Swansea Copper

Author : Chris Evans
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN 13 : 1421439115
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Swansea Copper written by Chris Evans and published by Johns Hopkins University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-27 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This insightful book will be of interest to anyone concerned with the historical roots of globalization and the Industrial Revolution as a global phenomenon.

Author : Chris Evans
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421439123
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Swansea Copper written by Chris Evans and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2020-10-27 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book to detail the global impact of copper production in Swansea, Wales, and how a major technological shift transformed the British Isles into the world's most dynamic center of copper smelting. Eighteenth-century Swansea, Wales, was to copper what nineteenth-century Manchester was to cotton or twentieth-century Detroit to the automobile. Beginning around 1700, Swansea became the place where a revolutionary new method of smelting copper, later christened the Welsh Process, flourished. Using mineral coal as a source of energy, Swansea's smelters were able to produce copper in volumes that were quite unthinkable in the old, established smelting centers of central Europe and Scandinavia. After some tentative first steps, the Swansea district became a smelting center of European, then global, importance. Between the 1770s and the 1840s, the Swansea district routinely produced one-third of the world's smelted copper, sometimes more. In Swansea Copper, Chris Evans and Louise Miskell trace the history of copper making in Britain from the late seventeenth century, when the Welsh Process transformed Britain's copper industry, to the 1890s, when Swansea's reign as the dominant player in the world copper trade entered an absolute decline. Moving backward and forward in time, Evans and Miskell begin by examining the place of copper in baroque Europe, surveying the productive landscape into which Swansea Copper erupted and detailing the means by which it did so. They explain how Swansea copper achieved global dominance in the years between the Seven Years' War and Waterloo, explore new commercial regulations that allowed the importation to Britain of copper ore from around the world, and connect the rise of the copper trade to the rise of the transatlantic slave trade. They also examine the competing rise of the post–Civil War US copper industry. Whereas many contributions to global history focus on high-end consumer goods—Chinese ceramics, Indian cottons, and the like—Swansea Copper examines a producer good, a metal that played a key role in supporting new technologies of the industrial age, like steam power and electricity. Deftly showing how deeply mineral history is ingrained in the history of the modern world, Evans and Miskell present new research not just on Swansea itself but on the places its copper industry affected: mining towns in Cuba, Chile, southern Africa, and South Australia. This insightful book will be of interest to anyone concerned with the historical roots of globalization and the Industrial Revolution as a global phenomenon.

Author : George Grant Francis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Smelting of Copper in the Swansea District of South Wales written by George Grant Francis and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : George Grant Francis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Smelting of Copper in the Swansea District of South Wales written by George Grant Francis and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Stephen Hughes
Publisher : RCAHMW
ISBN 13 : 1871184010
Total Pages : 55 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Guide to the Industrial Archaeology of the Swansea Region written by Stephen Hughes and published by RCAHMW. This book was released on 1989 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales has a leading national role in developing and promoting understanding of the archaeological, built and maritime heritage of Wales, as the originator, curator and supplier of authoritative information for individual, corporate and governmental decision makers, researchers, and the general public.

Author : Robin Craig
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 1786949113
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book British Tramp Shipping, 1750-1914 written by Robin Craig and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2017-10-18 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study explores the history of tramp-shipping in the United Kingdom, between 1750 and 1914. It defines ‘tramp’ as steamships exclusively hulled with iron or steel. The purpose of the journal is to keep the history of tramp-shipping from fading into obscurity, as the author believes the tramp steamer does not invoke sentimentality nor provide enough glamour to sustain the same level of maritime interest enjoyed by sailing ships or ocean liners. The study is split into four major sections, the first concerning tramp-shipping, ownership, and capital formation; the second concerning trade, specifically copper ore and African guano; the third studies tramp seamen - particularly sea masters; and the final and largest section considers individual tramp-shipping regions, further subdivided by region - Wales, the Northwest, the West Country, the Northeast, the Southeast, and Canada. The volume is punctuated with statistics, tables, charts, glossaries, and concludes with a bibliography of author Robin Craig’s further maritime writing.

Author : W. E. Minchinton
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9780415382519
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Industrial South Wales 1750-1914 written by W. E. Minchinton and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2005-11-03 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together a selection of important contributions hitherto only accessible in a large number of scattered periodicals. These articles have been selected to present a considered sequence and are preceded by an introduction which puts the story of the industrialization of Wales into perspective.

Author : William Henry Jones
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book History of the Port of Swansea written by William Henry Jones and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : George Grant FRANCIS
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Smelting of Copper in the Swansea District, from the Time of Elizabeth to the Present Day written by George Grant FRANCIS and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : David Gwynn
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445693593
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lost Swansea written by David Gwynn and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2019-08-15 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fully illustrated description of Swansea’s well known, and lesser known, places that have been lost over the years.