Enterprise and exploitation in a Victorian colony
Subtitle: aspects of the economic and social history of colonial Natal
By: edited by Bill Guest and John M. Sellers.
Contributors: Guest, Bill.; Sellers, John M.
Publisher: University of Natal Press
Published: 1985
Place of publication: Pietermaritzburg
Language: eng
Number of pages: 362
Subjects: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographies and index.
One folded leaf of maps tipped in.
Table of contents: title: Port Natal harbour, c. 1850-1897 / Lucille Heydenrych; title: Railway development in Natal to 1895 / Hein Heydenrych; title: The impact of white settlers on the natural environment of Natal, 1845-1870 / Beverley Ellis; title: External exchange and the Zulu kingdom / Peter Colenbrander; title: The complex nature of agriculture in colonial Natal, 1860-1909 / Charles Ballard and Giuseppe Lenta; title: The origin and development of the woolled sheep industry in the Natal midlands in the 1850s and 1860s / John M. Sellers; title: The Natal sugar industry, 1849-1905 / Peter Richardson; title: Indentured and free Indians in the economy of colonial Natal / Joy Brain; title: Indian trade and trader in colonial Natal / Surendra Bhana; title: African economic experiments in colonial Natal, 1845-1880 / Norman Etherington; title: The impoverishment of the Natal peasantry, 1893-1910 / John Lambert; title: An introduction to the pre-Union Natal coal industry / Ruth Edgecombe and Bill Guest.