Format:
1 Online-Ressource (366 pages)
ISBN:
9780774864954
Content:
Born with a Copper Spoon tells the fascinating and far-reaching story of one of the world's most important metals.
Content:
"Born with a Copper Spoon examines how the metal has been produced, distributed, controlled, and sold around the globe. Over the past two centuries, industrial societies hungry for the highly conductive, corrosion-resistant metal--essential for light, power, and communication--have demanded ever-increasing quantities of copper. From copper cartels and the futures market to the consequences of resource nationalism, Born with a Copper Spoon has a global scope. However, this is not simply a narrative of ever-increasing and deepening global connections, as global history often is. It is also about periods of deglobalization, fragmentation, and attempts to sever connections, as was the case in the mid-twentieth century, when a bitter contest over ownership of mineral resources briefly threatened to cause a major realignment of the world economy. Throughout history, copper production has spawned its own practices, technologies, and a constantly changing political economy. Large-scale production has affected ecologies, states, and companies, while creating and even destroying local communities dependent on volatile commodity markets. The first president of Zambia, 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. Contributors to this far-reaching collection cover the finance, technology, labour, business, politics, and environmental impact of what is one of the world's most important metals."--
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780774864855
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Conference, A Global History of Copper (2019 : Trondheim) Born with a copper spoon Vancouver : UBC Press, 2022 ISBN 9780774864855
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0774864850
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780774864862
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
Author information:
Declercq, Robrecht
Author information:
Frøland, Hans Otto 1958-
