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

edited by Raymond E. Dumett

1. The rise and fall of Horace Tabor, "Colorado's silver king" / Duane A. Smith -- 2. Edwin Cade and Frederick Gordon : British imperialism and the foundations of the Ashanti Goldfields Corporation, West Africa / Raymond E. Dumett -- 3. Cecil Rhodes, De Beers and mining finance in South Africa : the business of entrepreneurship and imperialism / Colin Newbury -- 4. John T. North, the nitrate king, and Chile's lost future / Michael Monteon -- 5. Whitaker Wright, speculative finance, and the London mining boom of the 1890s / Jeremy Mouat -- 6. Frank Morrill Murphy, 1854-1917 : mining and railroad mogul and developer of the American Southwest / Robert L. Spude -- 7. Claude Albo de Bernales : 'wizard' of Australia's golden west / Melville Davies -- 8. Copper kings of the Americas : the Guggenheim brothers / Thomas O'Brien -- 9. Alfred Chester Beatty : mining, engineer, financier, and entrepreneur, 1898-1950 / John Phillips.

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Year of publication:	2016
Other Persons:	Dumett, Raymond E. (contributor)
Publisher:	Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge,
Subject:	Bergbau \| Mining \| Welt \| World \| Wirtschaftsgeschichte \| Economic history \| Multinationales Unternehmen \| Transnational corporation \| Bergbaupolitik \| Mineral policy \| Imperialismus \| Imperialism \| Finanzkapitalismus \| Financial capitalism

Extent:	1 online resource (xiii, 255 pages)
Series:	Modern economic and social history series
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
ISBN:	978-1-315-24886-8 ; 978-1-351-91731-5 ; 978-0-7546-6303-4 ; 978-1-138-27537-9
Other identifiers:	10.4324/9781315248868 [DOI]
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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