Diamonds, Gold, and War : The British, the Boers, and the Making of South Africa EPUB
by Martin Meredith
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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 worlds 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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- Pages:592 pages
- Publisher:PublicAffairs
- Publication Date:23/09/2008
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- ISBN:9781586486778
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- Format:EPUB
- Pages:592 pages
- Publisher:PublicAffairs
- Publication Date:23/09/2008
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- ISBN:9781586486778