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Alan Probert Papers
The papers contain correspondence, articles, and subject files relating to Probert's career and writing. Oversize folder 1 contains mining diagrams; oversize folder 2 contains maps of Mexico.
Alan and Lillie M. Probert Collection
Correspondence, legal and business documents, transcripts, literary manuscripts, notes, photographs, printed material and maps relative to the Proberts' research interests. Subgroup I consists principally of materials relating to Mineral del Monte. It contains original documents concerning operation of the mines during their ownership by the Romero de Terreros family (1687-1824), and the English Compañía de Real del Monte (1823-1910). The latter group contains letters and reports from principal officers James Vetch and John Rule, and employees such as John Hitchcock Buchan. Subgroup I also contains transcripts and reproductions of materials from various archives, correspondence relating to...
Underground Leviathan
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 c...
The United States and the Global Struggle for Minerals
In 1973–1974 soaring commodity prices and an oil embargo alerted Americans to the twin dangers of resource exhaustion and dependence on unreliable foreign materials suppliers. This period seemed to mark a watershed in history as the United States shifted from the era of relative resource abundance to relative materials scarcity. Alfred E. Eckes’s comprehensive study shows that resource depletion and supply dislocations are not concerns unique to the 1970s. Since 1914, the quest for secure and stable supplies of industrial materials has been an important underlying theme of international relations and American diplomacy. Although the United States has been blessed with a diversified mater...
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