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- Author: Martin Meredith
- Publisher: PublicAffairs
- Year: 2008
- Pages: 592
- ISBN-10: 1586486411
- ISBN-13: 9781586486419
- Format: 15.8 x 23.5 x 4.2 cm, minkšti viršeliai
- Language: English
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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 apartheid."
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- Author: Martin Meredith
- Publisher: PublicAffairs
- Year: 2008
- Pages: 592
- ISBN-10: 1586486411
- ISBN-13: 9781586486419
- Format: 15.8 x 23.5 x 4.2 cm, minkšti viršeliai
- Language: English English
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."
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