05198nam a22006255i 4500 978-3-031-51947-5 DE-He213 20251030111729.0 cr nn 008mamaa 240319s2024 sz | s |||| 0|eng d 9783031519475 978-3-031-51947-5 10.1007/978-3-031-51947-5 doi JV61-152 HBTQ bicssc HIS000000 bisacsh NHTQ thema Lukasiewicz, Mariusz. author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 73348 Gold, Finance and Imperialism in South Africa, 1887–1902 [electronic resource] : A View from the Stock Exchange / by Mariusz Lukasiewicz. 1st ed. 2024. Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. XXXI, 242 p. 12 illus., 9 illus. in color. online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies, 2635-1641 1.Introduction: Colonial South Africa, Mineral Revolutions and Finance -- 2.From Diamonds to Gold: The Rise of Share Dealing in South Africa -- 3.From Market to Exchange: The JSE’s Early Rules, Regulations And Organisation -- 4. Finance, Industry and Information: The JSE and the Chamber Of Mines -- 5.Between Johannesburg, London and Paris: Deep-Level Mining and International Finance -- 6.Finance and Imperialism at The Exchange: The JSE and the Jameson Raid -- 7.A Modernising Exchange and the South African War -- 8. Conclusions. “Lukasiewicz’s book is a deeply researched study of a financial organisation and its intimate links with British imperialism and South Africa’s settler colonialism." —Stephanie Decker, Professor in Strategy, Birmingham Business School “Lukasiewicz deserves commendation for producing this illuminating study of actors and institutions at the intersection of trans-imperial and global finance and politics.” —Ayodeji Olukoju, Professor of History, University of Lagos This book provides a unique account of the financial and political history of the South African War by analysing the organisation and operations of the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE), the oldest existing stock exchange in the African continent. Identifying the JSE as the nexus between international finance, South African gold mining and British imperialism, the book exposes the financial and political connections between Johannesburg, Pretoria, London, and Paris during the final stage of the imperial ‘scramble for southern Africa.’ Gold mining presented the South African Republic (ZAR) and the whole southern African regional economy with a long-term economic future and new prospects of industrialisation. However, this socio-economic transformation was dependent on extensive capital investments and the institutionalisation of a coercive labour regime based on racial discrimination. This monograph provides the first empirical examination of how international finance, imperial politics, and racialised industrial relations became entrenched in a key financial intermediary in colonial South Africa - first in Kimberley in the Cape Colony, and then in Johannesburg in the ZAR. By studying the Johannesburg capital market’s social microstructures, the author demonstrates how colonial and international financial intermediaries underwrote and financed the largest wave of mining investments in Africa prior to the First World War. Filling an important gap in literature on nineteenth-century British imperialism and Anglo-African-Afrikaner relations, this insightful book uses the JSE as a lens to carefully expose the structures and agency of global finance in the outbreak of the South African War, and the making of South Africa as a unified colonial state. Mariusz Lukasiewicz is a Lecturer in African History at the Institute of African Studies, Leipzig University, in Germany. Imperialism. 45663 Africa History. 71617 Great Britain History. 66701 Finance. 58339 History. Economic history. 57506 World politics. 58105 Imperialism and Colonialism. 71228 African History. 71619 History of Britain and Ireland. 66703 Financial History. 71057 Economic History. 57506 Political History. 67817 SpringerLink (Online service) Springer Nature eBook Printed edition: 9783031519468 Printed edition: 9783031519482 Printed edition: 9783031519499 Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies, 2635-1641 73349 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-51947-5 ZDB-2-HTY ZDB-2-SXH 58446 58446