Mining Perspectives: Proceedings of the 8th
International Mining History Congress 2009
Edited by Peter Claughton and Catherine Mills
•Mining Perspectives is a peer reviewed edited
volume containing a selection of papers presented
at the Eighth International Mining History
Congress held in June 2009. The Congress is a
continuing series of triennial international
meetings that began in Australia in 1985, aiming
to bring together practitioners of mining history
across all disciplines, to exchange recent
research findings, and to consider how the
subject area might be developed to satisfy new interests and demands.
•The volume contains a selection of 22 primary
research based studies, subdivided into six
Section headings: Technology, Conflict and Labour
Relations, Mining Archaeology, Heritage and
Interpretation, Mining Personalities, Mineral
Exploitation and Mining Society. The individual
contributions are drawn from a variety of
academic disciplines, with a particular focus on
early career researchers, industry, the public
sector; heritage charities, independent scholars
and interested amateurs, and showcases
international and interdisciplinary knowledge exchange in action.
•The traditional strengths of economic,
technological and labour histories are combined
with new agendas in heritage and archaeological
interpretation of the post mining landscape; new
directions that will ensure that the historical
study of the extractive industries remains a
vibrant sub-discipline of history well into the 21st century.
•Published by Cornwall and West Devon Mining
Landscape World Heritage Site, Cornwall Council,
Truro (2011) ISBN 978-1-903798-77-5 •Price: £12.50 ($20) excluding postage
To order a copy contact Peter Claughton
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Humanities, Division of History and Politics,
University of Stirling, Stirling, Scotland, UK, FK9 4LA
A PDF flyer with full contents list is available
at http://people.exeter.ac.uk/pfclaugh/mhinf/Webflyer.pdf
Dr Peter Claughton,
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Mining History Pages - http://www.people.exeter.ac.uk/pfclaugh/mhinf/
Men put an end to darkness, and search out to the
farthest bound the ore in gloom and deep
darkness. They open shafts in a valley away from
where men live; they are forgotten by travellers,
they hang afar from men, they swing to and fro. - Job 28: 3-4
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