Copper Town: Changing Africa
Author | : Hortense Powdermaker |
Publisher | : Greenwood |
Total Pages | : 432 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Hortense Powdermaker |
Publisher | : Greenwood |
Total Pages | : 432 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Derek Sailors |
Publisher | : Xlibris Corporation |
Total Pages | : 301 |
Release | : 2008-10-24 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1453594612 |
Author Derek Sailors pens an intriguing tale set in boomtown Jerome, Arizona, in the early twentieth century. Designed to entertain the reader, A Copper Town Summer combines elements of the supernatural with history in order to create this interesting tale. A malodorous smell emanates from a lonely graveyard as a small orb hovers over the grave site of the Slavic miner Goran Divanevic. Through his presence, Goran’s tale is later told. Like other immigrants who settled in the small copper-mining town of Jerome at the turn of the century, Goran found steady work in one of the town’s prosperous mines. The heart of the tale lies in the murder of Janie Bailey, a lady of the evening who was last seen leaving the saloon with Goran. Later the next morning, Goran finds himself in a pool of vomit and urine, awakened by a kick to the stomach. With a rope tied around him, he is dragged through town and lynched. Using flashback, A Copper Town Summer follows the events in the town after Janie’s murder to spin a riveting tale guaranteed to draw the reader in from the opening page.
Author | : Patrick F. Morris |
Publisher | : Swann Publishing |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780965720922 |
Author | : Mary Doria Russell |
Publisher | : Atria Books |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2019-08-06 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1982109580 |
From the bestselling and award-winning author of The Sparrow comes an inspiring historical novel about “America’s Joan of Arc” Annie Clements—the courageous woman who started a rebellion by leading a strike against the largest copper mining company in the world. In July 1913, twenty-five-year-old Annie Clements had seen enough of the world to know that it was unfair. She’s spent her whole life in the copper-mining town of Calumet, Michigan where men risk their lives for meager salaries—and had barely enough to put food on the table and clothes on their backs. The women labor in the houses of the elite, and send their husbands and sons deep underground each day, dreading the fateful call of the company man telling them their loved ones aren’t coming home. When Annie decides to stand up for herself, and the entire town of Calumet, nearly everyone believes she may have taken on more than she is prepared to handle. In Annie’s hands lie the miners’ fortunes and their health, her husband’s wrath over her growing independence, and her own reputation as she faces the threat of prison and discovers a forbidden love. On her fierce quest for justice, Annie will discover just how much she is willing to sacrifice for her own independence and the families of Calumet. From one of the most versatile writers in contemporary fiction, this novel is an authentic and moving historical portrait of the lives of the men and women of the early 20th century labor movement, and of a turbulent, violent political landscape that may feel startlingly relevant to today.
Author | : Jane B. Schuldberg |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Kennett (Calif.) |
ISBN | : 9780970892294 |
Bernhard "Ben" and Rosa Golinsky are the white founders of Kennett, northern California, which became the world's 9th largest copper producing region. The area was an economic boom to Shasta County and an environmental disaster to farming. As the author describes the build up of the town and the lives of its citizens, she takes the reader to the its demise. "Kennett: The Short Colorful Life of a California Copper Town" by Jane B. Shuldberg is a historical narrative that documents with 51 photos and maps a town that does not exist.
Author | : Henry Hobart |
Publisher | : Wayne State University Press |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780814323427 |
Hobart centered his narrative on Cliff Mine, one of the leading producers of copper in the world and the primary employer in the town of Clifton.
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1060 |
Release | : 1914 |
Genre | : Copper mines and mining |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Jay Faerber |
Publisher | : Image Comics |
Total Pages | : 124 |
Release | : 2017-08-30 |
Genre | : Comics & Graphic Novels |
ISBN | : 1534306056 |
A man from Sheriff Clara Bronson's past shows up in Copperhead, complicating her efforts to solve the bizarre murder of Copperhead's mayor. Meanwhile, Deputy Boo is made an offer he canÍt refuse. Collects COPPERHEAD #11-14
Author | : Hyden Munene |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2022-01-31 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1538146436 |
Copper King in Central Africa offers a detailed account of the corporate history of the Rhokana/Rokana Corporation and its Nkana mine. Thematically and chronologically organised, it explores the discovery of viable ores on the Northern Rhodesian/Zambian Copperbelt in the late 1920s, which attracted foreign capital from South Africa, Britain and the USA, prompting the development of the Nkana mine and the formation of the Rhokana Corporation in the early 1930s. It follows through the evolution of the copper mining industry up to the re-privatisation of the Zambian mining sector in 1991. The book ties into a single narrative the disparate themes of corporate organisation, labour relations, and profitability of Rhokana, demonstrating how the firm was, for a time, the most important mining entity in the Northern Rhodesian/Zambian mining industry. Rhokana was both an investment firm on the Copperbelt and a mining company through Nkana mine. Thus, the Corporation was central to the development and profitability of the copper industry in Zambia. Its corporate and labour policies influenced the Copperbelt as a whole. Employing the largest labour force in the mining sector, Rhokana spearheaded the labour movement on the Copperbelt. Its Nkana mine was also the largest producer of copper in the Northern Rhodesian mining industry between 1940 and 1953, and contributed hugely to the war economies of Britain and the USA. Throughout its history, Nkana was also a major source of cobalt. After nationalisation of the mining sector in 1970, Rhokana surrendered its investments in the wider copper industry, but remained central to the Copperbelt’s smelting and refining operations, owning the biggest metallurgical facilities in the industry.
Author | : Writers Project of Montana |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 2023-12-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1493082175 |
Copper Camp is a Montana classic. First published in 1943 and long out of print, Copper Camp is available again, bigger and better than ever with 25 new historical photos chosen specifically for this edition. Copper Camp contains hundreds of brawling, bawdy, over-the-top, laugh-out-loud stories about Butte during the height of the copper mining in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Each story is told with keen wit, love, and appreciation for the world’s greatest copper camp and the people who lived, loved, played, and worked there. Writers for the Works Projects Administration compiled the stories. Their aim was to reveal “the wealth of human interest held within the folds of the ‘richest hill on earth.’ Instead of the Copper Kings, here are the kids and characters, ministers, miners, mothers, girls from the line, bankers, and barkeeps. Of such stuff as strikes, parades, politics and people – above all, of rawboned, lively, honest-to-God people – is a mining camp composed; and Butte, in the opinion of many experts, if THE mining camp. Copper Camp has been described as “a roaring human document that is as strong, and important as the town of Butte, Montana.” If you want to understand Butte, then read this book. If you want to experience the sheer joy of a wonderful book that takes you to a totally different time and place, then Copper Camp is for you, too.