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Mining in World History (Globalities)
Martin Lynch
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| #1365828 in Books | Reaktion Books | 2004-10-03 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.00 x1.10 x5.25l,1.00 | File type: PDF | 350 pages | ||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Five Stars|By richard fuller|great book|2 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| Excellent review of mining's role in the Western world's history.|By Paul C. Jones|Mining in World History is a good account of how minerals and their development and use advanced the history of the Western World. The author's background||'This is quite simply the best history ever published on the role of mining in shaping world events. It performs the huge task of making sense of a complex range of industries that took many forms and produced many products, over centuries of change and develo
This book deals with the history of mining and smelting from the Renaissance to the present. Martin Lynch opens with the invention, sometime before 1453, of a revolutionary technique for separating silver from copper. It was this invention which brought back to life the rich copper-silver mines of central Europe, in the process making brass cannon and silver coin available to the ambitious Habsburg emperors, thereby underpinning their quest for European domination. ...
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