Comstock Capitalism
The Law, the Lode, and the Science
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3924892 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Paul Lucier (National Endowment for the Humanities, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 33 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 210-231 |
| Publication date | 2018-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Osiris (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0369-7827 • E-ISSN: 1933-8287 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/699702 |
| OpenAlex | W2898465389 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 10 |
The term “Comstock capitalism” describes new commercial, legal, and scientific conditions emergent in the silver mining industry of the early 1860s in western Nevada. On the Comstock, the first joint-stock mining companies in the American West were incorporated, and stockholders, “the speculative interest,” underwrote exceptional investments in large labor forces, powerful machines, cutting-edge engineering, and, most importantly, incessant litigation. In high-stakes court cases over mining rights, men of science, as expert witnesses, played central roles in the takeover of silver mining by big, well-financed companies. The development of Comstock capitalism essentially rested on the consolidation of scientific theory. Where once there had been numerous silver veins, geologists found a new object of nature—an immense single deposit called the Comstock Lode
Business · Capitalism · Corporate governance · Economic history · Economics · Lode · Management · Mining engineering · Mining industry · Political science · Shareholder · American Environmental and Regional History · Engineering · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · History · History of Science and Natural History · Law · Finance · Geology
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,14 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2019 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |