Bulls, Bears, Boers and Brits

Finance and the Coming of War in Southern Africa, 1894-1899
Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-90-04-69078-3
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 44, 190 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm

Reihe: Afrika-Studiecentrum Series

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Phimister, Ian

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Afrikanische Geschichte
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Primärer Sektor Bergbau
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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).