Tin and global capitalism [electronic resource] : a history of the devil's metal, 1850-2000 / edited by Mats Ingulstad, Andrew Perchard, and Espen Storli.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Not by tin alone : the polymetallic content of primary tin production and Cornwall's role in the international mining industry / Roger Burt and Norikazu Kudo -- 2. Bankers, entrepreneurs, and Bolivian tin in the international economy, 1900-1932 / Oscar Granados -- 3. Summer's food for winter's tables : tin consumption in the Americas / Joel Wolfe -- 4. Banging the tin drum : the United States and the quest for strategic self-sufficiency in tin, 1840-1945 / Mats Ingulstad -- 5. Tin and the German war economy : scrap drives, blockade running, and war looting / Jonas Scherner -- 6. Tin, tin in the Congo : from imperial asset to conflict mineral / Alanna O'Malley -- 7. The trouble with tin : governments and businesses in decolonizing Malaya / Nicholas J. White -- 8. The birth of the world's largest tin merchant : Philipp brothers, Bolivian tin and American stockpiles / Espen Storli -- 9. Increasing developing countries' gains from tin mining : the boom years from the 1960s to 1985 / John T. Thoburn -- 10. "The strategic wolf hidden beneath the clothing of the economic sheep" : tin and the strategizing of raw materials / Andrew Perchard.