El Dorado in West Africa: The Gold-Mining Frontier, African Labor, and Colonial Capitalism in the Gold Coast, 1875-1900 - Couverture souple

Dumett, Raymond E.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0821411985 ISBN 13 : 9780821411988

Editeur : Ohio University Press, 1999

Synopsis

Book by Dumett Raymond E

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Gold mining occupies a central place in the economic evolution of Ghana. This text examines the period of transition from traditional mining systems to mechanized, capitalized mining companies in the Akan area of the Gold Coast. Looking at the role of African as well as European mining entrepreneurs, female as well as male mining labor, this study encompasses issues of gender, ethnicity, business organization, pressure groups and exploitation. The author seeks to reveal a new complexity in the economic and social history of mining in the late 19th century. In particular he concludes that it is in the individualization of land transfers to mining concessionaires, rather than in the mobilization of a permanent unskilled wage labor force, that the greatest impact on economic and social change can be measured. North America: Ohio U Press

Revue de presse :

A major addition to the growing historiography of Africa --Business History

by far the most deeply researched and analysed study of the origins of any mining industry north of Zimbabwe; unquestionably it is also much the best... This is revisionist history at its best... This excellent book is a triumphant vindication of thorough empiricism. --Africa

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Ohio University Press
• Date d'édition: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0821411985
• ISBN 13: 9780821411988
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 235