1. The rise and fall of Horace Tabor, "Colorado's silver king" / Duane A. Smith -- 2. Edwin Cade and Frederick Gordon : British imperialism and the foundations of the Ashanti Goldfields Corporation, West Africa / Raymond E. Dumett -- 3. Cecil Rhodes, De Beers and mining finance in South Africa : the business of entrepreneurship and imperialism / Colin Newbury -- 4. John T. North, the nitrate king, and Chile's lost future / Michael Monteon -- 5. Whitaker Wright, speculative finance, and the London mining boom of the 1890s / Jeremy Mouat -- 6. Frank Morrill Murphy, 1854-1917 : mining and railroad mogul and developer of the American Southwest / Robert L. Spude -- 7. Claude Albo de Bernales : 'wizard' of Australia's golden west / Melville Davies -- 8. Copper kings of the Americas : the Guggenheim brothers / Thomas O'Brien -- 9. Alfred Chester Beatty : mining, engineer, financier, and entrepreneur, 1898-1950 / John Phillips. |