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1 online resource. |
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Reconsiderations in southern African history
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Reconsiderations in southern African history.
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"Originally published in 2017 by Jonathan Ball Publishers, South Africa, a division of Media24 (Pty) Ltd." |
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Foreword / by Robert E. May -- Introduction. looking up from the last of history -- North Atlantic revolutions and South African realities : plotting urban insurrection in an agrarian economy, September 1894 -- American sway and acquisitive ways : capitalist culture and the foundations of the Witwatersrand, c1890-1899 -- The makings of Cowboy Jack : John Hays Hammond and the Wild West, 1855-1883 -- Cowboy capitalists, part I :trails in the northern Rockies, 1882-1892 -- Cowboy capitalists, part II :the siege of Bunker Hill and flight, 1892-1893 -- Ghost riders of the Coeur d'Alene :the pursuit of Hammond, Johannesburg, 1893-1894 -- Sheriff Bob blinks and Cowboy Jack steps up : Johannesburg sunlight, San Francisco shadow, 1894-1895 -- Rivalries in the camp :the Beit boys and the Rhodes boys, c1890-1895 -- Dr. Jim's American outriders and medicine men, c1891-1895 -- Wisps and curls rising above the brew : a chronological outline of the plot, c1894-1895 -- Cowboy Jack's secret aspirations : abducting the president and the District of Columbia template, October-December 1895 -- Rangers and rustlers, c. October-mid-December, 1895 -- Cowboy Jack talks fast and fires blanks : from revolutionary imperialist to republican constitutionalist in four days, 29 December 1895 to 2 January 1896 -- The big roundup : a weak agrarian state corrals ascendant mining capitalists, 3-9 January 1896 -- Intelligence and counterintelligence networks in Johannesburg and Pretoria, c1890-1895 -- State attorney versus state president, 1894-1895 -- Mobilisation and manoeuvring, 1895-1896 -- Managing the aftermath, 1895-1896 -- Agents, conspirators and collaborators : buying time, saving face, 1895-1896 -- Organising a rescue party for Cowboy Jack :the Old South reaches out to Washington, DC, 1896 -- The Kruger government in the saddle and Uncle Sam has a word with Oom Paul, 1896 -- Smoking the peace pipe without inhaling : Hammond and Jameson, c1895-1896 -- Aligning fact and fiction : regaining a reputation lost, c1895-1899 -- Back in a country fit for cowboy heroes : Hammond's American success renewed, 1899-1906 -- The phantom vice president : greasing the squeaky wheels of big business, c1906-1913 -- From the court of St James's to the Mexican revolution : diplomacy and the dark arts, c1910-1914 -- Hammond, Mexico and transnational capitalism, c1909-1917 -- A uniform of greed : sword of colonialism, shield of law, c1913-1920 -- Riding shotgun into history : the Old West negotiates the 20th century, c1914-1936 -- Conclusion. John Hays Hammond and the Jameson raid read as American imperial history -- Notes -- A cautionary note: the historiography of the Jameson raid. |
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Hammond, John Hays, 1855-1936.
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Hammond, John Hays, 1855-1936. |
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Hammond, John Hays, 1855-1936. |
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Americans -- South Africa -- Transvaal -- History.
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Americans. |
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South Africa -- Transvaal. |
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History. |
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Mining engineers -- United States -- Biography.
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Mining engineers. |
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United States. |
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Biographies.
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Jameson's Raid, 1895-1896.
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Jameson's Raid (1895-1896) |
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United States -- Foreign relations -- 1865-1921.
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International relations. |
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1865-1921 |
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Transvaal (South Africa) -- History -- 1880-1910.
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Biographies.
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May, Robert E., writer of foreword.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 9780813941318 0813941318 (DLC) 2018001931 (OCoLC)1010958008 |
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9780813941363 (electronic book) |
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0813941369 (electronic book) |
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9780813941318 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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0813941318 |
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