LEADER 02525oam 2200481I 450 001 9910154564803321 005 20230808200738.0 010 $a1-138-27537-9 010 $a1-315-24886-7 024 7 $a10.4324/9781315248868 035 $a(CKB)3710000000966003 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4758255 035 $a(OCoLC)965543002 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000966003 100 $a20180706e20162009 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 00$aMining tycoons in the age of empire, 1870-1945 $eentrepreneurship, high finance, politics and territorial expansion /$fedited by Raymond E. Dumett 210 1$aAbingdon, Oxon :$cRoutledge,$d2016. 215 $a1 online resource (276 pages) $cillustrations, maps 225 1 $aModern Economic and Social History Series 300 $aFirst published 2009 by Ashgate Publishing. 311 $a0-7546-6303-5 311 $a1-351-91733-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and indexes. 327 $a1. The rise and fall of Horace Tabor, "Colorado's silver king" / Duane A. Smith -- 2. Edwin Cade and Frederick Gordon : British imperialism and the foundations of the Ashanti Goldfields Corporation, West Africa / Raymond E. Dumett -- 3. Cecil Rhodes, De Beers and mining finance in South Africa : the business of entrepreneurship and imperialism / Colin Newbury -- 4. John T. North, the nitrate king, and Chile's lost future / Michael Monteon -- 5. Whitaker Wright, speculative finance, and the London mining boom of the 1890s / Jeremy Mouat -- 6. Frank Morrill Murphy, 1854-1917 : mining and railroad mogul and developer of the American Southwest / Robert L. Spude -- 7. Claude Albo de Bernales : 'wizard' of Australia's golden west / Melville Davies -- 8. Copper kings of the Americas : the Guggenheim brothers / Thomas O'Brien -- 9. Alfred Chester Beatty : mining, engineer, financier, and entrepreneur, 1898-1950 / John Phillips. 410 0$aModern economic and social history series. 606 $aMineral industries$xHistory 606 $aCapitalists and financiers$vBiography 615 0$aMineral industries$xHistory. 615 0$aCapitalists and financiers 676 $a338.7/6220922 701 $aDumett$b Raymond E$0244875 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910154564803321 996 $aMining tycoons in the age of empire, 1870-1945$92110137 997 $aUNINA