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Mining in World History
Martin Lynch
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Description for Mining in World History
Paperback. 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. Series: Globalities. Num Pages: 356 pages, 8 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: KNAT; TBX; TTU. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 227 x 134 x 21. Weight in Grams: 460.
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 a revolutionary technique for separating silver from copper, an event that revived the rich copper-silver mines of central Europe and the ruling ambitions of the Habsburg emperors who owned them. The author shows how the flood of silver from Spain's newly-conquered American ... Read more
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 a revolutionary technique for separating silver from copper, an event that revived the rich copper-silver mines of central Europe and the ruling ambitions of the Habsburg emperors who owned them. The author shows how the flood of silver from Spain's newly-conquered American ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Reaktion Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
356
Condition
New
Series
Globalities
Number of Pages
356
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781861891730
SKU
V9781861891730
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99-10
About Martin Lynch
Martin Lynch is Australian and has been employed in the mining industry for more than ten years. He is currently working for a well-known consultancy, conducting research on the global metallurgical industries.
Reviews for Mining in World History
'This is quite simply the best history ever published on the role of mining in shaping world events. It performs the huge task of making sense of a complex range of industries that took many forms and produced many products, over centuries of change and development across every continent on earth. It does so in just 350 pages of succinct ... Read more