British Investments and the American Mining Frontier, 1860-1901
Autor Clark C. Spenceen Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 dec 1994
Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for the University of Idaho Press
This significant study offers information on the British investors who brought capital to America's mining industry in the late nineteenth century. The author devotes primary attention to the promotional activities that led to the organization and operation of more than 500 English joint venture stock companies between 1860 and 1901.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780893011789
ISBN-10: 0893011789
Pagini: 288
Ilustrații: Illustrations, Bibliography, Index
Dimensiuni: 154 x 227 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.46 kg
Editura: Caxton Press
ISBN-10: 0893011789
Pagini: 288
Ilustrații: Illustrations, Bibliography, Index
Dimensiuni: 154 x 227 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.46 kg
Editura: Caxton Press
Notă biografică
Dr. Clark C. Spence is Professional Emeritus of History at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the author or Mining Engineers and the American West: The Lace Boot Brigade, 1849-1933.
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This significant study offers information on the British inventors who brought capital to America's mining industry in the late nineteenth century. The author devotes primary attention to the promotional activities that led to the organization and operation of more than 500 English joint venture stock companies between 1860 and 1901. In excerpts from general and specialized British periodicals, he shows how the success or failure of American mining projects was faithfully reported. British investors were intrigued with brochures and pamphlets written about the American frontier and its tremendous mineral wealth, which was supposedly there for the asking. Englishmen returning home with vivid descriptions of successful "strikes", American promoters hawking shares, public officials pushing mining schemes, and the Yankee colony that congregated at London's Lanham Hotel are other aspects of this unusual story.