Mining Tycoons in the Age of Empire, 1870-1945. Entrepreneurship, high finance, politics and territorial expansion
Details:
- Author(s) Dumett, Raymond E (ed)
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 2009
- Pages 255pp; illus
- Publisher Ashgate Publishing
- Place Published Farnham
Topics:
- Name Geopolitical event, natural disaster, etc, impact on business inc end of empire, war, disease, catastrophe, etc, exc industrial conflict
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Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Notes:
Collected scholarly essays. For relevant essays see individual BHE entries. Each provides a biographical profile of a particular personality, focused on entrepreneurial, investment and/or engineering activity and examining their business interests, the technologies they employed and the political context in which they operated. Also deals with their long lasting impact on the countries in which they operated. The subject is approached through a broad perspective of economic, business, colonial, social, etc, history