The making of colonial Zimbabwe: Speculation and violence 1890-1902

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dc.contributor.authorPhimister, Ian
dc.date.accessioned2011-04-20T10:21:51Z
dc.date.available2011-04-20T10:21:51Z
dc.date.issued1982-08-16
dc.descriptionAfrican Studies Seminar series. Paper presented 16 August, 1982en_US
dc.description.abstractThe immediate genesis of colonial Zimbabwe grew out of the discovery of the main gold reef on the Witwatersrand in 1886. When news of the find reached the diamond mining centre of Kimberley, reaction was mixed. Some entrepreneurs, particularly those bruised in the on-going fight to amalgamate the diamond industry, made their way as fast as possible to the Rand. Others, with much less reason to gamble, like Cecil Rhodes, held back. Rhodes' scepticism, rooted in the recent failure of the Barberton goldfield and the crash of its stock exchange, was confirmed by the professional opinion of his mining expert.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10539/9597
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesAfrican Studies Institute;ISS 348
dc.subjectZimbabwe. History, 1890-1965en_US
dc.titleThe making of colonial Zimbabwe: Speculation and violence 1890-1902en_US
dc.typeWorking Paperen_US
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