El Dorado in West Africa : the gold-mining frontier, African labor, and colonial capitalism in the Gold Coast, 1875-1900
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El Dorado in West Africa : the gold-mining frontier, African labor, and colonial capitalism in the Gold Coast, 1875-1900
Ohio University Press , J. Currey, c1998
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 370-384) and index
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ISBN 9780821411971
内容説明
The second half of the nineteenth century witnessed some of the greatest gold mining migrations in history when dreams of bonanza lured thousands of prospectors and diggers to the far corners of the earth-including the Gold Coast of West Africa.
El Dorado in West Africa explores the first modern gold rush of Ghana in all of its dimensions-land, labor, capital, traditional African mining, technology, transport, management, the clash of cultures, and colonial rule. The rich tapestry of events is crisscrossed by unexpected ironies and paradoxes.
Professor Dumett tells the story of the expatriate-led gold boom of 1875-1900 against the background of colonial capitalism. Through the use of oral data, he also brings to light the expansion of a parallel "African gold mining frontier," which outpaced the expatriate mining sector.
African women, kings and chiefs, and the ordinary Akan farmer/miners, as well as European engineers and speculators, are the focal points of this study. It probes in depth the productive and developmental features and the turbulent and shattering effects of mining capitalism on African societies.
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: pbk. ISBN 9780821411988
内容説明
The second half of the nineteenth century witnessed some of the greatest gold mining migrations in history when dreams of bonanza lured thousands of prospectors and diggers to the far corners of the earth-including the Gold Coast of West Africa.
El Dorado in West Africa explores the first modern gold rush of Ghana in all of its dimensions-land, labor, capital, traditional African mining, technology, transport, management, the clash of cultures, and colonial rule. The rich tapestry of events is crisscrossed by unexpected ironies and paradoxes.
Professor Dumett tells the story of the expatriate-led gold boom of 1875-1900 against the background of colonial capitalism. Through the use of oral data, he also brings to light the expansion of a parallel "African gold mining frontier," which outpaced the expatriate mining sector.
African women, kings and chiefs, and the ordinary Akan farmer/miners, as well as European engineers and speculators, are the focal points of this study. It probes in depth the productive and developmental features and the turbulent and shattering effects of mining capitalism on African societies.
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ISBN 9780852557686
内容説明
Reveals the impact of European capitalism on an African society.
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 themobilization of a permanent unskilled wage labor force, that the greatest impact on economic and social change can be measured.
"Outstanding Academic Book" American Library Association, 1999 North America: Ohio U Press
目次
- Geological structures and the location of gold in Ghana
- traditional gold mining in the southwestern Akan region - African states, technology, political economy and gender
- the Wassa "gold rush" of 1877-1885 - African and European promoters of mining capitalism
- barriers to gold production in the 1880s - capitalization, technology, labour recruitment and transportation
- the colonial government and the expanding miners frontier - pressures for mining district administration, health services and transport improvements
- overcoming the odds - labour, technology, management and production at the bit three Wassa mining companies 1883-1897
- retrospect and aftermath -mining frontiers, capitalism, labour and the colonial state.
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ISBN 9780852557693
内容説明
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 labour, this study encompasses issues of gender, ethnicity, business organization, pressure groups and exploitation. The authorseeks 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 themobilization of a permanent unskilled wage labour force, that the greatest impact on economic and social change can be measured.
目次
- Geological structures and the location of gold in Ghana
- traditional gold mining in the southwestern Akan region - African states, technology, political economy and gender
- the Wassa "gold rush" of 1877-1885 - African and European promoters of mining capitalism
- barriers to gold production in the 1880s - capitalization, technology, labour recruitment and transportation
- the colonial government and the expanding miners frontier - pressures for mining district administration, health services and transport improvements
- overcoming the odds - labour, technology, management and production at the bit three Wassa mining companies 1883-1897
- retrospect and aftermath -mining frontiers, capitalism, labour and the colonial state.
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