Born with a Copper Spoon

A Global History of Copper, 1830–1980

Edited by Robrecht Declercq, Duncan Money, and Hans Otto Frøland
Categories: Environmental & Nature Studies, Environmental History, History, Business, Economics & Industry, Industry, Natural Resources, World History, Economics
Publisher: UBC Press
Hardcover : 9780774864855, 368 pages, November 2022
Ebook (PDF) : 9780774864954, 368 pages, November 2022
Ebook (EPUB) : 9780774865050, 368 pages, November 2022
Paperback : 9780774864862, 368 pages, November 2023

Table of contents

Introduction: Worlds of Copper? / Robrecht Declercq, Hans Otto Frøland, and Duncan Money

Part 1: Connections, Technologies, People: Creating the Global Fabric of Copper

1 The Gains of Going Global: The Return on Investment in International Copper Mining during the Second Industrial Revolution / Klas Rönnbäck, Oskar Broberg, and Dimitrios Theodoridis

2 Futures Markets as Trustbusters: The Secrétan Copper Cartel and the London Metal Exchange, 1887–89 / Nathan Delaney

3 American Mining Engineers and the Global Copper Industry, 1880–1945 / Duncan Money

4 The Path to Dominance: American Copper Mining, 1880–1916 / Jeremy Mouat

5 Comparing Copper Nationalism in Zambia and Papua New Guinea, 1964–74 / Ingeborg Guldal and Frida Brende Jenssen

Part 2: Grounding Copper: Communities and Socio-Ecological Transformations

6 Copper Mining in Cuba at the Beginning of Mining Internationalization, 1829–70 / Ángel Pascual Martínez-Soto, Miguel Á. Pérez de Perceval, and Susana Martínez-Rodríguez

7 Copper Communities on the Central African Copperbelt, 1950–2000 / Iva Peša

8 Confronting Kennecott: The Lost City of Bingham Canyon and the History of Mining-Induced Resettlement / Brian James Leech

9 Global and Local Interactions: The Great War, Global Trade, and Community Impacts in the Australian Copper Mining Industry, 1900–20 / Erik Eklund

Part 3: Haves and Have-Nots: Copper in the Age of National Control

10 The Copper Industry as National Enterprise in Modern Japan / Patricia Sippel

11 Katanga and the American World of Copper: Mechanization, Vertical Integration, and the Territorialization of Colonial Capitalism, 1900–30 / Robrecht Declercq

12 The Establishment of Iran’s Copper Mining Industry: The Downfall of Anaconda and Selection Trust in the 1960s–70s / Abdolreza Alamdar and Ali A. Saeidi

13 Copper in Chile: From the New Deal to Full Concessions, 1955–81 / Ángel Soto and Alejandro San Francisco

14 Producer Cartel, International Commodity Agreement, and the Role of the US Government Copper Stockpile / Hans Otto Frøland

Index

Description

Over the past two centuries, industrial societies have demanded ever-increasing quantities of copper – essential for light, power, and communication. Born with a Copper Spoon examines how the metal has been produced and distributed around the globe. Large-scale production has affected ecologies, states, and companies, while creating and even destroying local communities dependent on volatile commodity markets. Kenneth Kaunda once remarked that Zambians were “born with a copper spoon in our mouths,” but few societies managed to profit from copper’s abundance. From copper cartels to the consequences of resource nationalism, Born with a Copper Spoon delivers a global perspective on one of the world’s most important metals.