Daviken Studnicki-Gizbert

This is a history of precious-metals extractivism as lived in Cerro de San Pedro, a small gold-and silver-mining district in Mexico. Chronicling Cerro de San Pedro's operations from the time of the Spanish conquest to the present, Daviken Studnicki-Gizbert transcends standard narratives of boom and bust to envision a multicentury series of mining cycles, first operated under Spanish rule, then by North American industry, and today in the post-NAFTA...