Mining in world history
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Mining in world history
（Globalities）
Reaktion, 2002
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Bibliography: p. 325-341
Includes index
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ISBN 9781861891259
内容説明
"Mining in World History" deals with the history of mining and smelting from the Renaissance to the oil crises of the 1970s, drawing out the interplay of personalities, politics and technology which have together shaped the metallurgical industries since the 1500s. Martin Lynch opens with the invention, sometime before the year 1453, of a revolutionary technique for separating silver from copper, an event which revived the rich copper-silver mines of central Europe and the ruling ambitions of the Habsburg emperors who owned them. The author shows how the flood of silver from Spain's newly-conquered American colonies brought about the demise of these mines, and goes on to examine the far-reaching changes brought to to mining and smelting by the steam engine and the industrial revolution. This text then looks at the era of the gold rushes and the comprehensive developments in mineral extraction and technology which took place in the United States and South Africa at the end of the 19th century, and describes the spread of mass metal-production techniques across the world amid the violent struggles of the 20th century and the energy crisis of the 1970s.
Written by an author experienced in this filed, "Mining in World History" provides an account of how and why change and advance in this global industry has taken place in different eras and locations around the world. As such it should appeal to the industry specialist as well as to the general reader who wants to know more about a filled which has been fundamental to the construction of civilization.
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: pbk ISBN 9781861891730
内容説明
Mining in World History deals with the history of mining and smelting from the Renaissance to the present day, drawing out, in an engaging and fast-paced fashion, the interplay of personalities, politics and technology which have together shaped the metallurgical industries over the last 500 years. Martin Lynch opens with the invention, sometime before the year 1453, of a revolutionary technique for separating silver from copper, an event that revived the rich copper-silver mines of central Europe and the ruling ambitions of the Habsburg emperors who owned them. The author shows how the flood of silver from Spain's newly-conquered American colonies brought about the demise of these mines, and goes on to examine the far-reaching changes brought to mining and smelting by the steam engine and the Industrial Revolution.
The book then looks at the era of the gold rushes and the comprehensive developments in mineral extraction and technology that took place in the United States and South Africa at the end of the nineteenth century, and describes the spread of mass metal-production techniques across the world amid the violent struggles of the twentieth century and the energy crises of the 1970s. Written by an author vastly experienced in the field, Mining in World History is the first book to provide an account of how and why change and advance in this global industry have taken place in different eras and locations around the world. As such it will appeal to the industry specialist as well as to the general reader who wants to know more about a field that has been fundamental to the construction of industrial civilization.
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