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Title: Diamonds, Gold, and War: The British, the Boers, and the Making of South Africa
Author: Martin Meredith
ISBN: 9781586486419
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Published: 2008
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Number of Pages: 607
Publisher Description: 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. <i>The New Yorker</i> 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."
Author: Martin Meredith
ISBN: 9781586486419
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Published: 2008
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Number of Pages: 607
Publisher Description: 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. <i>The New Yorker</i> 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."
