Fuelling the Empire South Africa’s Gold and the Road to War 1st Edition by John J Stephens ISBN 0470850671 978-0470850671

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ISBN 10: 0470850671 

ISBN 13: 978-0470850671

Author: John J. Stephens

For more than a century following its discovery, South Africa held little interest for the imperial powers of Europe. When gold was discovered there toward the end of the nineteenth century, the territory suddenly became one of the most hotly contested pieces of real estate in the world. Fuelling the Empire tells the story of the South African gold rush, the vast political and economic forces it set in motion, and the devastating military conflict to which it gave riseâ??the Boer War, the first large-scale human tragedy of the twentieth century.

Table of contents:

Part One Irreconcilable expectations
1 Setting the stage
2 British expectations at the Cape
3 Expectations on the Eastern Frontier
4 The parting of the ways
5 The Transvaal unsettled
Part Two Open borders across the Vaal
6 Foundation and colonization
7 Gold to the rescue?
8 From flawed to failed
9 Britain to the rescue
Part Three Gold – the mixed blessing
10 Economics, the gold standard and British policy in
South Africa
11 Wars, concessions and a short boom
12 Opening Pandora’s box – mining the gold
13 The challenge to mining
Part Four Intrigue and confrontation
14 Afrikaner nationalism and railway politics
15 A tale of two cities
16 The conspiracy and the raid
17 Power politics
18 A short war a long battle

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