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Building to Extract: Architecture & Natural Resources ARCH 1901
- Wastelanding: Legacies of Uranium Mining in Navajo Country by Traci Brynne Voyles
- Architecture & the Face of Coal: Mining & Modern Britain by Gary A. Boyd
- Oil Revolution: Anticolonial Elites, Sovereign Rights & the Economic Culture of Decolonization by Christopher R. W. Dietrich
- Company Towns in the Americas: Landscape, Power & Working-Class Communities by Dinius & Vergara
- The Company Town: Architecture & Society in the Early Industrial Age by John Garner
- The Company Town by Hardy Green
- Classes of Labour: Work & Life in a Central Indian Steel Town by Jonathan Parry
- El Dorado In West Africa: The Gold Mining Frontier, African Labor & Colonial Capitalism by Raymond E. Dumett
- Company Towns of the Pacific Northwest by Linda Carlson
- The World in a Grain: The Story of Sand & How It Transformed Civilization by Vince Beiser
- City of Black Gold: Oil, Ethnicity & the Making of Modern Kirkuk by Arbella Bet-Shlimon
- Brazilβs Steel City: Developmentalism, Strategic Power & Industrial Relations in Volta Redonda, 1941-1964 by Oliver Dinius
- Extraction Ecologies & the Literature of the Long Exhaustion by Elizabeth Carolyn Miller