Bulls, Bears, Boers and Brits: Finance and the Coming of War in Southern Africa, 1894-1899 by Phimister, Ian

Bulls, Bears, Boers and Brits: Finance and the Coming of War in Southern Africa, 1894-1899 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9789004690783)

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Bulls, Bears, Boers and Brits: Finance and the Coming of War in Southern Africa, 1894-1899 by Phimister, Ian

Bulls, Bears, Boers and Brits: Finance and the Coming of War in Southern Africa, 1894-1899

$61.00
Bulls, Bears, Boers and Brits: Finance and the Coming of War in Southern Africa, 1894-1899 by Phimister, Ian

Bulls, Bears, Boers and Brits: Finance and the Coming of War in Southern Africa, 1894-1899

$61.00
Format: Paperback
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In the 1890s financial speculation and market manipulation were prominent features of the Southern African gold mining industry. Extravagantly capitalised, starved of working capital, and poorly managed, many mines could not be made to pay. Investors suffered more at the hands of Randlords than they did from those of the Boer Government in Pretoria.

By failing to take any of this into serious consideration, accounts that focus on mining company complaints as the root cause of the Jameson Raid and the outbreak of war in 1899 are missing a key dimension of the past.

Author: Ian Phimister
ISBN-10: 9004690786
ISBN-13: 9789004690783
Publisher: Brill
Language: English
Published: 01/23/2025
Pages: 200
Format: Paperback

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