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The Cowboy Capitalist : John Hays Hammond, the American West, and the Jameson Raid in South Africa /
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Charlottesville :
University of Virginia Press,
2018.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Foreword / by Robert E. May
- Introduction. looking up from the last of history
- North Atlantic revolutions and South African realities : plotting urban insurrection in an agrarian economy, September 1894
- American sway and acquisitive ways : capitalist culture and the foundations of the Witwatersrand, c1890-1899
- The makings of Cowboy Jack : John Hays Hammond and the Wild West, 1855-1883
- Cowboy capitalists, part I :trails in the northern Rockies, 1882-1892
- Cowboy capitalists, part II :the siege of Bunker Hill and flight, 1892-1893
- Ghost riders of the Coeur d'Alene :the pursuit of Hammond, Johannesburg, 1893-1894
- Sheriff Bob blinks and Cowboy Jack steps up : Johannesburg sunlight, San Francisco shadow, 1894-1895
- Rivalries in the camp :the Beit boys and the Rhodes boys, c1890-1895
- Dr. Jim's American outriders and medicine men, c1891-1895
- Wisps and curls rising above the brew : a chronological outline of the plot, c1894-1895
- Cowboy Jack's secret aspirations : abducting the president and the District of Columbia template, October-December 1895
- Rangers and rustlers, c. October-mid-December, 1895
- Cowboy Jack talks fast and fires blanks : from revolutionary imperialist to republican constitutionalist in four days, 29 December 1895 to 2 January 1896
- The big roundup : a weak agrarian state corrals ascendant mining capitalists, 3-9 January 1896
- Intelligence and counterintelligence networks in Johannesburg and Pretoria, c1890-1895
- State attorney versus state president, 1894-1895
- Mobilisation and manoeuvring, 1895-1896
- Managing the aftermath, 1895-1896
- Agents, conspirators and collaborators : buying time, saving face, 1895-1896
- Organising a rescue party for Cowboy Jack :the Old South reaches out to Washington, DC, 1896
- The Kruger government in the saddle and Uncle Sam has a word with Oom Paul, 1896
- Smoking the peace pipe without inhaling : Hammond and Jameson, c1895-1896
- Aligning fact and fiction : regaining a reputation lost, c1895-1899
- Back in a country fit for cowboy heroes : Hammond's American success renewed, 1899-1906
- The phantom vice president : greasing the squeaky wheels of big business, c1906-1913
- From the court of St James's to the Mexican revolution : diplomacy and the dark arts, c1910-1914
- Hammond, Mexico and transnational capitalism, c1909-1917
- A uniform of greed : sword of colonialism, shield of law, c1913-1920
- Riding shotgun into history : the Old West negotiates the 20th century, c1914-1936
- Conclusion. John Hays Hammond and the Jameson raid read as American imperial history
- Notes
- A cautionary note: the historiography of the Jameson raid.