1st Edition

International Competition and Industrial Change Essays in the History of Mining and Metallurgy 1800-1950

By Charles Harvey, Professor Jon Press Copyright 1990

    First Published in 1990. This collection of essays is intended shed light upon key issues in the history of mining and metallurgy: issues such as investment and organisation; professionalisation; the impact of technological change; and the problematic relationship between mineral wealth and sustained economic development.

    Chapter 1 Issues in the History of Mining and Metallurgy, Charles Harvey, Jon Press; Chapter 2 Serendipity or Economics? Tin and the Theory of Mineral Discovery and Development, 1800–1920, Derek Matthews; Chapter 3 Mineral Production, Organisation and Technological Change: The Coeur D'alene District of Idaho, 1890–1933, Roger Burt; Chapter 4 ‘Copperopolis’: The Rise and Fall of the Copper Industry in the Swansea District, 1826–1921, Edmund Newell; Chapter 5 The City and International Mining, 1870–1914, Charles Harvey, Jon Press; Chapter 6 Southern African Mining Interests in Australia Before 1939, Simon Katzenellenbogen; Chapter 7 Strategic Responses to Foreign Competition: The British Coal Industry and the 1930 Coal Mines Act, Trevor Boyns; Chapter 8 Metal Mining and Canadian Economic Development to 1939, Alexander C. Dow;

    Biography

    Charles Harvey, Jon Press