In October the University of Arizona Press will publish Copper for
America: The United States Copper Industry from Colonial Times to the
19900s (300pp, ISBN 0-8165-1817-3, about $40 in hardback). Charles Hyde
will be familiar to many of you as the author of the classic Technological
Change and the British Iron Industry, 1700-1870 (Princeton., 1977). The
publishers blurb for the copper volume is as follows:
The first inclusive account of U.S. copper in one volume, Copper for
America relates the discovery and development of America's major
copper-producing areas .......Starting with the predominance of New
England and the Middle Atlantic States in the early 19th century, Copper
for America traces the industry's migration to Michigan in mid-century and
to Montana, Arizona and other western states in the late nineteenth
century. The book also examines the US copper industry's decline in the
twentieth century, studying the effects of strong competition from foreign
copper industries and unforseen changes in the national and global copper
markets
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David J Killick
Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology
University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721-0030
Phone (520)621-8685; FAX 621-2088
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http://www.mse.arizona.edu/faculty/killick.html
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