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King Copper - South Wales and the Copper Trade 1584-1895 — South Wales and the Copper Trade 1584-1895
King Copper - South Wales and the Copper Trade 1584-1895 — South Wales and the Copper Trade 1584-1895
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Disgrifiad Cymraeg / Welsh Description
Astudiaeth arloesol a hawdd ei darllen o hanes twf a dirywiad y diwydiant copr yn ne Cymru o'r unfed ganrif ar bymtheg hyd y bedwaredd ganrif ar bymtheg. Argraffiad newydd.
Disgrifiad Saesneg / English Description
A pioneering and easy-to-read study of the history of the rise and fall of the copper trade in south Wales from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries. New edition.
Manylion y cynnyrch / Product details
- ISBN 13
- 9780708324912
- Gwales Code
- gwales.com.9780708324912
- Gwerthwr / Vendor
- Cyngor Llyfrau Cymru
- Long Title
- King Copper - South Wales and the Copper Trade 1584-1895 — South Wales and the Copper Trade 1584-1895
- Sub Title
- South Wales and the Copper Trade 1584-1895
- Awdur / Author
- Rees, Ronald
- Current Price ex VAT
- £19.99
- Current Price inc VAT
- £19.99
- Availability Status (EN)
- Available
- Availability Status (CY)
- Ar gael
- Dyddiad cyhoeddi / Publication Date
- 2012-02-15
- Cyhoeddwr / Publisher
- Gwasg Prifysgol Cymru / University of Wales Press
- Media Type (EN)
- Paperback / softback
- Media Type (CY)
- Clawr meddal
- Pages
- 184 pages
- Size
- 156 × 234 mm
- Language Code
- English
- Categori / Category
- CY: Hanes, Hanes Lleol, Arferion Gwlad, Llên Gwerin (yn Saesneg) | EN: History, Welsh Life and Customs, Local History, Folk Tales (in English)
- Is-gategori / Subcategory
- CY: 1536-1800 (yn Saesneg) | EN: 1536-1800 (in English)
Bywgraffiad yr Awdur / Author Biography
Ronald Rees is a retired Professor of Geography at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada.
Adolygiad y Cyhoeddwr / Publisher Review
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 world's too. 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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