The Cowboy Capitalist: John Hays Hammond, the American West, and the Jameson Raid in South AfricaForeword / 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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The Cowboy Capitalist: John Hays Hammond, the American West and the Jameson Raid Charles Van Onselen No preview available - 2017 |
The Cowboy Capitalist: John Hays Hammond, the American West and the Jameson Raid Charles Van Onselen No preview available - 2017 |