Search Results - "copper"

European metals in native hands rethinking the dynamics of technological change, 1640-1683 / by Ehrhardt, Kathleen L., 1948-

Table of Contents: “…Native technologies, European contact, and the processes and meanings of material change -- Setting aside the "standard view" : revealing "style" and change in technological systems -- Recovering Illinois copper-base metalworking style : the analytical program -- Indigenous copper working in the midcontinent : situating Illinois copper-base metal use in late protohistory -- Lost sheep-- in the jaws of the wolf : the mid-seventeenth-century Illinois in ethnohistorical and archaeological perspective -- From kettle sheet to ornament : artifact forms, production, and use -- Finding "style" beneath the surface : artifact composition and manufacturing history -- Illinois metalworking style in contexts of social action and technological change.…”
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An uncommon man the life & times of Senator Claiborne Pell / by Miller, G. Wayne

Table of Contents: “…Prologue : A cold winter day -- The most unlikely candidate -- Only child -- Land and sea -- Vision -- History making -- Heart and soul -- Foreign relations -- Life after -- Epilogue : The shade of a copper beech.…”
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Miskwabik, metal of ritual : metallurgy in precontact Eastern North America / by Trevelyan, Amelia M.

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The Irish in the Atlantic world

Table of Contents: “…Gleeson -- Mathewite temperance in Atlantic perspective / Paul Townend -- The anatomy of failure : nineteenth-century Irish copper mining in the Atlantic and global economy / William H. …”
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