1st Edition
The Mines of Tharsis Roman, French and British Enterprise in Spain
1.The Story in Outline 2. The Problems Set by Nature Part 1: Tartessians, Romans and Frenchmen 3. The Mystery of Tartessos 4. The roman Mining Colony 5. The Thousand Year Abandonment: The Cornish Cooper Monopoly 6. Ernest Deligny: The Rediscoverer Rejected 7. The French Company and its Struggles, 1855-1880 Part 2: Prosperity Under Victoria and Edward 8. Sulphur and the New European Chemical Complex 9. Sir Charles Tennant, the High Victorian Entrepreneur 10. The British Company, 1866-1870: Formation and Programme 11. The Great Rival: Rio Tinto, 1873 12. Tharsis and the World Economy: Copper and Sulphur 14. Tharsis as an Enterprise, 1870-1900 15. Life in the Mining Villages, 1866-1914 16. The Search for New Mines: The Turn Inward, 1895-1914 Part 3: A Pyrites Mine in an Unsettled World 17. Production and the Fight for Markets, 1914-1936 18. Labour and Politics: Dictatorship and the Second World Republic 19. Civil War 20. The Years of Frustration, 1939-1963 21. Revolution in the Sulphur Market: The Prospects for Pyrites 22. Mining Within the Spanish National Economy 23. The End of an Era: The Fourth Reorganization 24. Three Themes
Biography
S. G. Checkland (1916-1986)
Original Review of The Mines of Tharsis:
‘Professor Checkland has presented a well-documented history of a great mining company.’ Journal of the South African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, November 1967.
