"How Chinese migration to the world's goldfields upended global power and economics and forged modern conceptions of race. In roughly five decades, between 1848 and 1899, more gold was removed from the earth than had been mined in the 3,000 preceding years. But friction between Chinese and white...

"One Shot for Gold: Developing a Modern Mine in Northern California is an oral history of the development and operation of the McLaughlin Mine, the last major gold mine operated by the Homestake Mining Company in Napa County. It is a major contribution to mining history after 1980 in that it...