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Author:   Kenneth E. Wilburn
Publisher:   The Edwin Mellen Press Ltd
Imprint:   Edwin Mellen Press Ltd
ISBN:  

9780773436732

ISBN 10:   0773436731
Pages:   592
Publication Date:   April 2010
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Abbreviations; List of Maps; List of Illustrations; Foreword: Robert Rotberg; Preface; Acknowledgements; Part One: Early Life, Telegraphy, and the Anglo-Zulu War 1848-1885; Chapter 1: Early Life and South African Telegraphs, 1848-1878; Chapter 2: Telegraphy and the Origins of the Anglo-ZuluWar, 1878-1879; Chapter 3: Sivewright and the Anglo-Zulu War, 1878-1879; Chapter 4: Trans-Africanand Ocean Telegraphy, 1877-1885; Part Two: The Imperialist Afrikander, 1885-1894; Chapter 5: Early Cape Politics and Entrepreneurship on the Witwatersrand, 1885-1894; Chapter 6: Ministry of All the Talents: Political Union of the Cape Colony, 1890-1892; Chapter 7: The Sivewright Agreement: Railway Imperialism; Chapter 8: Abroad: The Logan Contract, Delagoa Bay and the South African Students Union, 1892-1893; Chapter 9: The Logan Contract and the Ministry of All the Talents, 1893-1895; Chapter 10: Profits, Promises and Glen Grey, 1893-1895; Part Three: Laird of Lourensford, 1895-1898; Chapter 11: The Drifts Crisis and the Jameson Raid, 1895-1896; Chapter 12: The Imperialist Afrikander, the Cape, and the Transvaal, 1898; Part Four: Resident Proprietor of Tulliallan, 1899-1916; Chapter 13: South Africa from Great Britain, 1899-1916; Chapter 14: Sivewright's Redemptive Work in Ecuador, 1901-1916; Chapter 15: The Eirenicom Arrives at the Terminus, 1905-1916; Appendix A: The Sivewright Agreement (Abridged); Appendix B: The Logan Contract; Appendix C: British and US Currencies, 1878-1916; Appendix D: Vanity Fair Commentarie; Select Bibliography; Index.

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James Sivewright is badly in need of historical rehabilitation. This thorough biography, by the one person who has seen all of the Sivewright papers and the relevant archives, ought to achieve that posthumous rehabilitation - if anyone can accomplish such a difficult task. - Prof. Robert I. Rotberg Harvard University ... brings new insights to an important part of South African historiography. - Prof. Aran S. MacKinnon University of West Georgia

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