natural,” both in Environmental History  (January ).Also seminal have been Arthur F. McEvoy , “Working Environments: An Ecological Approach to Industrial Health and Safety,”Technology and Culture  (Supplement, ): S–; Christopher Sellers , “Body, Place and the State: The Makings of An ‘Environmentalist’ Imaginary in the Post–World War II U.S.,”Radical History Review  (): –; Conevery Bolton Valencius, The Health of the Country: How American Settlers Understood Themselves and Their Land (New York: Basic Books, ); Gregg Mitman, “In Search of Health: Landscape and Disease in American Environmental History,” Environmental History  (): –; and Linda Nash, “Finishing Nature: Harmonizing Bodies and Environments in Late-Nineteenth-Century California,” Environmental History  (): –. From a history of science perspective, Bruno Latour’s concept of a web of...