Overview
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.”
The book, Diamonds, Gold, and War: The British, the Boers, and the Making of South Africa [Bulk, Wholesale, Quantity] ISBN#9781586486419 in Paperback by Martin Meredith may be ordered in bulk quantities. Minimum starts at 25 copies. Availability based on publisher status and quantity being ordered.
Details
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
09/23/2008
ISBN-10:
1586486411
ISBN-13:
9781586486419
Pages:
592
Publisher:
PublicAffairs
