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 The
Construction of a Modern Industry in a Remote Mining Region: 1916-1930"
Vergara's lecture
took place Thursday, November 14, 2002 in the Centennial Complex Stock
Growers' Groom.
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Angela Vergara |
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Angela Vergara is currently an assistant professor at the
University of Texas-Pan American,
teaching American Heritage II and The Caribbean and Central
America. Her lecture, The Construction of a Modern Industry
in a Remote Mining Region: 1916-1930, looked at the history
of a subsidiary of Anaconda Copper Company, The Andes Copper Company,
in Chile between 1916 and 1930. She addressed three questions: Why
did the construction of the mine of Potrerillos make such a strong impression
on the local community? Why were the local authorities fascinated
by the arrival of a foreign company in the district of Chaņaral? What
was new in the ways Andes Copper was organized and the mine exploited?
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