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Capitalist investment started in Northern Rhodesia ...

According to Abi, investment capital in the copper mining industry on the Copperbelt in Northern Rhodesia, in the 1930s, especially after the Great Depression was increased and high prices again stimulated mining due to lower labour and production costs7.

Notes towards a Financial History of Copper Mining in ...

Large scale mining on the Northern Rhodesian Copperbelt was chiefly financed from the U.S.A. and South Africa. Roan Antelope mine was originally developed by Chester Beatty's Selection Trust, which also had an interest in the small Bwana Mkubwa copper mine; its other African interests were in West African diamonds.

Northern Rhodesia

The name "Rhodesia" was derived from Cecil John Rhodes, the British capitalist and empire builder who was a guiding figure in British expansion north of the Limpopo River into south central Africa. Rhodes pushed British influence into the region by obtaining mineral rights from local chiefs under questionable treaties. After making a vast fortune in mining in South Africa, it was his ambition to extend the British Empire north, all the way to Cairoif possible, although this was far beyond the r

Lusaka: The New Capital of Northern Rhodesia by Meller

24/07/2013· This short account of the planning of Lusaka as the new capital of Northern Rhodesia, written for its official opening in 1935 as part of jubilee celebrations for King George V, was printed in a edition specifically for that event, and is now very scarce and difficult to obtain, but deserves to be made more widely available for scholars of planning and urban histor

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Copper Empire: Mining and the Colonial State in Northern ...

Copper Empire Mining and the Colonial State in Northern Rhodesia, c.1930 64 Larry Butler Hardcover 9780230555266 £93.00 / $150.00 Copper Empire is a study of the evolving relationship between the British colonial state and the copper mining industry in Northern Rhodesia, from the early stages of development to decolonization, encompassing depression,

Zambia Colonial rule Britannica

In 1911 these were united to form Northern Rhodesia, with its capital at Livingstone, near Victoria Falls. Among a population of perhaps one million, there were about 1,500 white residents. Some had come to mine surface deposits of copper, and a few, mostly from South Africa, farmed on the plateau east of Livingstone.

Rhodesia

Rhodesia , officially from 1970 the Republic of Rhodesia, was an unrecognised state in Southern Africa from 1965 to 1979, equivalent in territory to modern Zimbabwe. Rhodesia was the de facto successor state to the British colony of Southern Rhodesia, which had been self governing since achieving responsible government in 1923. A landlocked nation, Rhodesia was bordered by South Africa to the south, Bechuanaland to the southwest, Zambia (formerly Northern Rh

AN IMPERIAL DILEMMA: COPPER REFINING IN

Broken Hill mine and closely associated with mining in Northern Rhodesia, mooted the idea of refining Northern Rhodesian copper within the British Empire, and in February, Ernest Oppenheimer endorsed that proposal.

Northern Rhodesia Citizendium

Lusaka: The New Capital of Northern Rhodesia : Robert

29/08/2013· Lusaka: The New Capital of Northern Rhodesia by Robert Home, 9780415828680, available at Book Depository with free delivery worldwide.

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