Roaring Days: Rossland's Mines and the History of British Columbia

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UBC Press, 1995 - 236 страница
Although the book focuses on Rossland's sudden rise and its gradual decline as a mining town, the story of mining in the Kootenays is a local variant of a more profound event - the transformation of North America as it was brought within the network of world trade. In a world that measured progress by military strength and industrial capacity, the implications of direct access to mineral products were enormous.

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Smelters Railways
23
Miners and Early Industrial Relations in
67
This Militant Band of Labors Bravest
88
Social Relations in Fin de Siècle Rossland
109
The Emergence and Growth of Cominco
130
The End of the Roaring Days
151
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