Between 1849 and 1853 shares in nearly 120 public companies to exploit the booming goldfields of California and Australia were offered to the British public. The companies were collectively capitalised at over AGBP15 million, but in the end only some AGBP1.75 million was actually raised between 42 of them, with only one company surviving what the newspapers of the day described as a 'gold bubble'. This book provides an overview of the entire bubble event, its antecedents and its outcomes. A number of researchers have investigated an earlier boom in the mid-1820s to reopen gold and silver mines in Latin America and several have studied individual company operations of that period. This is the first detailed investigation of the British gold bubble companies of the 1850s and their involvement in the almost simultaneous gold rushes on both sides of the Pacific Ocean.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN-13
9781472442796
eBay Product ID (ePID)
208850859
Product Key Features
Author
John Woodland
Publication Name
Money Pits: British Mining Companies in the Californian and Australian Gold Rushes of the 1850s
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Subject
History, Business
Publication Year
2014
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
296 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
234mm
Item Width
156mm
Item Weight
680g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
John Woodland
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom
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