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6. Frenzied Finance: Gold Mining in the Globalizing South, circa 1886–1896
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Ian Phimister
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- Frontmatter i
- Contents ix
- List of Illustrations xi
- Preface xiii
- Editors’ Acknowledgments xv
- Timeline and Map: Selected Nineteenth-Century Gold Rushes xix
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Part One. Global Transformations in the Age of Gold
- 1. Seeking a Global History of Gold 3
- 2. California, Coincidence, and Empire 42
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Part Two. Settler Societies and Gold Rush Democracy
- 3. Gold and the Public in the Nineteenth-Century Gold Rushes 65
- 4. The Pacific Gold Rushes and the Struggle for Order 88
- 5. The Chinese Question: The Gold Rushes and Global Politics, 1849–1910 109
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Part Three. Finance, Speculation, and the Economics of Gold Rushes
- 6. Frenzied Finance: Gold Mining in the Globalizing South, circa 1886–1896 139
- 7. Dreams of a “Johannesburg of West Africa”: Th e Gold Coast’s Moment in the Imperial Rush for Gold 163
- 8. Creating a Global Industry? Geology, Capital, and Company Formation on the Goldfields of the Industrial Age 184
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Part Four. Expertise, the Environment, and Mining Technologies
- 9. The Real Wealth of the World: Hydraulic Mining and the Environment in the Circum-Pacific Goldfields 209
- 10. Engineering Gold Rushes: Engineers and the Mechanics of Global Connectivity 229
- 11. Grounding Capitalism: Geology, Labor, and the Nome Gold Rush 252
- Select Bibliography 273
- List of Contributors 303
- Index 307
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Frontmatter i
- Contents ix
- List of Illustrations xi
- Preface xiii
- Editors’ Acknowledgments xv
- Timeline and Map: Selected Nineteenth-Century Gold Rushes xix
-
Part One. Global Transformations in the Age of Gold
- 1. Seeking a Global History of Gold 3
- 2. California, Coincidence, and Empire 42
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Part Two. Settler Societies and Gold Rush Democracy
- 3. Gold and the Public in the Nineteenth-Century Gold Rushes 65
- 4. The Pacific Gold Rushes and the Struggle for Order 88
- 5. The Chinese Question: The Gold Rushes and Global Politics, 1849–1910 109
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Part Three. Finance, Speculation, and the Economics of Gold Rushes
- 6. Frenzied Finance: Gold Mining in the Globalizing South, circa 1886–1896 139
- 7. Dreams of a “Johannesburg of West Africa”: Th e Gold Coast’s Moment in the Imperial Rush for Gold 163
- 8. Creating a Global Industry? Geology, Capital, and Company Formation on the Goldfields of the Industrial Age 184
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Part Four. Expertise, the Environment, and Mining Technologies
- 9. The Real Wealth of the World: Hydraulic Mining and the Environment in the Circum-Pacific Goldfields 209
- 10. Engineering Gold Rushes: Engineers and the Mechanics of Global Connectivity 229
- 11. Grounding Capitalism: Geology, Labor, and the Nome Gold Rush 252
- Select Bibliography 273
- List of Contributors 303
- Index 307