Ebook Mining in World History (Globalities)
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Published on: 2012-11-06
Released on: 2012-11-06
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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 arevolutionary technique for separating silver from copper, an event thatrevived the rich copper-silver mines of central Europe and the rulingambitions of the Habsburg emperors who owned them. The author shows how theflood of silver from Spain's newly-conquered American colonies brought aboutthe demise of these mines, and goes on to examine the far-reaching changesbrought to mining and smelting by the steam engine and the IndustrialRevolution. The book then looks at the era of the gold rushes and thecomprehensive developments in mineral extraction and technology that tookplace in the United States and South Africa at the end of the nineteenthcentury, and describes the spread of mass metal-production techniques acrossthe world amid the violent struggles of the twentieth century and the energycrises of the 1970s.Written by an author vastly experienced in the field, Mining in WorldHistory is the first book to provide an account of how and why change andadvance in this global industry have taken place in different eras andlocations around the world. As such it will appeal to the industryspecialist as well as to the general reader who wants to know more about afield that has been fundamental to the construction of industrialcivilization.
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