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

Name: Diamonds, Gold, and War The British, the Boers, and the Making of South Africa
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ISBN: 9781586486419

ISBN-10: 1586486411

ISBN-13: 9781586486419

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Authors: Martin Meredith

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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…

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List price: $25.99
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Publication date: 9/23/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 592
Size: 6.13" wide x 9.25" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 1.518



Map


Author's Note


Introduction






Diamond Fever



Blue Ground



Kimberley



The Diggers' Revolt



Enter the Magnates






The Imperial Factor



Oom Paul



The Washing of Spears



Majuba






The Diamond Bubble



The Stripping Clause



Dreams and Fantasies



The Road to the North



The German Spectre



The Most Powerful Company in the World






A Chosen People



Johannesburg



The Corner House



A Marriage of Convenience






The Place of Slaughter



The Balance of Africa



To Ophir Direct



Kruger's Protectorate






Groote Schuur



A Bill for Africa



Not for Posterity



The Loot Committee






A Tale of Two Towns



The Randlords



The Rhodes Conspiracy



Jameson's Raid



Missing Telegrams



By Right of Conquest






The Richest Spot on Earth



Nemesis



The Great Game



The Drumbeat for War



Ultimatums






The Fortunes of War



Marching to Pretoria



Scorched Earth



The Bitter End



Envoi






The Sunnyside Strategy



Vukani Bantu!



The Black Ordinance



The Sphinx Problem


Epilogue


Chapter Notes


Select Bibliography


Index