Mining Tycoons in the Age of Empire, 1870-1945 (eBook, PDF)

Entrepreneurship, High Finance, Politics and Territorial Expansion
Redaktion: Dumett, Raymond E.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The years of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, aptly described by Mark Twain as the 'Gilded Age' witnessed an unprecedented level of technological change, material excess, untrammeled pursuit of profit and imperial expansion. Within this dynamic and often ruthless environment many colorful characters strode across the world stage, among them the great mining tycoons, who constituted one of the major spearheads of global capitalistic expansion and colonial exploitation. This volume, which carries the epic story to the mid-twentieth century, provides a truly international perspective on the role of mining entrepreneurs, investors and engineers in shaping the economic and political map of the globe, in testing management techniques and in setting a vogue for extravagant displays of wealth among the world's rich.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 276
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Dezember 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351917339
• Artikelnr.: 49365863

Autorenporträt

Raymond E. Dumett is a Professor in the Department of History at Purdue University, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction
Raymond E. Dumett; The rise and fall of Horace Tabor
'Colorado's silver king'
Duane A. Smith; Edwin Cade and Frederick Gordon: British imperialism and the foundations of the Ashanti Goldfields Corporation
West Africa
Raymond E. Dumett; Cecil Rhodes
De Beers and mining finance in South Africa: the business of entrepreneurship and imperialism
Colin Newbury; John T. North
the nitrate king and Chile's lost future
Michael Monteon; Whitaker Wright
speculative finance and the London mining boom of the 1890s
Jeremy Mouat; Frank Morrill Murphy
1854-1917: mining and railroad mogul and developer of the American Southwest
Robert L. Spude; Claude Albo de Bernales - wizard of Australia's golden West
Melville Davies; Copper kings of the Americas - the Guggenheim brothers
Thomas O'Brien; Alfred Chester Beatty: mining engineer
financier and entrepreneur
1898-1950
John Phillips; Select bibliography; Indexes.