Smoke Wars: Anaconda Copper, Montana Air Pollution, and the Courts, 1890-1920.Donald MacMillan. Helena, MT: Montana Historical Society Press, 2000. (800) 243-9900. 304 pp. $40.00 Clothbound cloth·bound adj. Having a cover of thick paper boards covered with cloth. Used of a book. ; $18.95 Paperbound pa·per·bound adj. Bound in paper; paperback. . Smoke Wars: Anaconda Copper Anaconda Copper Mining Company (until 1915 known as the Amalgamated Copper Mining Company), one of the largest trusts of the early 20th century which owned all the mines on Butte Hill, Montana, USA. , Montana Air Pollution, and the Courts, 1890-1920 explores the history of air pollution by focusing on two copper mining and smelting smelting, in metallurgy, any process of melting or fusion, especially to extract a metal from its ore. Smelting processes vary in detail depending on the nature of the ore and the metal involved, but they are typified in the use of the blast furnace. communities in Montana. MacMillan discusses the public outcry over extremely high death rates due to noxious smoke from heap roasting, the struggles of farmers to protect their livestock and crops from harmful pollution, and the federal government's protest of damage to national forests. MacMillan reasons that the environmental movement can learn from this history and what it has to teach about corporate responsibility, citizens' rights, the costs of industrialization industrialization Process of converting to a socioeconomic order in which industry is dominant. The changes that took place in Britain during the Industrial Revolution of the late 18th and 19th century led the way for the early industrializing nations of western Europe and , and the value of the environment. Donald MacMillan researched this book in the early 1970s for his Ph.D dissertation at the University of Montana. MacMillan died in 1996, and the book is published posthumously with an introduction by William L. Lang. |
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