The Struggle for Air: Mining, Dust, and Death on the South African Rand
Arcadia, Spring 2023, no. 6
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"'Hungry Dragons': Expanding the Horizons of Chinese Environmental History—Cantonese Gold-miners in Colonial New Zealand, 1860s–1920s "
This article examines the environmental impacts of Cantonese gold-miners in New Zealand and situates its research in both Chinese environmental history and comparative global environmental history.
A Post-Wilderness National Park: Naturecultures of Destruction and Recuperation in the Castlemaine Goldfields
Liquid Asset: Water in Victorian Gold Mining
Susan Lawrence and Peter Davies discuss the environmental consequences of water-resource infrastructures created during the gold rush in Victoria.
Dragons Abroad: Chinese Migration and Environmental Change in Australasia
An examination of the role played by Chinese immigration to New Zealand and Australia in the understanding of the environment.
Vienen Por El Oro, Vienen Por Todo [They Came For The Gold, They Came For It All]
This film follows an Argentinian town which must struggle to decide whether to allow a gold mine that could reduce poverty but also uses toxic mining methods.
Roșia Montană
This film follows the inhabitants of an ancient Carpathian village as they resist its destruction by a Romanian-Canadian corporation, which plans to turn it into Europe’s largest mine for gold and silver.
The Devil Operation
This film follows Father Marco, a priest who has earned a price on his head because of his opposition to Peru’s powerful mining companies.
"Environmental Experiences of Chinese People in the Mid-Nineteenth Century Australian Gold Rushes"
Fei Sheng analyzes the ecological factors in China that spurred migration to Australia at a time when the discovery of gold as a natural resource made the country an ideal migration destination. He shows how Chinese migrants applied their environmental experience in a white settler colony.
California Gold Rush
The California Gold Rush begins in 1848 when gold is discovered in Coloma, California. The promise of gold lures around 300,000 people to California and has a huge effect on the natural environment and the development of San Francisco as a world city and California as a state.
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