How Mass Mining Changed Life and Landscape in the 20th Century
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February 19, 2018
Location: Okanagan Regional Library (Kelowna Branch)
Address: 1380 Ellis Street, Kelowna B.C.
Time: 6:45 pm - 8:00 pm
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How Mass Mining Changed Life and Landscape in the 20th Century
Without mass destruction mining, the mass production and consumption that became common for much of the world in the twentieth century would not be possible.
In the early part of twentieth century, construction and consumption vastly increased. In order to supply the raw materials required to feed this consumption, mining technologies had to keep pace. Highly-mechanized, high-throughput, mass-destruction mining resulted, and led to surges in production which fundamentally changed landscapes, labour and ways of life in mining regions.
Join us as Professor Eagle Glassheim explores these changes through case studies of mining towns in Europe, Canada and the United States. The recent history of mass destruction mining can help us see hidden connections between ourselves, the materials of our consumption, and remote mining landscapes and communities.
Four Towns that Moved: How Mass Mining Changed Life and Landscape in the 20th Century
UBC History and Sociology Speaker Series
Okanagan Regional Library - Kelowna Branch, 1380 Ellis Street, Kelowna B.C.
Speaker: Eagle Glassheim, Professor and Head of Department of History, University of British Columbia
Monday, February 19, 2018, 6:45 pm – 8:00 pm
Cost: FREE, but registration required
https://massmining.eventbrite.com
Okanagan Regional Library (Kelowna Branch) 1380 Ellis Street, Kelowna B.C.
events@kelownanow.com
Without mass destruction mining, the mass production and consumption that became common for much of the world in the twentieth century would not be possible.
In the early part of twentieth century, construction and consumption vastly increased. In order to supply the raw materials required to feed this consumption, mining technologies had to keep pace. Highly-mechanized, high-throughput, mass-destruction mining resulted, and led to surges in production which fundamentally changed landscapes, labour and ways of life in mining regions.
Join us as Professor Eagle Glassheim explores these changes through case studies of mining towns in Europe, Canada and the United States. The recent history of mass destruction mining can help us see hidden connections between ourselves, the materials of our consumption, and remote mining landscapes and communities.
Four Towns that Moved: How Mass Mining Changed Life and Landscape in the 20th Century
UBC History and Sociology Speaker Series
Okanagan Regional Library - Kelowna Branch, 1380 Ellis Street, Kelowna B.C.
Speaker: Eagle Glassheim, Professor and Head of Department of History, University of British Columbia
Monday, February 19, 2018, 6:45 pm – 8:00 pm
Cost: FREE, but registration required
https://massmining.eventbrite.com
