Article ID: CBB001422657

Late Nineteenth-Century Globalization: London and Lomagundi Perspectives on Mining Speculation in Southern Africa, 1894--1904 (2015)

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In southern Africa the portal of globalization opened by finance capital towards the end of the nineteenth century frequently turned on mining speculation. A particularly notorious case was that of the Ayrshire mine in Southern Rhodesia's Lomagundi district. Touted in its heyday as the richest gold prospect in the entire southern half of the continent, the Ayrshire's corporate existence was characterized by company-mongering and market manipulation in the City of London. Few of these concerns immediately impinged on indigenous interests. As interaction between the global and the local was sporadic and contingent, local politics of dynastic accommodation only gradually gave way to global dynamics of dispossession and accumulation.

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Authors & Contributors
Hines, Elizabeth
Luning, Sabine
Cassandra Mark-Thiesen
Panella, Cristiana
Doherty, Anne Marie
Jansen, Jan C.
Concepts
Mines and mining
Gold
Globalization; internationalization
Colonialism
Geology
Metals and metallic compounds
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
20th century
18th century
Enlightenment
17th century
Places
United States
London (England)
South Africa
North Carolina (U.S.)
California (U.S.)
Alaska (U.S.)
Institutions
Tiffany and Company
United States. Geological Survey
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