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