The Uses and Misuses of Capital

The Journal of Pacific History

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 1984, Pages 66-82

  Thompson, Anne Gabrielle ^a  

^a NONE   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 7044281785     PISSN: 00223344     EISSN: 14699605     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00223348408572482     Document Type: Article

References (29)

1. H. Feis, Europe the World's Banker 1870–1914 (New Haven 1930), 463.
2. J. Bouvier, ‘Encore sur 1 ’impéialisme: des rapports entre banque et Industrie dans I'expansion française au dehors (1880-1914), Revue Française d'Histoire d'Ohtre-mer, LXVII: 248–9 (1980), 217–26, analyses briefly the dynamics involved.
3. Feis, op. cit., xv.
4. See e.g. R. I. Rhodes (ed.), Imperialism and Underdevelopment. A Reader (New York 1970); D. Denoon, Settler Capitalism. The Dynamics of Dependent Development (Oxford 1983).
5. D. Shineberg, ‘Un nouveau regard sur la démographic historique de la Nouvelle-Calédonie’, Journal de la Société des Océanistes, 39 (June 1983) aims at dispelling some of the myths attached to the question. These estimates appear to relate to the Grande-Terre only.
6. R. Dousset, Colonialisme et contradictions (Paris 1970), 84; Shineberg, op. cit.
7. J. B. Alberti, Etudes sur la colonisation à la Nouvelle-Calédonie (Paris 1909), 68.
8. A.-G. Thompson, ‘John Higginson, 1839–1904. Patriot or profiteer?’ PhD thesis, University of Queensland (Brisbane 1983).
9. C. Rollins, ‘Mineral Development and Economic Growth’, in Rhodes, op. cit., 181–204, sees institutional structures as vital in determining the likely flow on of benefits to a host country.
10. H. Bout, ‘Notes sur les mines à la Nouvelle-Calédonie’, Revue Maritime et Coloniale, 39 (1873), 442–65, despite its title deals only with gold mining which was the only one known at the time he wrote. His essay is a comprehensive and well-documented short history of the discovery of gold in New Caledonia.
11. E. Glasser, Rapport a Monsieur le Ministre des Colonies sur les richesses minérales de la Nouvelle-Calédonie (Paris 1904), 368.
12. B. Douglas, ‘A history of culture contacts in north-eastern New Caledonia 1774-1870’, PhD thesis, Australian National University (Canberra 1972). Throughout this present paper ‘Melanesians’ refers to the indigenous people of New Caledonia.
13. H. Nelson, Black, White and Gold. Gold Mining in Papua New Guinea 1878–1930 (Canberra 1976), gives a comprehensive coverage of contacts between miners or prospectors and islanders.
14. Thompson, op. cit., ch. 5.
15. Notariat 1875.
16. Journal Officiel…, loc. cit.
17. Bridon, op. cit.
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22. The Times (London), 14 Jan. 1902.
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24. Rollins, op. cit., 185.
25. Brou, op. cit., 250.
26. Ibid., 194–9.
27. On this issue see J. Reeves, The Rothschilds. Financial Rulers of Nations (London 1887).
28. R. Pinon, ‘La France des antipodes’, Revue des Deux Mondes, 158: 2 (1900), 786.
29. Denoon, ibid., 146.