Any good books about GTO?

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Elizabeth Emma Ferry's book "Not Ours Alone" is an anthropological examination of the Santa Fe mining collective. Several mines in the area became a collective enterprise after failure of foreign ownership due to low metal prices.

Although someone familar with Guanajuato and its mining history and with surrounding communities might find it interesting, from my perspective it is best suited for an anthropologist or urbanist. Parts of the book are interesting, but it reads like a PHD dissertation; written for other anthropologists. The author lived in Santa Rosa for a few years in the late 1990's and describes her experience, and also describe the lives of the miners living in Santa Rosa and in Guanajauto, but not in enough detail.

More is written about what the book intends to describe, than what is ever described.

Still, as a geologist with a mining background, I found it worth reading, but it would be little use, and boring, for someone with just a general interest in the city of Guanajuato.

Then again, I'm sure it would be considered an important work for someone in her field. As I inferred before; it's way over my head.