Underground Leviathan : Corporate Sovereignty and Mining in the Americas (Mining and Society Series)

Solares, Israel G.

University of Nevada Press（2024/06発売）

University of Nevada Press（2024/06発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 305 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781647791360
• DDC分類 338.7622097

Full Description

Underground Leviathan explores the emergence, dynamics, and lasting impacts of a mining firm, the United States Company. Through its exercise of sovereign power across the borders of North America in the early twentieth century, the transnational US Company shaped the business, environmental, political, and scientific landscape. Between its initial incorporation in Maine in 1906 and its final demise in the 1980s, the mining company held properties in Utah, Colorado, California, Nevada, Alaska, Mexico, and Canada. The firm was a prototypical management-ruled corporation, which strategically planned and manipulated the technological, production, economic, urban, environmental, political, and cultural activities wherever it operated, all while shaping social actors internationally, including managers, engineers, workers, neighbors, and farmers.

Author Israel G. Solares examines how the twentieth century multinational firm established and articulated multinational corporate sovereignty in ways that reflect other multinational titans, like the East Asian Trade companies, and presages the digital giants and space corporations of the twenty-first century. Bridging the domineering practices used during the colonization of Southern Asia with the futuristic colonies on the Moon, Underground Leviathan documents the cost of a corporation's unyielding desire to consume the secrets at the center of the Earth.

Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1. The Ghost and the Machine
Chapter 2. The Body of the Subjects
Chapter 3. Cosmopolitan Diseases
Chapter 4. Soviet of Technicians
Chapter 5. An Autopsy in Every Case
Chapter 6. Space of Exception
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the Author