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Author : Mariusz Lukasiewicz
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031519475
Author : Mariusz Lukasiewicz
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2024-04-22
Category : History
ISBN : 3031519469
This book provides a unique account of the financial and political history of the South African War by analysing the organisation and operations of the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE), the oldest existing stock exchange in the African continent. Identifying the JSE as the nexus between international finance, South African gold mining and British imperialism, the book exposes the financial and political connections between Johannesburg, Pretoria, London, and Paris during the final stage of the imperial ‘scramble for southern Africa.’ Gold mining presented the South African Republic (ZAR) and the whole southern African regional economy with a long-term economic future and new prospects of industrialisation. However, this socio-economic transformation was dependent on extensive capital investments and the institutionalisation of a coercive labour regime based on racial discrimination. This monograph provides the first empirical examination of how international finance, imperial politics, and racialised industrial relations became entrenched in a key financial intermediary in colonial South Africa - first in Kimberley in the Cape Colony, and then in Johannesburg in the ZAR. By studying the Johannesburg capital market’s social microstructures, the author demonstrates how colonial and international financial intermediaries underwrote and financed the largest wave of mining investments in Africa prior to the First World War. Filling an important gap in literature on nineteenth-century British imperialism and Anglo-African-Afrikaner relations, this insightful book uses the JSE as a lens to carefully expose the structures and agency of global finance in the outbreak of the South African War, and the making of South Africa as a unified colonial state.
Author : Alan Lester
Publisher : Hurst Publishers
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781805261438
The Truth About Empire comes from expert historians who believe that the truth, as far as we can ascertain it, matters; that our decades of painstaking research make us worth listening to; and that our authority as leading professionals should count for something in today’s polarised debates over Britain’s imperial past. Colonial history is now a battlefield in the culture war. The public’s understanding of past events is continually distorted by wilful caricatures. Communities that long struggled to get their voices heard have, in their fight to highlight the hidden horrors of colonialism, alienated many who prefer a celebratory national history. The backlash, orchestrated by elements of the media, has generated a new, concerted denial of imperial racism and violence in Britain’s past—a disinformation campaign sharing both tactics and motivations with those around Covid, Brexit and climate change. From Australia and China to South Africa and Egypt, this essay collection is an accessible guide to the British Empire, and a weapon of defence against the assault on historical truth. The disturbing stories told in these pages, of Empire’s culture, politics and economics, show why professional research matters, when deciding what can and cannot be known about Britain’s colonial history.
Author : Kay Saunders
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2018-03-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351120654
First published in 1984. Indentured labour migration in the nineteenth century intersects many of the most serious issues of our own time - racism, Third World poverty, and the arrogance of a great world powers. Indenture suggests lack of freedom and the exploitation of people formed into exile or misadventure. Coming as it did after the abolition of slavery in the British Empire in 1834, in many respects it can be regarded as a replacement of the slave labour system. Indeed, both concerned humanitarians and officials in the nineteenth century, and many historians subsequently have regarded indentured labour merely as 'a new system of slavery'. Many of the articles in this book address themselves to this assertion, whilst investigating the particular variations inherent in their geographic area. The differing patterns of Indian indenture in the West Indies and British Guiana, coming almost immediately after slavery, forms the first section of this book. Attention is given to the Indians engaged in the sugar industries in Mauritius and Fiji, and the rubber industry in Malaya. The use of Pacific Islanders in the Queensland industry is also examined, particularly in the sugar industry which, by the early twentieth century, contained the unique pattern of white, expensive, unionized labour. Other groups dealt with include the aboriginal workers in Australia and the Chinese workers in the Transvaal. Overall, this book is comprehensive and far-reaching in its scope and the complex issues which it raises.
Author : Various
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1568 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351028493
The volumes in this set, originally published between 1968 and 1989, draw together research by leading academics in the area of the British Empire and provides an examination of related key issues. The volumes examine slavery in the British Empire, problems encountered in India in the eighteenth and nineteenth century, as well as the Empire at its most powerful. This set will be of particular interest to students of British, colonial, and world history.
Author : R. Bright
Publisher : Springer
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137316578
This book explores the decision of the British Empire to import Chinese labour to southern Africa despite the already tense racial situation in the region. It enables a clearer understanding of racial and political developments in southern Africa during the reconstruction period and places localised issues within a wider historiography.
Author : Martin Meredith
Publisher : PublicAffairs
Page : 593 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2008-09-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781586486778
Southern Africa was once regarded as a worthless jumble of British colonies, Boer republics, and African chiefdoms, a troublesome region of little interest to the outside world. But then prospectors chanced upon the world's richest deposits of diamonds and gold, setting off a titanic struggle between the British and the Boers for control of the land. The result was the costliest, bloodiest, and most humiliating war that Britain had waged in nearly a century, and the devastation of the Boer republics. The New Yorker calls this magisterial account of those years “[an] astute history.… Meredith expertly shows how the exigencies of the diamond (and then gold) rush laid the foundation for apartheid.”
Author : D. Omissi,A. Thompson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2016-01-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230598294
This exciting new book marks a major shift in the study of the South African War. It turns attention from the war's much debated causes onto its more neglected consequences. An international team of scholars explores the myriad legacies of the war - for South Africa, for Britain, for the Empire and beyond. The extensive introduction sets the contributions in context, and the elegant afterword offers thought-provoking reflections on their cumulative significance.
Author : Shula Marks,Richard Rathbone
Publisher : Longman Publishing Group
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105039284752
Author : Lis Lange
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2018-02-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351750769
This title was first published in 2003. A fascinating insight into the economic, social and political processes that shaped the lives of white workers in Johannesburg between the beginning of deep level mining (c. 1890) and the 1922 Rand Revolt miners' strike. The book examines four related topics: the formation of working class families, working class accommodation, the constitution of social networks in the working class neighbourhoods and the political and ideological aspects of white workers' unemployment. The main argument presented here is that the class experience of white workers in Johannesburg had a very important role in fostering a sense of community between English and Afrikaner workers and their families. It is this sense of community that plays an important part in understanding the solidarity that emerged between English and Afrikaner workers during the 1922 Rand Revolt.
Author : John Atkinson Hobson
Publisher : Spokesman Books
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1902
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : UOM:49015000434994
Author : Edgar H. Brookes
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2022-10-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000624410
Originally published in 1968, this volume traces the history and growth of Apartheid in South Africa. The acts which enforced Apartheid – the Group Areas Act, Population and Registration Act are given in full. The book also includes documents which reflected reaction to these measures: Parliamentary debates, newspaper reports and policy statements by the leading political parties and religious denominations. The documents are headed by a full historical and analytical introduction.
Author : Robert I. Rotberg
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 856 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1990-10-25
Category : Capitalists and financiers
ISBN : 9780195066685
The definitive biography of one of the most controversial figures of the 19th century captures a life that was complex and fascinating, evil and good. Illustrated.
Author : P. J. Cain
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2002-07-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191542183
The year 2002 sees the centenary of J. A. Hobson's Imperialism: A Study, the most influential critique of British imperial expansion ever written. P. J. Cain marks the occasion by evaluating, for the first time, Hobson's writings on imperialism from his days as a journalist in London to his death in 1940. The early chapters chart Hobson's progress from complacent imperialist in the 1880s to radical critic of empire by 1898. This is followed by an account of the origins of Imperialism and a close analysis of the text in the context of contemporary debates. Two chapters cover Hobson's later writings, showing their richness and variety, and analysing his decision to republish Imperialism in 1938. The author discusses the reception of Imperialism and its emergence as a 'classic' by the late 1930s and ends with a detailed discussion of the relevance of the arguments of Imperialism to present-day historians.
Author : Robert V. Kubicek
Publisher : Durham, N.C. : Published for the Duke University Center for Commonwealth and Comparative Studies [by] Duke University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015014603453
