Sir Ernest Oppenheimer and the Economic Development of Southern Africa Theodore Gregory

Sir Ernest Oppenheimer and the Economic Development of Southern Africa     

Author: Theodore Gregory  

Publisher: Oxford University Press   

Edition: First 1962  

ISBN: Not stated 

Language: English

Condition: Good. Clean copy with tight binding. 

Binding: Hardcover with dustjacket  

Pages: 637. Print with images and a detailed foldout map  

Additional Information

The author of this factually detailed book was originally commissioned by Anglo American Corporation of South Africa to write a history of that institution, but it was decided after the death of Ernest Oppenheimer to link the company history directly to his name. As a conventional company history, the book is strong on details but devoid of any serious criticism of the company and its leaders. The focus is on the mining and marketing of diamonds, and there are, therefore, several references to the development of mining in Namibia. The author shows, for example, that the acquisition of monopoly control over the Namibian diamond fields through an Anglo subsidiary, Consolidated Diamond Mines (CDM), played an important role in the formation of the newsyndicate in 1925. There is also some information of the strategy of De Beers during the depression in the 1930s, during which CDM was closed down altogether for several years.

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