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..., May 12, 1919, 1919 Documental 0127. 102 Cananea Consolidated Copper Co., S.A., “Aviso a Nuestros Empleados y Operarios,” El Superintendente General T. Evans, Mar. 28, 1919, AHS-CP, MS 1032, box 5. 101 Aviso, “Conferencia entre el Sr. Adolfo de la Huerta y el Gerente Gral. de la compañía...

...Susan M. Deeds The situation changed in the late eighteenth century after Spain’s growing involvement in foreign wars increased the demand for copper. The crown created a monopoly on distribution to increase its reserves, but only after they ended the asiento in 1787 and set the price high...

..., mobilizing capital, environmental technology, and the power of the state to challenge the rising hegemony of US interests in Peru's copper corridor. Unlike the classic literature on nineteenth-century mining in Peru, which has presented Peruvian mineowners as a struggling bourgeoisie, this study focuses...

...Richard Weinert Expropriation of U.S. Property in South America: Nationalization of Oil and Copper Companies in Peru, Bolivia, and Chile . By Ingram George M. . New York , 1974 . Praeger Publishers . Tables. Bibliography . Pp. xx , 392 . Copyright 1976 by Duke University Press...

...Ronald H. Chilcote Multinational Corporations and the Politics of Dependence: Copper in Chile . By Moran Theodore H. . Princeton, New Jersey , 1974 . Princeton University Press . Tables. Diagrams. Appendices. Bibliography. Index . Pp. xiv , 286 . Cloth. $12.50 . Copyright...

... united in opposition to the company. At one level, this is an inspired social and labor history that depicts conflicts around the U.S.-owned Braden Copper Company’s efforts to discipline its workers at the El Teniente copper mine. In response to an increased world demand for copper after World War I...

... by Duke University Press 2013 Joaquín Fermandois, Jimena Bustos, and María José Schneuer offer a compelling account of the ways in which politicians understood and discussed the role of the large- scale and foreign- owned copper industry in Chile from the end of World War II to 2008. In analyzing...

... is a critical economic and statistical analysis of the copper industry in Chile with emphasis on the period 1940-1961. Professor Mario Vera Valenzuela, assembling and interpreting a wealth of statistical data, shows the relationship between copper and the Chilean economy and evaluates the copper policies...

..., adding to what can be known about the quantities of metals moving from Chile to Argentina between 1800 and 1840. Land exports of copper to the east predominated during the study period prior to 1820. During the postindependence decades, maritime exports boomed and land exports dropped to almost nothing...

... entirely of silver, copper and gold; in fact slight additional impurities are always present. From these two results a weighted silver result was calculated by averaging the howitzer result plus twice the streak result, to an accuracy of about ± 1.3%. The percentages of copper and of gold were calculated...

..., where the evergreen woodland of Central Chile fades into monte, puna , and desert. The region’s southern end supports grazing and marginal agricultural activities, but the area as a whole is famous for its gold, silver, copper, and (recently) iron mines. Originally settled to aid communication...

... mines working the high-grade ore that provided the foundation of Chile’s booming copper export economy. By the 1850s, the Norte Chico had made Chile the world’s largest producer of copper; earnings from mineral exports constituted over one-half of Chile’s foreign revenues. Isolated from the hubs...

...Steven S. Volk Copyright 1993 by Duke University Press 1993 T he 1820s opened a period of nearly 50 years of expansion of mining in Chile. During that decade, Chile’s mines produced a yearly average of 2.7 million kilograms of bar copper. Production increased by nearly 70 percent over...

... Economy . Professor Mamalakis’ study, “Public Policy and Sectoral Development: a Case Study of Chile 1940-1958,” is the more technical, involving considerable mathematical speculation. Professor Reynolds’, “Development Problems of an Export Economy: the Case of Chile and Copper,” also is a detailed...

... period. Next she explored international trade, with a particular interest in the exchange between Valparaíso and Philadelphia. The current study builds on past work, but with a considerably expanded scope. In La exportación minera , Méndez examines the impact on regional development of copper, silver...

.... The second was a more general conflict that pitted almost every important economic sector against Balmaceda except for the mining interests of the Norte Chico. Indeed, Zeitlin argues that both rebellions of 1850 and 1891 involved the same elements: the silver and copper miners, united by common economic...

.... In perhaps the most dynamic of the essays, Covarrubias delves into the papers of various ministries and suggests that a “syndrome of imaginary money” pushed the colonial government to mint copper coins, but the need for informal monetary instruments in daily circulation for petty commerce persisted...

... Chilean exports to Philadelphia: copper, silver, gold, and money. Together, these made up 82.3 percent of goods, followed distantly by skins, hides, especies (seeds, exotic plants), and “various.” Obviously, exporters from Chile knew their market and concentrated on universal staples (such as copper...

... and Vergara raise similar themes integrating state and locality in their study of El Salvador, Chile, a copper-mining town established with the goal of managing a restive work force. Despite these efforts at control, copper workers wrung major concessions from the US-based Anaconda copper company between 1960...