| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 87.2

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Copper for America: The Unites States Copper Industry from Colonial Times to the 1990s. By Charles K. Hyde. (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1998. xviii, 267 pp. $40.00, isbn 0-8165-1817-3.)

The United States is blessed with some of the world's richest copper mining areas, including the unique native copper deposits of Michigan's Upper Peninsula, the fabulous oxide and sulfide deposits of the West (for example, Butte, Montana; Ely, Nevada; and Bisbee, Arizona), and smaller deposits scattered from Tennessee to Connecticut and New Jersey. American copper deposits were modestly exploited by Indians long before the arrival of Europeans, marginally developed by colonial powers such as England and Spain, and aggressively exploited by European Americans as the United States became a major industrial player on the world stage after about 1850. Copper for America employs a "regional approach" emphasizing developments in three major areas—Michigan, Montana, and Arizona. Within this framework, the American copper industry is covered chronologically over almost three centuries—from about the early 1700s to the late 1990s, with special emphasis on the rise of large copper companies in the electrical age (that is, post 1880). . . .

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