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King Copper - South Wales and the Copper Trade 1584-1895 (Paperback, 2nd New edition)
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King Copper - South Wales and the Copper Trade 1584-1895 (Paperback, 2nd New edition)
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List price R590
Loot Price R557
Discovery Miles 5 570
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King Copper is the first full treatment of the impact of the copper
industry upon society and environment in south Wales. 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
worlds. It was a remarkable industrial concentration that brought
wealth to Swansea, the centre of the industry, and to neighbouring
towns. But there was a price for prosperity. Copper ores are
notoriously impure and the many roastings and meltings required to
drive out the impurities and separate the metal from the ore
produced mountains of slag and furnace ash and billowing clouds of
toxic, foul-smelling smoke. Laced with sulphur and arsenic, the
smoke killed all but the hardiest plants, ruining crops and killing
and disabling grazing animals. This continual chafing of a farmed
and settled countryside set farmers against townsmen, the
Welsh-speaking Cymry Cymraeg against their Anglo-Welsh cousins in
the towns. The conflict culminated in a series of dramatic 'smoke'
trials in which farmers and landowners sued the copper companies
for damage to crops, grazing and stock. Seldom has the rural-urban
dichotomy been so exposed. The smoke disputes centred on damage to
property but they also raised questions about public health and the
loss of attractive and loved landscapes.
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