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2021 Elinor Melville Prize for Latin American Environmental History
Honorable Mention for the 2021 Best Book of Social Science from the LASA Mexico Section Awards
In Mexico environmental struggles have been fought since the nineteenth century in such places as Zacatecas, where United States and European mining interests have come into open conflict with rural and city residents over water access, environmental health concerns, and disease compensation.
In Silver Veins, Dusty Lungs, Rocio Gomez examines the detrimental effects of the silver mining industry on water resources and public health in the city of Zacatecas and argues that the human labor necessary to the mining industry made the worker and the mine inseparable through the land, water, and air. Tensions arose between farmers and the mining industry over water access while the city struggled with mudslides, droughts, and water source contamination. Silicosis-tuberculosis, along with accidents caused by mining technologies like jackhammers and ore-crushers, debilitated scores of miners. By emphasizing the perspective of water and public health, Gomez illustrates that the human body and the environment are not separate entities but rather in a state of constant interaction.
Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
A Note about Mine Names
Introduction
1. Underground Bodies: Extraction, Exposure, and Dissection
2. The Home: Drought, Wells, and Bodies of Water
3. The City: The Mine and the Body
4. The Body as Land: Water, Mining, and the Revolution
5. The Body as Nation: Silicosis-Tuberculosis, Unions, and Revolutionary Death
Conclusion: Toxic Legacies
Notes
Bibliography
Index
