ISBN |
0754663035 (hbk.) |
9780754663034 (hbk.) |
Title |
Mining tycoons in the age of empire, 1870-1945 : entrepreneurship, high finance, politics and territorial expansion / edited by Raymond E. Dumett |
Publisher |
Farnham, UK ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, 2009 |
Physical desc. |
xiii, 255 p. ; ports., maps ; 24 cm. |
Series |
Modern economic and social history series |
Note |
References to, and entire chapter on, ACB. |
Bibliography etc. |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
Contents |
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. |
Person as subject |
Beatty, Alfred Chester -- Sir -- 1875-1968 |
Corporate name |
Selection Trust Ltd |
Subject |
Mineral industries -- History |
Capitalists and financiers -- Biography |
Added name(s) |
Dumett, Raymond E. ed. |