Books by Ronald Rees

At a time when photography was still a new and developing technology, the "slow seconds" of George Thomas Taylor's camera offered arresting images of the New Brunswick wilderness. Today, Taylor's photographs illuminate landscapes, people, and the seismic changes that were transforming nineteenth-century New Brunswick.

This is a treatment of the impact of the copper industry upon society and environment in south Wales. For the 18th century and much of the 19th a belt of coastal smelters using local coals and ores from Cornwall, Cuba and Chile produced nearly all of Britain's and much of the world's copper.