'Home Is Not So Very Far Away'
Californian Engineers in South Africa, 1868-1915
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20437803 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jessica B Teisch (University of California, Berkeley, corresponding author), Jessica Teisch |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 45 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 139-160 |
| Publication date | 2005-07-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Australian Economic History Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0004-8992 • E-ISSN: 1467-8446 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1467-8446.2005.00132.x |
| OpenAlex | W2036226911 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 11 |
This article describes the fate of Californian engineering and technology in South Africa during the years around the Jameson Raid. In theory, progress promised many things: commercial development, scientific and social enlightenment, free markets and rule of law. But in South Africa, these tools of progress came together in ways that differed from Californian engineers’ own frontier experience. While mining flourished agriculture remained undeveloped. And both, far from producing the society imagined by Californians, furthered imperial goals
Enlightenment · Epistemology · Frontier · Political science · Social engineering (security) · Sociology · Computer Science · Historical Education Studies Worldwide · History · Law · Philosophy
Impressions of South Africa
Rhodes, de beers, and monopoly
Dictionary of American Biography
History of Southern Africa
The Emergence of Multinational Enterprise
The Rothschilds, the Exploration Company and Mining Finance
Environment and History
Mining Engineers and the American West
Economic Imperialism in Theory and Practice
Lost Causes of the Jameson Raid
| Citations per year | 0.33 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2023 - 2023 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |