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PublisherPublic Affairs
ISBN-101586484737
ISBN-139781586484736
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Product Key Features
Book TitleDiamonds, Gold, and War : the British, the Boers, and the Making of South Africa
Number of Pages608 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicAfrica / South / Republic of South Africa
Publication Year2007
IllustratorYes
GenreHistory
AuthorMartin Meredith
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.8 in
Item Weight31.4 Oz
Item Length9.3 in
Item Width6.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2007-034540
SynopsisSouthern 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 first upon the world's richest deposits of diamonds, and then upon its richest deposits of gold. What followed was a titanic struggle between the British and the Boers for control of the land, culminating in the costliest, bloodiest, and most humiliating war that Britain had waged in nearly a century, and in the devastation of the Boer republics. Martin Meredith's magisterial account of those years portrays the great wealth and raw power, the deceit, corruption, and racism that lay behind Britain's empire-building in southern Africa. Based on significant new research and filled with atmospheric detail, it focuses on the fascinating rivalry between diamond titan Cecil Rhodes and Paul Kruger, the Boer leader whose only education was the Bible, who believed the earth was flat, yet who defied Britain's prime ministers and generals for nearly a quarter of a century. Diamonds, Gold and War makes palpable the cost of western greed to Africa's native peoples, and explains the rise of the virulent Afrikaner nationalism that eventually took hold in South Africa, with repercussions lasting nearly a century., From the author of The Fate of Africa : A vivid, gripping history of the turbulent years leading up to the founding of the modern state of South Africa in 1910
LC Classification NumberDT1894
