El Dorado in West Africa: The Gold Mining Frontier, African Labor, and Colonial Capitalism

by Raymond E. Dumett

Book Overview

The second half of the nineteenth century witnessed some of the greatest gold mining migrations in history when dreams of bonanza lured thousands of prospectors and diggers to the far corners of the earth--including the Gold Coast of West Africa.

El Dorado in West Africa explores the first modern gold rush of Ghana in all of its dimensions--land, labor, capital, traditional African mining, technology, transport, management, the clash...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0821411985
• ISBN13: 9780821411988
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Ohio University Press
• Length: 235 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"