Mining Tycoons in the Age of Empire, 1870–1945: Entrepreneurship, High Finance, Politics and Territorial Expansion (Modern Economic and Social History) by Raymond E. Dumett
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Overview: The years of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, aptly described by Mark Twain as the ‘Gilded Age’ witnessed an unprecedented level of technological change, material excess, untrammled pursuit of profit and imperial expansion. Within this dynamic and often ruthless environment many colorful characters strode across the world stage, among them the great mining tycoons, who with the thousands of prospectors, diggers, shift bosses, timbermen, ‘blastmen’ and ‘muckers’ in mining enterprise constituted one of the major spearheads of global capitalistic expansion and colonial exploitation.
Genre: Non-Fiction > History
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