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
Legacy 106, Inc.
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