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Evans, C and Saunders, O (2015) A world of copper: globalizing the Industrial Revolution, 1830-70. Journal of Global History, 10 (1). pp. 3-26. ISSN 1740-0228
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Abstract
For most of human history the smelting of metallic ores has been performed immediately adjacent to the ore body. In the 1830s the copper industry that was centred on Swansea in the UK departed abruptly from that ancient pattern: Swansea smelters shipped in ores from very distant locations, including sites in Australasia, Latin America, and southern Africa. Swansea became the hub of a globally integrated heavy industry, one that deployed capital on a very large scale, implanted British industrial technologies in some very diverse settings, and mobilized a transnational workforce that included British-born ‘labour aristocrats’, Chinese indentured servants, and African slaves. This paper explores the World of Copper between its inception c.1830 and its demise in the aftermath of the American Civil War. It asks what the experience of this precociously globalized industry can contribute to some current concerns in global history.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | 2103 Historical Studies |
| Subjects: | D History General and Old World > D History (General) |
| Divisions: | Humanities & Social Science |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press (CUP) |
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| Date Deposited: | 23 Oct 2018 08:28 |
| Last Modified: | 04 Sep 2021 02:18 |
| DOI or ID number: | 10.1017/S1740022814000345 |
| URI: | https://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/9526 |
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