Robrecht Declercq is a senior postdoctoral researcher at Ghent University, Belgium, and the author of World Market Transformation: Inside the German Fur Capital Leipzig, 1870-1939. Duncan Money is a historian of central and southern Africa at Leiden University, the Netherlands. He is the author of White Mineworkers on Zambia's Copperbelt, 1926-1974: In a Class of Their Own. Hans Otto Frøland is a professor of European contemporary history at Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim. He is a co-editor of From Warfare to Welfare: Business-Government Relations in the Aluminium Industry and Industrial Collaboration in Nazi-Occupied Europe: Norway in Context.

Contributors: Abdolreza Alamdar, Oskar Broberg, Nathan Delaney, Erik Eklund, Ingeborg Guldal, Frida Brende Jenssen, Brian James Leech, Susana Martínez-Rodríguez, Ángel Pascual Martínez-Soto, Jeremy Mouat, Miguel Á. Pérez de Perceval, Iva Peša, Klas Rönnbäck, Ali A. Saeidi, Alejandro San Francisco, Patricia Sippel, Ángel Soto, Dimitrios Theodoridis

Introduction: Worlds of Copper? / Robrecht Declercq, Hans Otto Frøland, and Duncan Money

Part 1: Connections, Technologies, People: Creating the Global Fabric of Copper

1 The Gains of Going Global: The Return on Investment in International Copper Mining during the Second Industrial Revolution / Klas Rönnbäck, Oskar Broberg, and Dimitrios Theodoridis

2 Futures Markets as Trustbusters: The Secrétan Copper Cartel and the London Metal Exchange, 1887-89 / Nathan Delaney

3 American Mining Engineers and the Global Copper Industry, 1880-1945 / Duncan Money

4 The Path to Dominance: American Copper Mining, 1880-1916 / Jeremy Mouat

5 Comparing Copper Nationalism in Zambia and Papua New Guinea, 1964-74 / Ingeborg Guldal and Frida Brende Jenssen

Part 2: Grounding Copper: Communities and Socio-Ecological Transformations

6 Copper Mining in Cuba at the Beginning of Mining Internationalization, 1829-70 / Ángel Pascual Martínez-Soto, Miguel Á. Pérez de Perceval, and Susana Martínez-Rodríguez

7 Copper Communities on the Central African Copperbelt, 1950-2000 / Iva Peša

8 Confronting Kennecott: The Lost City of Bingham Canyon and the History of Mining-Induced Resettlement / Brian James Leech

9 Global and Local Interactions: The Great War, Global Trade, and Community Impacts in the Australian Copper Mining Industry, 1900-20 / Erik Eklund

Part 3: Haves and Have-Nots: Copper in the Age of National Control

10 The Copper Industry as National Enterprise in Modern Japan / Patricia Sippel

11 Katanga and the American World of Copper: Mechanization, Vertical Integration, and the Territorialization of Colonial Capitalism, 1900-30 / Robrecht Declercq

12 The Establishment of Iran's Copper Mining Industry: The Downfall of Anaconda and Selection Trust in the 1960s-70s / Abdolreza Alamdar and Ali A. Saeidi

13 Copper in Chile: From the New Deal to Full Concessions, 1955-81 / Ángel Soto and Alejandro San Francisco

14 Producer Cartel, International Commodity Agreement, and the Role of the US Government Copper Stockpile / Hans Otto Frøland

Index