Raymond E. Dumett
Ashgate
Hardback
276
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 constituted one of the major spearheads of global capitalistic expansion and colonial exploitation. This volume which carries the epic story to the mid-twentieth century provides a truly international perspective on the role of mining entrepreneurs investors and engineers in shaping the economic and political map of the globe in testing management techniques and in setting a vogue for extravagant displays of wealth among the world's rich.
Ashgate
Hardback
276
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 constituted one of the major spearheads of global capitalistic expansion and colonial exploitation. This volume which carries the epic story to the mid-twentieth century provides a truly international perspective on the role of mining entrepreneurs investors and engineers in shaping the economic and political map of the globe in testing management techniques and in setting a vogue for extravagant displays of wealth among the world's rich.