Gold, finance and imperialism in South Africa, 1887-1902: a view from the stock exchange

Identifying the JSE as the nexus between international finance, South African gold mining and British imperialism, the book exposes the financial and political connections between Johannesburg, Pretoria, London, and Paris during the final stage of the imperial ‘scramble for southern Africa.’ Gold mi...

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1. Verfasser: Lukasiewicz, Mariusz (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Cham, Switzerland Palgrave Macmillan [2024]
Schriftenreihe:Cambridge imperial and post-colonial studies
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Online-Zugang:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-51947-5
Zusammenfassung:Identifying the JSE as the nexus between international finance, South African gold mining and British imperialism, the book exposes the financial and political connections between Johannesburg, Pretoria, London, and Paris during the final stage of the imperial ‘scramble for southern Africa.’ Gold mining presented the South African Republic (ZAR) and the whole southern African regional economy with a long-term economic future and new prospects of industrialisation. However, this socio-economic transformation was dependent on extensive capital investments and the institutionalisation of a coercive labour regime based on racial discrimination. This monograph provides the first empirical examination of how international finance, imperial politics, and racialised industrial relations became entrenched in a key financial intermediary in colonial South Africa - first in Kimberley in the Cape Colony, and then in Johannesburg in the ZAR.
Beschreibung:xxxi, 242 Seiten Illustrationen
ISBN:9783031519468
DOI:10.1007/978-3-031-51947-5

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