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Mediators, contract men, and colonial capital : mechanized gold mining in the Gold Coast Colony, 1879-1909
- Title
- Mediators, contract men, and colonial capital : mechanized gold mining in the Gold Coast Colony, 1879-1909 / Cassandra Mark-Thiesen.
- Author
- Mark-Thiesen, Cassandra
- Publication
- Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press, 2018.
- ©2018
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Details
- Description
- xii, 217 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm
- Series Statement
- Rochester studies in African history and the diaspora
- Uniform Title
- Rochester studies in African history and the diaspora.
- Subjects
- Ghana
- Labor supply > Ghana > History
- Great Britain > Colonies > Africa > Administration > History
- Kolonialismus
- Industrial relations > Ghana > History
- Ghana > History > To 1957
- Gold miners > Effect of technological innovations on > Ghana > History
- Bergmann
- Gold miners > Recruiting > Ghana > History
- Goldbergbau
- Goldküste
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Prospectors, politicians, and the question of "progress": the first and second gold booms in Wassa -- Labor recruitment in the nineteenth century: the place of practicality -- Disrupted recruitment at the turn of the twentieth century: women, whites, and other labor agents -- Government strategies for assisting the mines -- Labor agents, chiefs and officials, 1905-1909: the incorporation of the northern territories' labor reserve.
- Call Number
- JFE 18-4394
- ISBN
- 9781580469180
- 1580469183
- LCCN
- 2017050185
- OCLC
- 1000355978
- Author
- Mark-Thiesen, Cassandra, author.
- Title
- Mediators, contract men, and colonial capital : mechanized gold mining in the Gold Coast Colony, 1879-1909 / Cassandra Mark-Thiesen.
- Publisher
- Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press, 2018.
- Copyright Date
- ©2018
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Rochester studies in African history and the diasporaRochester studies in African history and the diaspora.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Report No.
- (Coutts)038684045
- Research Call Number
- JFE 18-4394