Ferrum: Raw Materials. Natural Resources in History

Articles: - Approaches to raw matrials throughout history: strategies of resource use - Poor, useful, poisonous or promising? - The copper trade around 1600 - Zinc for coin and brass - Technological uses of chicken's eggs in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries - Investigating global resource chains: the case of the global Danish plant oil complex - The conflict over caoutchouc in the interwar period - Petroleum as a fuel in the Russian Empire - Recycling Scrap for Steelmaking: the case of the Danish Steel Rolling Mill - The working horse's utility in the first half of the twentieth century - Landscape rehabilitation research and methods in the Lusatian lignite mining district - How do you define a resource? - Raw materials tell a story - The stuff of literature