Diamonds, Gold, and War: The British, the Boers, and the Making of South Africa by Martin Meredith

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

Martin Meredith

570 pages • first pub 2007 (view editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced
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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 first upon the world's richest deposits ...

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