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Diamonds, Gold, and War: The British, the Boers, and the Making of South Africa
Martin Meredith
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| #100761 in Books | PublicAffairs | 2008-09-23 | 2008-09-23 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.25 x1.50 x6.13l,1.69 | File type: PDF | 592 pages | ||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| South Africa before apartheid|By B. Smith|I found this a fascinating history of South Africa in the pre-Apartheid era when the Brits and Africaners and indigenous people were competing for influence and territory. I learned a lot about some major characters in SA history and about its gold and diamond industries. Very readable too.|0 of 0 people found the following review hel||"Despite the depth of scholarly research it contains, this book reads not as dry history but as a vivid and thrilling account of the forging of southern Africa into its present distinctive shape and character. Martin Meredith captures the colours and textures
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, a...
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