Vision and Enterprise: Exploring the History of Phelps Dodge Corporation

by Carlos A. Schwantes

Book Overview

Phelps Dodge Corporation has shaped the landscape of America from the industrial revolution to the information technology revolution. A name synonymous with copper, Phelps Dodge has grown from a cotton and metal trading firm founded in 1834 to its present position as the world's largest publicly traded copper company.

Carlos Schwantes has written a sweeping corporate history of Phelps Dodge. Using landscape as an organizing concept...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816519439
• ISBN13: 9780816519439
• Release Date: August 2000
• Publisher: University of Arizona Press
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 5.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 10.5" x 9.9"

Customer Reviews

Definitive history of Phelps Dodge

This is a superb work that is thoroughly researched, well written, and beautifully illustrated. This was a vast enterprise, including not just the Phelps Dodge mining empire but the ancillary El Paso & Southwestern Railroad, which is also relatively well covered. (For more information on the El Paso & Southwestern, see David F. Myrick, Railroads of Arizona, Vol. I & III, and his Railroads of New Mexico, and Dorothy Jensen Neal, The Cloud Climbing Railroad.) Phelps Dodge was a pillar of the Arizona economy until its acquisition by Freeport McMoRan just short of the corporation's century mark, and these mining properties still from both a major part of the copper industry and the state's history. This is an excellent work and I recommend it to anyone interested in Arizona, mining, or western history.