Mining tycoons in the age of empire, 1870 - 1945 entrepreneurship, high finance, politics and territorial expansion

The rise and fall of Horace Tabor, Colorado's silver king / Duane Smith -- Edwin A. Cade and Frederick Gordon : British imperialism and the foundations of the Ashanti Goldfields Corporation / Raymond Dumett -- Cecil Rhodes, De Beers and mining finance in South Africa : the business of entrepren...

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Weitere Verfasser: Dumett, Raymond E. (HerausgeberIn)
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Veröffentlicht: Farnham, Surrey u.a. Ashgate 2009
Schriftenreihe:Modern economic and social history series
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Zusammenfassung:The rise and fall of Horace Tabor, Colorado's silver king / Duane Smith -- Edwin A. Cade and Frederick Gordon : British imperialism and the foundations of the Ashanti Goldfields Corporation / Raymond 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 -- Whittaker Wright, speculative finance and the London mining boom of the 1890s / Jeremy Mouatt -- Frank Murphy, mining promoter and developer of the American Southwest / Robert Spude -- Claude De Bernales, wizard of Australia's golden west / Mel Davies -- Copper kings of the Americas--the Guggenheim brothers / Thomas O'Brien -- Chester Beatty, global mining financier and entrepreneur / John Phillips
Beschreibung:Enth. 9 Beitr
Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-243) and index
Beschreibung:XIII, 255 S.
Ill., graph. Darst., Kt.
24cm
ISBN:9780754663034
978-0-7546-6303-4
0754663035
0-7546-6303-5