Ernest Oppenheimer And The Economic Development Of Southern Africa
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Author | : Theodor Emanuel Gregory |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 722 |
Release | : 1962 |
Genre | : Africa, Southern |
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The author of this factually detailed book was originally commissioned by Anglo American Corporation of South Africa to write a history of that institution, but it was decided after the death of Ernest Oppenheimer to link the company history directly to his name. As a conventional company history, the book is strong on details but devoid of any serious criticism of the company and its leaders. The focus is on the mining and marketing of diamonds, and there are, therefore, several references to the development of mining in Namibia. The author shows, for example, that the acquisition of monopoly control over the Namibian diamond fields through an Anglo subsidiary, Consolidated Diamond Mines (CDM), played an important role in the formation of the newsyndicate in 1925. There is also some information of the strategy of De Beers during the depression in the 1930s, during which CDM was closed down altogether for several years. For another study of the Oppenheimer empire, with fewer details, see Edward Jessup: Ernest Oppenheimer: a study in power. (London: Rex Collings, 1979, 357 p.). From a quite different perspective, Duncan Innes has recently published a well documented and critical analysis of Anglo American Corporation (Anglo American and the rise of modern South Africa, Johannesburg/London 1984). (Eriksen/Moorsom 1989).
Author | : Theodore Emanuel Gugenheim Gregory |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 714 |
Release | : 2013-06 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781258763503 |
Author | : Theodor Emanuel Gregory |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 726 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
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Author | : C. H. Feinstein |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 330 |
Release | : 2005-06-23 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780521850919 |
This book examines five hundred years of South African economic history.
Author | : David Sunderland |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 404 |
Release | : 2024-10-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1040249698 |
One of the main motives for British imperialism in Africa was economic gain. This collection examines the ways in which Britain developed Africa, and, in so doing, benefited her own economy.
Author | : Z.A. Konczacki |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 310 |
Release | : 2014-01-14 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1135199019 |
First Published in 1990. Volume Two of Studies of Economic History of South Africa, looks at the Lesotho and Swaziland regions. The unfolding history and historiography of Southern Africa pose profound challenges for both analysis and praxis in the last decade of the twentieth century. These challenges are reflected in the range of investigations and contradictions, some of which are treated here, which together constitute an intellectual and political conjuncture. This collection of studies deals with the countries which were not included in the companion book on the economic history of the Front- Line States. Most of the space in the present volume is devoted to South Africa, primarily because of its importance to the region but also because contributions to the economic history of that country in English are very extensive as compared to the other states of Southern Africa.
Author | : Jade Davenport |
Publisher | : Jonathan Ball Publishers |
Total Pages | : 756 |
Release | : 2013-12-18 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1868424049 |
Before the advent of the great mineral revolution in the latter half of the 19th century, South Africa was a sleepy colonial backwater whose unpromising landscape was seemingly devoid of any economic potential. Yet lying just beneath the dusty surface of the land lay the richest treasure trove of gold, diamonds, platinum, coal and a host of other metals and minerals that has ever been discovered in one country. It was the discovery and exploitation of first diamonds in 1870 and then gold in 1886 that proved the catalyst to the greatest mineral revolution the world has ever known, which transformed South Africa into the supreme industrialised power on the African continent. Here for the first time is the complete history of South Africa's phenomenal mineral revolution spanning a period of more than 150 years, from its earliest commercial beginnings to the present day, incorporating seven of the major commodities that have been exploited. Digging Deep describes the establishment and unparalleled growth of mining, tracing the history of the industry from its humble beginnings where copper was first mined on a commercial basis in Namaqualand in the Cape Colony in the early 1850s, to the discovery and exploitation of the country's other major mineral commodities. This is also the story of how mining gave rise to modern South Africa and how it compelled the country to develop and progress the way in which it did. It also incorporates the stories of the visionary men - Cecil Rhodes, Alfred Beit, Barney Barnato, Sir Ernest Oppenheimer, Sammy Marks and Hans Merensky - who pioneered and shaped the development of the industry on which modern South Africa was built.
Author | : A. J. H. Latham |
Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Africa |
ISBN | : 9780719018770 |
A reference for graduate and undergraduate students presenting the bibliographic details and sometimes describing and evaluating the content of over 5,000 books in English, most published since 1945 and many quite recently, but also some earlier works of enduring importance. A section of works on all three continents is followed by sections on each, which first consider the continent as a whole, then each country, usually by chronological periods and topics such as economics, politics, and society. Indexed only by author and editor, but the table of contents is detailed enough to provide adequate access. Distributed in the US by St. Martin's Press. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
Author | : Y. G-m. Lulat |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 522 |
Release | : 2019-05-30 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 100001066X |
Relations between the United States and South Africa - or the parts of the world these nations now occupy - go nearly as far back as the very beginning of their inception as permanent European colonial intrusions. This book is a critical overview of these relations from the late seventeenth century to the present. Unprecedented in its scope - and s
Author | : L. H. Gann |
Publisher | : CUP Archive |
Total Pages | : 748 |
Release | : 1969 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521086417 |
A comprehensive study of recent African history, examining the political, social, and economic effects of colonialism.