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Diamonds, Gold, and War: The British, the Boers, and the Making of South Africa

Diamonds, Gold, and War: The British, the Boers, and the Making of South Africa

Meredith, Martin

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African HistoryBritish HistoryOther Wars

ISBN10: 1586486411
ISBN13: 9781586486419
Publisher: Publicaffairs
Published: Sep 1 2008
Pages: 592
Weight: 1.69
Height: 1.66 Width: 6.22 Depth: 9.25
Language: English
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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