Enterprise and Exploitation in a Victorian Colony.:Aspects of the Economic and Social History of Colonial Natal.

Published by University of Natal Press, 1985, softcover, illustrated, index, 362 pages, some underlining in pencil, also crease to front cover, small  closed tear to back cover, otherwise condition : very good.

Provides a research in the form of twelve essays dealing with closely intermeshed themes: harbour and railway development, the ecology of Natal, ruthless exploitation of its human and natural resources, and the consequences of Indian immigration and Black enterprise. This book charts the socio-economic history of a particular Victorian colony.

W.R. (Bill) Guest was a professor emeritus and senior research associate in Historical Studies on the Pietermaritzburg campus of the University of KwaZulu- Natal. He has published a variety of articles and has authored, co-authored, edited and co-edited more than a dozen books on South African history, focusing primarily on the socio-economic and institutional history of the Natal-Zululand region. 

 John Sellers  was a former editor of Natalia and  was appointed as lecturer in economic history at the

University of Natal in Pietermaritzburg..