Capitalism in the Colonies

Name: Capitalism in the Colonies | African Merchants in Lagos, 1851-1931
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African Merchants in Lagos, 1851-1931

A. G. Hopkins(Autor*in)

Princeton University Press

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Erschienen am 16. Juli 2024

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Cover
Contents
List of Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgements
Orthography, Currency Values, and Weights
Abbreviations
Prologue: A Gunboat for Christmas, 1851
Chapter 1: The Global Meets the Local
The Revival of Economic History
Port Cities in History
The Colonial Port City
Entrepreneurship in a Colonial Context
The Entrepreneurs of Lagos
Cases and Sources
Three Shocks
Signposts
Part I: The Shock of 1851
Chapter 2: Creating a Cosmopolitan Frontier, 1851-1880
The Expansion of Legitimate Commerce
Business Uncertainty under the Consulate
Founding a New Colony
Settling In: The Town and Its Inhabitants
The Saro Draw Lines in the Sand
The New Order Established
Chapter 3: The Mercantile Community
The New Commercial Environment
Property Becomes Big Business
Winners and Losers
Men of the Marina
Taking Stock
Chapter 4: Chief Daniel Taiwo and His Network
Becoming a Lagosian
From Kosoko to Glover
'The Head of All the Markets in the Colony'
Business and Politics
The Closing Years
Conclusion
Chapter 5: James Davies, King of the Merchant Princes
A Saro Story-With Royal Connections
Davies and Taiwo: An Unexpected Alliance
From the Heights to the Depths
Returning to Business
Halfway
Part II: The Shock of 1892
Chapter 6: Crisis and Transition, 1880-1900
The Commercial Outlook
Business Uncertainty under the Colony
Expanding the Colony
The Commercial Consequences of Colonial Expansion
The Port and Its People
Reverberations
Chapter 7: The Mercantile Community
The Consequences of the Invasion of Yorubaland
Failure and Success
The End of a Golden Age
'Decline' in Context
Chapter 8: Merchants as Money Lenders: Richard Blaize and Isaac Williams
Context
Richard Beale Blaize: Beginnings
Diversification: Property and Money Lending
A Family Man
Newspapers and Politics
Blaize's Legacy
Isaac Benjamin Williams: Early Life
The Import Trade
Property, Mortgages, and Rentals
Family and Church
Two Lives Compared
Chapter 9: James Davies: The First of the Cocoa Farmers
Acquiring Woodland Estate
Developing the Estate in the 1880s
The Estate Farm Book, 1896-1899
Ijon as a Centre of Innovation
Output and Profits
Final Years
A Full Life
Chapter 10: The Changing Economic Environment, 1900-1914
Commercial Expansion and Colonial Development Policy
The New Commercial Environment
Institutional Innovation
Political Aspects of Entrepreneurial Motivation
The Port and Its Inhabitants
The Consequences of the Second Shock
Chapter 11: Accommodation and Diversification
Mercantile Fortunes
Accommodating Colonial Rule
Diversifying the Economy
Pioneers of Mechanisation
Financial Innovation
Bouncing Back
Chapter 12: Negotiating Colonial Rule: Josiah Doherty and Samuel Pearse
The Doherty Family: Beginnings
Josiah Doherty Founds His Own Business
Feeling the Strain, 1914-1928
The Man in the Merchant
Samuel Pearse: The Great Survivor
Calabar and the Ivory Boom
The War and Its Aftermath
Final Years
Two Kinds of Success
Chapter 13: Jacob Coker and the New Farming Frontier at Agege
From Commerce to Farming
The Agege Plantation Complex
The Farming Community
The Agege Planters' Union
Costs and Benefits
From Davies to Coker
Part III: The Shock of 1914
Chapter 14: War and Its Consequences
The Fortunes of War
The Changing Commercial Environment
Boom and Bust
The Mercantile Community
Co-operation and Innovation
The Outcome
Chapter 15: Peter Thomas: From Meteor to Falling Star
The Making of a Civil Servant
From Government Official to Merchant
The Exigencies of War
Life at the Top
The Long Descent
The Final Phase
A Vision Postponed
Chapter 16: A Conclusion, a Conundrum, and a Speculation
Conclusion: Capitalists and the Spread of Capitalism
Conundrum: The Missing Years
Speculation: Development in the Long Run
Epilogue: Congestion for Christmas, 2022
Appendix: Lagos Entrepreneurs, 1851-1931
Sources
Index

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