Bulls, Bears, Boers and Brits

Finance and the Coming of War in Southern Africa, 1894-1899

Ian Phimister (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

190 Seiten

2025
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-69078-3 (ISBN)

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A new interpretation of Southern African gold mining history in the 1890s. Profits secured by production were dwarfed by sums won through financial speculation and market manipulation.

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 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.

Ian Phimister is Senior University Research Professor at the University of the Free State. He has published widely on patterns of British overseas investment, and on the history of Central Africa, including An Economic and Social History of Zimbabwe, 1890-1948 (Longman 1988).

Acknowledgements

List of Figures and Tables

1 Introduction

2 Historiography

3 Boom, 1894–1895

4 Bust, 1896–1899

5 Conclusion

Appendix A. Witwatersrand Gold Production 1888–1893

Appendix B. Witwatersrand Share Prices: 1889 Peak And 1890 Slump

Appendix C. Selected Rand And Rhodesian Share Prices, December
1894 – December 1895

Appendix D. Witwatersrand Yields, Working Costs, And Dividends,
1887–1899

Appendix E. Flotations: Southern African Mining, Land And Exploration Companies, 1895

Mining

Land and Finance Companies

Miscellaneous Companies

Appendix F. Control: Southern African Gold Mining Groups,
1896–1897

Bibliography

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	05.03.2025
Reihe/Serie	Afrika-Studiecentrum Series ; 44
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	1 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Technik ► Bergbau
ISBN-10	90-04-69078-6 / 9004690786
ISBN-13	978-90-04-69078-3 / 9789004690783
Zustand	Neuware