Book review: Mining the borderlands: Industry, capital, and the emergence of engineers in the Southwest Territories, 1855-1910

Many hundreds of books have been written about the fascinating subject of mining in the American Southwest. Sarah E. M. Grossman's Mining the Borderlands takes a distinctive approach by focusing on the history of mining engineers in Arizona in the United States and the state of Sonora in northern Mexico. With this focus she reveals not only an underappreciated aspect of American mining, but also describes issues pertaining to the penetration of capitalism into the Southwestern frontier.