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

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