02525oam 2200481I 450 991015456480332120230808200738.01-138-27537-91-315-24886-710.4324/9781315248868 (CKB)3710000000966003(MiAaPQ)EBC4758255(OCoLC)965543002(EXLCZ)99371000000096600320180706e20162009 uy 0engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierMining tycoons in the age of empire, 1870-1945 entrepreneurship, high finance, politics and territorial expansion /edited by Raymond E. DumettAbingdon, Oxon :Routledge,2016.1 online resource (276 pages) illustrations, mapsModern Economic and Social History SeriesFirst published 2009 by Ashgate Publishing.0-7546-6303-5 1-351-91733-1 Includes bibliographical references and indexes.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.Modern economic and social history series.Mineral industriesHistoryCapitalists and financiersBiographyMineral industriesHistory.Capitalists and financiers338.7/6220922Dumett Raymond E244875MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910154564803321Mining tycoons in the age of empire, 1870-19452110137UNINA