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Mining and Financial Imperialism: The Central African Copper Bonanza, c. 1890-1970

Mining and Financial Imperialism: The Central African Copper Bonanza, c. 1890-1970

Särkkä, Timo

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Explorations in Economic History

EconomicsAfrican History

ISBN10: 1032161760
ISBN13: 9781032161761
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jan 30 2025
Pages: 206
Weight: 1.07
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Mining finance houses were substantial public corporations with access to money markets in the City of London, the world's leading capital market for mining. These institutions became dominant at the inception of colonial rule and, in varying forms, remained so throughout the twentieth century.

Drawing on a rich corpus of primary sources, this book analyses the Western colonial origins of the mining industry and its post-colonial legacies in the Central African Copperbelt. It provides insights into the operations of the global business of mining: in particular, how these processes took place, why they were considered desirable by various interest groups, and the impact that these processes continue to have on physical and human environments in parts of the world where they took place. It also turns its gaze to the City of London looking at who the financiers were and the nature of the power which they wielded. A long-term perspective on mining finance reveals that thus far the colonial governments have been the main focus in the history of imperialism in Central Africa, with little focus in many instances on the mining finance houses which have outlived them.

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