King Copper: South Wales and the Copper Trade 1584-1895
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For the whole of the eighteenth century and much of the nineteenth, a belt of coastal smelters--using local coals and ores from Cornwall, Cuba, and Chile--produced virtually all of Britain's copper, and much of the world's. Copper brought considerable wealth to Swansea, the center of the industry, and to several neighboring towns. But there was a price for the prosperity. The billowing clouds of toxic, foul-smelling smoke that copper production...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0708324916
ISBN13:9780708324912
Release Date:April 2012
Publisher:University of Wales Press
Length:179 Pages
Weight:0.75 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"
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