Article ID: CBB001422656

A World of Copper: Globalizing the Industrial Revolution, 1830--70 (2015)

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For most of human history the smelting of metallic ores has been performed immediately adjacent to the ore body. In the 1830s the copper industry that was centred on Swansea in the UK departed abruptly from that ancient pattern: Swansea smelters shipped in ores from very distant locations, including sites in Australasia, Latin America, and southern Africa. Swansea became the hub of a globally integrated heavy industry, one that deployed capital on a very large scale, implanted British industrial technologies in some very diverse settings, and mobilized a transnational workforce that included British-born `labour aristocrats', Chinese indentured servants, and African slaves. This paper explores the World of Copper between its inception c.1830 and its demise in the aftermath of the American Civil War. It asks what the experience of this precociously globalized industry can contribute to some current concerns in global history.

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Authors & Contributors
Solar, Peter M.
Zahedieh, Nuala
Mary Mills
Davenport, Romola
Trinder, Barrie Stuart
Mathias, Regine
Concepts
Industrial revolution
Smelting
Copper and copper industry
Technological innovation
Mines and mining
Technology
Time Periods
19th century
18th century
17th century
Edo period (Japan, 1603-1868)
Prehistory
Enlightenment
Places
Great Britain
Wales
Japan
Middle and Near East
Greenwich (England)
Birmingham (England)
Institutions
Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (Great Britain)
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