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Mining Tycoons in the Age of Empire, 1870-1945 - Entrepreneurship, High Finance, Politics and Territorial Expansion (Paperback)
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Mining Tycoons in the Age of Empire, 1870-1945 - Entrepreneurship, High Finance, Politics and Territorial Expansion (Paperback)
Series: Modern Economic and Social History
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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,
untrammled 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 with the thousands of prospectors, diggers, shift bosses,
timbermen, 'blastmen' and 'muckers' in mining enterprise
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.
Each chapter is loosely focussed on a biographical account of a
particular mining tycoon that allows for broad and comparative
accounts to be made about the individuals, their business
interests, the technologies they employed and the national and
international political considerations under which they operated.
Furthermore, this structure also allows for consideration of the
effect that these tycoons had on the countries and territories in
which they worked, particularly the often long-lasting impact on
indigenous populations, the environment, transport links and
economic development. By approaching the subject matter through
this stimulating mix of cultural, social, economic, business and
colonial history, many intriguing and thought provoking conclusions
are reached that will reward any scholars with an interest late
nineteenth and early twentieth century history.
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