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Diamonds, Gold, and War. The British, the Boers, and the Making of South Africa
by Meredith, Martin
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 1586484737
- ISBN 13
- 9781586484736
- Seller
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Port Elizabeth, South Africa
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About This Item
(New York: Public Affairs, 2007) 9781586484736. 8vo; papered boards, lettered in gilt on spine; laminated pictorial dustwrapper; endpaper map; pp. (xviii) + 570, incl. index; plates. Dustwrapper ever so slightly rubbed; trace of spotting to top edge. Very good condition. "Southern Africa had once been regarded as a worthless jumble of British colonies, Boer republics, and African chiefdoms, a troublesome region of little interest to the outside world. But in 1871, prospectors exploring a remote stretch of sun-scorched scrubland chanced upon the world's richest deposits of diamonds. Fifteen years later, an itinerant digger stumbled across the rocky outcrop of gold-bearing reef on a highveld ridge known as the Witwatersrand. Beneath lay the richest deposits of gold ever discovered. What followed was a titanic struggle between the British and the Boers for control of the region. It culminated in the costliest, bloodiest, and most humiliating war that Britain had waged in nearly a century, and left the Boer republics devastated. The Anglo-Boer War played as important a part in the making of modern South Africa as did the Civil War in the development of the United States. ... In this gripping history of the turbulent years leading up to the founding of the modern state of South Africa in 1910, Martin Meredith portrays the great wealth and raw power, the deceit, corruption, and racism that lay behind Britain's empire-building in southern Africa. Diamonds, Gold, and War is a tale of high adventure, high finance, and high politics." .
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- Bookseller
- Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA (ZA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 8221
- Title
- Diamonds, Gold, and War. The British, the Boers, and the Making of South Africa
- Author
- Meredith, Martin
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 1586484737
- ISBN 13
- 9781586484736
- Publisher
- (New York: Public Affairs, 2007) 9781586484736
- Place of Publication
- New York
- This edition first published
- October 2007
- Keywords
- Cecil John Rhodes. Paul Kruger. Second Anglo-Boer War. Military History. Imperialism. British Empire. Afrikaner Nationalism. Apartheid South African History
- Bookseller catalogs
- South African History;
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Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA
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Port Elizabeth
About Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA
Christison Rare Books operates as a mail order business, based in Port Elizabeth. We are members of IOBA and SABDA. Whereas we stock thousands of books on a wide variety of subjects, our focus has always been on SE Africa - its peoples, wildlife and history. The store is managed by Lindsay Christison. Although we do not run an open book shop, prospective customers who would like to examine items described in our on-line list of stock are welcome to make an appointment.
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