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Title:

Enterprise and exploitation in a Victorian colony : aspects of the economic and social history of colonial Natal / edited by Bill Guest and John M. Sellers.

Publisher:

University of Natal Press,

Copyright Date:

1985

Description:

xiv, 362 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm

Subject:

KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa)--Economic conditions.
KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa)--Social conditions.
KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa)--History--1843-1893.
KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa)--History--1893-1910.

Other Authors:

Guest, Bill. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n86137071
Sellers, John M. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n86137072

Notes:

One folded leaf of maps tipped in. Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

ISBN:

9780869804698
0869804693

OCLC:

(OCoLC)13821165

LCCN:

86146971

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)