Capital and Labour on the Kimberley Diamond Fields 1871-1890
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3911025 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Karin A Shapiro, Robert Vicat Turrell |
| Year | 1988 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 754 |
| Publication date | 1988-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The International Journal of African Historical Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0361-7882 • E-ISSN: 2326-3016 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/219781 |
| OpenAlex | W2100432303 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 20 |
This academic history of diamond mining in Kimberley is a major study of the beginning of South Africa's mineral revolution. It includes the first analysis of the formation of De Beers Consolidated Mines, one of the most successful companies ever to have been established in Africa. Based on documentary sources, notably in the Standard Bank Archive, the Rothschild Archive and the Philipson Stow Papers, it includes an interpretation of the Black Flag Revolt and of the celebrated amalgamation struggle between Cecil Rhodes and Barney Barnato for the control of the diamond-mining industry. It also contains a narrative and analysis of strikes in mines in South Africa and an extended treatment of the social and economic structure of illicit diamond buying. But at its heart lies the introduction of the compound system and the structural explanation of the role played by this institution in the accummulation of diamond-mining capital
Archaeology · Diamond · Geography · Metallurgy · African history and culture studies · Archaeology and Rock Art Studies · Materials Science · South African History and Culture
Land, Mines, and Bones
Everyday Life after Collapse
Digital technologies in context
Trauma and amputations in 19th century miners from Kimberley, South Africa
Urban history in the new South Africa
S. M. Tagore’s Maṇimālā and the meanings of diamonds in late Victorian Britain and India
Gentlemanly capitalism’ and empire
Chiefship in early colonial Natal, 1843-1879
Company town, company estate
In the Shadow of the Gold Mines
Scripting the Compound
Mining, housing and welfare in South Africa and Zambia
What History for Which Students
Economic History in South Africa
Distributed dynamic capabilities in South Africa's mineral resource-finance network
Labour Studies and Labour History in South Africa
Diamonds, risk and insurance practices in British Africa, with an emphasis on the Gold Coast and Tanganyika
Diamond Wars? Conflict Diamonds and Geographies of Resource Wars
The Cambridge History of South Africa
Changing lifestyles, business, and the politics of the nineteenth-century Cape ice and refrigeration trade
| Unique citing works | 20 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,56 |
| Citation span | 1990 - 2024 (35) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |