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Swansea Copper : A Global History /

"This is a history of copper as a commodity, which focuses on copper produced in Swansea, Wales, and sold around the world. Between the 1770s and the 1840s, the Swansea district produced nearly half of the world's smelted copper. This book traces the history of copper making in Britain beg...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Evans, Chris, 1961- (Autor), Miskell, Louise (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Baroque copper -- Swansea's apprenticeship -- Swansea's ascendancy -- Global Swansea -- Global fragmentation -- The end of Swansea copper -- Swansea copper in world historical perspective. 
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