Copper Empire. Mining and the colonial state in Northern Rhodesia, c1930-1964
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- Author(s) Butler, L J
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 2007
- Pages 426pp
- Publisher Palgrave Macmillan
- Place Published Basingstoke
Topics:
- Name Geopolitical event, natural disaster, etc, impact on business inc end of empire, war, disease, catastrophe, etc, exc industrial conflict
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- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Explore the development of the copper mining industry in Northern Rhodesia from its early stages in the late 1920s until the independence of Zambia in 1964. Its focus is the responses of the British colonial state and imperial state to this development. It 'therefore aims to provide a case study of business-government relations under colonial rule on a dynamic and volatile economic sector'. Has sections: 'The colonial state and the development of the Copperbelt'; 'Wartime mobilisation'; 'Post war commodity boom, 1946-53'; 'Debate on controlling the mining industry, 1939-52'; 'The Copperbelt and the Central African Federation, 1949-57'; 'Demise of the Federation'; 'Mining industry and Zambian independence'. Includes much about British South Africa Co; Rhodesia Selection Trust and Sir Ronald Prain; Roan Antelope Copper Mines Ltd; Rhokana Corp; Anglo American Corp. Also see the writer's 'Business and British decolonisation. Sir Ronald Prain, the mining industry and the Central African Federation', Journal of Imperial & Commonwealth History, 35, 2007