Synopses & Reviews
Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for the University of Idaho PressThis significant study offers information on the British investors who brought capital to America's mining industry in the late nineteenth century. The author devotes primary attention to the promotional activities that led to the organization and operation of more than 500 English joint venture stock companies between 1860 and 1901.
Description
Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-279) and index.
About the Author
Dr. Clark C. Spence is Professional Emeritus of History at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the author or Mining Engineers and the American West: The Lace Boot Brigade, 1849-1933.