Enterprise and Society Advance Access originally published online on July 10, 2009
Enterprise and Society 2009 10(3):594-596; doi:10.1093/es/khp025
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Raymond E. Dumett, ed. Mining Tycoons in the Age of Empire, 1870–1945. Entrepreneurship, High Finance, Politics and Territorial Expansion
Raymond E. Dumett, ed. Mining Tycoons in the Age of Empire, 1870–1945. Entrepreneurship, High Finance, Politics and Territorial Expansion. Farnham, UK: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2009. xiii + 255 pp. ISBN 978-0-7546-6303-4, £60.00 (cloth)
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As the editor of this welcome collection of essays makes clear in his introduction, the history of mining development weaves together numerous important themes, political, economic, and social. This is particularly true of the years encompassed by this volume, witnessing the emergence of a global mining industry, when the origins of modern multinational and transnational enterprise can be detected. These selected life stories do much to illuminate the complex processes involved, and the contribution of some of
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