continental Europe. As a point of comparison, copper mining and its monetary use in the early modern Atlantic World will also be … considered. Contributors rely mainly on economic and economic history methodologies, complemented by geographical and cultural … history approaches. The use of novel software applications as tools to explain economic-historical episodes is also detailed. …

Chapter 1: From Mining to Money in the Early Modern Atlantic: Digital Approaches and New Perspectives; Renate Pieper …, Claudia Jefferies de Lozanne and Markus A. Denzel -- Chapter 2: Money in History Based on Precious Metals; Peter Bernholz …: Understanding Spatial Patterns of Colonial Spanish America’s Silver Mining in the Digital Age; Werner Stangl -- Chapter 6 …

field. This book provides an introduction to the most recent techniques in multimedia semantic mining necessary to …Video representation and processing for multimedia data mining / Amr Ahmed -- Image features from morphological scale ….] -- Active learning for relevance feedback in image retrieval / Jian Cheng, Kongqiao Wang, Hanqing Lu -- Visual data mining based …

This book provides the most comprehensive survey of mining activity and the principal challenges confronting the … business risks faced by mining companies operating in the region from both academic and corporate perspectives. It focuses on … aspects of mining, mining and indigenous peoples, climate change, and impact assessment. The contributors to this volume are …

"This volume investigates how mining affects societies and communities in Mongolia and Kyrgyzstan. As ex-Soviet states …, Mongolia and Kyrgyzstan share history, culture and transitions to democracy. Most importantly, both are mineral-rich countries … mining in this dynamic region. Using Mongolia and Kyrgyzstan as case studies, the volume reflects on the evolving challenges …