Swansea Copper: A Global History

by Chris Evans, Louise Miskell, Chris Evans

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1421439115
• ISBN13: 9781421439112
• Release Date: October 2020
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 242 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"