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Daniel Silva

Daniel Silva is a Ph.D. student at the Geography Department at the University of Texas at Austin.

Review of The Global Interior: Mineral Frontiers and American Power (2018) by Megan Black

February 17, 2023

In The Global Interior, Megan Black uses the Department of the Interior’s (DOI) controversial history to examine how the U. S. government wielded political and economic power to access natural resources in the American West and influence international policy. The book’s title illustrates the irony of a department responsible for internal affairs being involved in […]

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