You might want to contact Ron Reno (he used to work out of Nevada), who  
delivered a paper at the 1998 SHA Conference in Atlanta, GA:
 
Reno, Ron L.
1998 "Histories Without Meaning: Glocalization and The Historical  
Archaeology of Mining." SHA Atlanta, GA.
 
This glocalization hypothesis proposed that westward expansion of mining  
(and other industries, like agriculture and fishing and lumbering) engaged in  
the greater global market place. He cited the work of Michael Kearny, who  
proposed that western expansion of U.S. American ideals and application of  
economic procedures for capitalized resource development arose from networking  among 
U.S. Congressmen, banks, and various industries and mining schools in the  
midwest. The westward spread of these ideas involved newspapers, magazines,  
bulletins, and public speaking engagements that sparked the westward movement  
players into a common arena. Those industrialists, legislators, and capitalists  
enlisted foreign powers and markets to receive and process the products of 
the  American west via maritime shipping and later, rail. Thus, the soldiers,  
investors, and argonauts who arrived in the Mexican West in the mid 19th 
century  were mentally armed with glocalization "plans" to develop trade, mining, 
lumber  harvesting, fishing, and agricultural systems that would feed back to 
Eastern  and European commercial centers. Kearny coined the term Glocalization 
for the  application of global development and Reno expanded it to archaeology 
modeling. 
 
Five years ago, I tested Reno's Glocalization Model on the ruins of a small  
agricultural homestead in rural San Diego County, California:
 
Ronald V. May
2001 "The Roeslein Homestead on the San Dieguito River: A Test at  CA-SDI-316 
for Local Patterns of Glocalization in a Rural California  Agricultural 
Community." Paper submitted to the South Coast Information Center,  San Diego State 
University, San Diego, California.
 
Ron May
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