[eBook] [PDF] For Gold, Finance and Imperialism in South Africa, 1887–1902 A View from the Stock Exchange 1st Edition By Mariusz Lukasiewicz

[eBook] [PDF] For Gold, Finance and Imperialism in South Africa, 1887–1902 A View from the Stock Exchange 1st Edition By Mariusz Lukasiewicz

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.