The politics, capital and labour of railway-building in the Cape Colony, 1870-1885

This study examines the ambitions and requirements of British financial, manufacturing and other business interests, of different territorial and economic sectors of the colonial settlement in the Cape, and of the men who laboured on the railway works, and analyzes the changing economic and politica...

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Main Author: Purkis, Andrew James
Published: University of Oxford 1979
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.469629