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Diamonds Gold and War The British the Boers and the Making of South Africa
by [Meredith, Martin]
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Southern Africa was once regarded as a worthless jumble of British colonies, Boer republics, and African chiefdoms, a troublesome region of little interest to the outside world. But then prospectors chanced upon the world's richest deposits of diamonds and gold, setting off a titanic struggle between the British and the Boers for control of the land. The result was the costliest, bloodiest, and most humiliating war that Britain had waged in nearly a century, and the devastation of the Boer republics. The New Yorker calls this magisterial account of those years "[an] astute history.... Meredith expertly shows how the exigencies of the diamond (and then gold) rush laid the foundation for apartheid."
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- PublicAffairs Brand
- Sep 1, 2008 Pub Date:
- 9781586486419 ISBN-13:
- 1586486411 ISBN-10:
- 607.0 pages Paperback
- English Language
- 9.21 in * 1.52 in * 6.14 in Dimensions:
- 2 lb Weight:
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