Diamonds, Gold, and War: The British, the Boers, and the Making of South Africa
Paperback 592 pages English September 23, 2008
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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."
- Author:
- Martin Meredith
- Publisher:
- PublicAffairs
- Publication Date:
- September 23, 2008
- Number of pages:
- 592 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Paperback
- ISBN-10:
- 1586486411
- ISBN-13:
- 9781586486419