Enterprise and exploitation in a Victorian colony : aspects of the economic and social history of colonial Natal /

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Imprint:Pietermaritzburg : University of Natal Press, 1985.
Description:xiv, 362 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/814668
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Other authors / contributors:Guest, Bill
Sellers, John M.
ISBN:0869804693 (pbk.)
Notes:One folded leaf of maps tipped in.
Includes bibliographies and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Port Natal harbour, c. 1850-1897 / Lucille Heydenrych
  • Railway development in Natal to 1895 / Hein Heydenrych
  • The impact of white settlers on the natural environment of Natal, 1845-1870 / Beverley Ellis
  • External exchange and the Zulu kingdom / Peter Colenbrander
  • The complex nature of agriculture in colonial Natal, 1860-1909 / Charles Ballard and Giuseppe Lenta
  • The origin and development of the woolled sheep industry in the Natal midlands in the 1850s and 1860s / John M. Sellers
  • The Natal sugar industry, 1849-1905 / Peter Richardson
  • Indentured and free Indians in the economy of colonial Natal / Joy Brain
  • Indian trade and trader in colonial Natal / Surendra Bhana
  • African economic experiments in colonial Natal, 1845-1880 / Norman Etherington
  • The impoverishment of the Natal peasantry, 1893-1910 / John Lambert
  • An introduction to the pre-Union Natal coal industry / Ruth Edgecombe and Bill Guest.