Globalization, Natural Resource Extraction, and Boomtowns
Abstract
And not only was the rich soil required to furnish corn and due sustenance, but men even descended into the entrails of the Earth; and riches were dug up, the incentives to vice, which the Earth had hidden, and had removed to the Stygian shades. 2 Then destructive iron came forth, and gold, more destructive than iron; then War came forth...
Fields of Study & Subjects
Natural Resources and Economic Development
Extractivism and Socioeconomic Issues
Mining and Resource Management
Publication details
- Journal / source
- Routledge eBooks
- Pages
- 13–28
- Publication date
- 3 February 2026
- Language
- EN
- Document type
- Book chapter