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Diamonds, Gold, and War : The British, the Boers, and the Making of South Africa
Overview
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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Details
- ISBN-13: 9781586486419
- ISBN-10: 1586486411
- Publisher: PublicAffairs
- Publish Date: September 2008
- Dimensions: 9.25 x 6.22 x 1.66 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.69 pounds
- Page Count: 592
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