International competition and industrial change : essays in the history of mining and metallurgy, 1800-1950 / edited by Charles Harvey and Jon Press

Published:: London ; Portland, Or. : F. Cass, 1990.
Physical Description:: 167 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
Additional Creators:: Harvey, Charles, 1950- and Press, Jon, 1953-

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Contents:

Issues in the history of mining and metallurgy / Charles Harvey and Jon Press -- Serendipity or economics? tin and the theory of mineral discovery, 1800-1920 / Derek Matthews -- Mineral production, organisation and technological change: The Coeur D'Alene District of Idaho, 1890-1933 / Roger Burt -- 'Copperopolis': the rise and fall of the copper industry in the Swansea District, 1826-1931 / Edmund Newell -- The city and international mining, 1870-1914 / Charles Harvey and Jon Press -- Southern African mining interests in Australia before 1939 / Simon Katzenellenbogen -- Strategic responses to foreign competition: the British Coal Industry and the 1930 Coal Mines Act / Trevor Boyns -- Metal mining and canadian economic development before 1939 / Alexander C. Dow.

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ISBN:

0714634107
9780714634104

Note:

"First appeared in a special issue of Business history, vol. 32, no. 3"--T.p. verso.

Bibliography Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Source of Acquisition:

Earth and Mineral Sciences copy: Purchased with funds from the Kenneth & Marion Pollock Libraries Program Endowment; 2011.

Endowment Note:

Kenneth and Marion Pollock Libraries Program Endowment

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