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The cowboy capitalist : John Hays Hammond, the American West, and the Jameson raid in South Africa

Title
The cowboy capitalist : John Hays Hammond, the American West, and the Jameson raid in South Africa / Charles van Onselen.
Author
Van Onselen, Charles
Publication
  • Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2018.
  • ©2017

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Additional Authors
May, Robert E.
Description
xviii, 557 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.
Summary
The Jameson Raid was a pivotal moment in the history of South Africa, linking events from the Anglo-Boer War to the declaration of the Union of South Africa in 1910. For more than a century, the failed revolution has been interpreted through the lens of British imperialism, with responsibility laid at the feet of Cecil Rhodes. Yet, the raid was less a serious attempt to overthrow a Boer government than a wild adventure with transnational roots in American filibustering. In The Cowboy Capitalist, renowned South African historian Charles van Onselen challenges a historiography of over 120 years, locating the raid in American rather than British history and forcing us to rethink the histories of at least three nations. Through a close look at the little-remembered figure of John Hays Hammond, a confidant of both Rhodes and Jameson, he discovers the American Old West on the South African Highveld. This radical reinterpretation challenges the commonly held belief that the Jameson Raid was quintessentially British and, in doing so, drives splinters into our understanding of events as far forward as South Africa's critical 1948 general election, with which the foundations of Grand Apartheid were laid.
Series Statement
Reconsiderations in southern African history
Uniform Title
Reconsiderations in southern African history.
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Biographies.
  • Biography.
  • History.
Note
  • "Originally published in 2017 by Jonathan Ball Publishers, South Africa, a division of Media24 (Pty) Ltd."
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Foreword / by Robert E. May -- Introduction. looking up from the last of history -- North Atlantic revolutions and South African realities : plotting urban insurrection in an agrarian economy, September 1894 -- American sway and acquisitive ways : capitalist culture and the foundations of the Witwatersrand, c1890-1899 -- The makings of Cowboy Jack : John Hays Hammond and the Wild West, 1855-1883 -- Cowboy capitalists, part I :trails in the northern Rockies, 1882-1892 -- Cowboy capitalists, part II :the siege of Bunker Hill and flight, 1892-1893 -- Ghost riders of the Coeur d'Alene :the pursuit of Hammond, Johannesburg, 1893-1894 -- Sheriff Bob blinks and Cowboy Jack steps up : Johannesburg sunlight, San Francisco shadow, 1894-1895 -- Rivalries in the camp :the Beit boys and the Rhodes boys, c1890-1895 -- Dr. Jim's American outriders and medicine men, c1891-1895 -- Wisps and curls rising above the brew : a chronological outline of the plot, c1894-1895 -- Cowboy Jack's secret aspirations : abducting the president and the District of Columbia template, October-December 1895 -- Rangers and rustlers, c. October-mid-December, 1895 -- Cowboy Jack talks fast and fires blanks : from revolutionary imperialist to republican constitutionalist in four days, 29 December 1895 to 2 January 1896 -- The big roundup : a weak agrarian state corrals ascendant mining capitalists, 3-9 January 1896 -- Intelligence and counterintelligence networks in Johannesburg and Pretoria, c1890-1895 -- State attorney versus state president, 1894-1895 -- Mobilisation and manoeuvring, 1895-1896 -- Managing the aftermath, 1895-1896 -- Agents, conspirators and collaborators : buying time, saving face, 1895-1896 -- Organising a rescue party for Cowboy Jack :the Old South reaches out to Washington, DC, 1896 -- The Kruger government in the saddle and Uncle Sam has a word with Oom Paul, 1896 -- Smoking the peace pipe without inhaling : Hammond and Jameson, c1895-1896 -- Aligning fact and fiction : regaining a reputation lost, c1895-1899 -- Back in a country fit for cowboy heroes : Hammond's American success renewed, 1899-1906 -- The phantom vice president : greasing the squeaky wheels of big business, c1906-1913 -- From the court of St James's to the Mexican revolution : diplomacy and the dark arts, c1910-1914 -- Hammond, Mexico and transnational capitalism, c1909-1917 -- A uniform of greed : sword of colonialism, shield of law, c1913-1920 -- Riding shotgun into history : the Old West negotiates the 20th century, c1914-1936 -- Conclusion. John Hays Hammond and the Jameson raid read as American imperial history -- Notes -- A cautionary note: the historiography of the Jameson raid.
Call Number
Sc E 19-214
ISBN
  • 9780813941318
  • 0813941318
LCCN
2018001931
OCLC
1010958008
Author
Van Onselen, Charles, author.
Title
The cowboy capitalist : John Hays Hammond, the American West, and the Jameson raid in South Africa / Charles van Onselen.
Publisher
Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2018.
Copyright Date
©2017
Edition
First University of Virginia Press edition.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
Reconsiderations in southern African history
Reconsiderations in southern African history.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Chronological Term
1865-1921
Added Author
May, Robert E., writer of foreword.
Research Call Number
Sc E 19-214
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