Mining and Financial Imperialism

Mining finance houses were substantial public corporations with access to money markets in the City of London, the world's leading capital market for mining. These institutions became dominant at the inception of colonial rule and, in varying forms, remained so throughout the twentieth century.

Timo Särkkä is a Senior Researcher at the Department of History and Ethnology, University of Jyväskylä, Finland. He teaches and publishes in the fields of imperial and global history.

1 Introduction 2 Mining, gentlemanly capitalism, and the business of imperialism 3 The geographies of mining finance 4 The anatomy of mining and the mine exploration business 5 6 The growth of the Central African Copperbelt 7 8 Conclusions: Natural resource governance, finance, and imperialism Index