1st Edition
Mining and Financial Imperialism The Central African Copper Bonanza, c. 1890–1970
By Timo Särkkä
Copyright 2025
218 Pages
18 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
218 Pages
18 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
Mining finance houses were substantial public corporations with access to money markets in the City of London, the world’s leading capital market for mining. These institutions became dominant at the inception of colonial rule and, in varying forms, remained so throughout the twentieth century.
Drawing on a rich corpus of primary sources, this book analyses the Western colonial origins of the... Read more
1 Introduction
2 Mining, gentlemanly capitalism, and the business of imperialism
3 The geographies of mining finance
4 The anatomy of mining and the mine exploration business
5 The world of copper mines, railways and labour
6 The growth of the Central African Copperbelt
7 For whom the windfalls? A post-colonial view of the Central African mining industry
8 Conclusions: Natural resource governance, finance, and imperialism
Index
Biography
Timo Särkkä is a Senior Researcher at the Department of History and Ethnology, University of Jyväskylä, Finland. He teaches and publishes in the fields of imperial and global history.
