Diamonds, Gold, and War

Diamonds, Gold, and War PDF

Author: Martin Meredith

Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com

Published: 2009-09-14

Total Pages: 430

ISBN-13: 145871876X

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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 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. 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 fi nance, and high politics that also shows the massive impact of white expansion on indigenous African societies. And it explains the rise of the virulent Afrikaner nationalism that eventually took hold, with repercussions lasting nearly a century.

Buried Diamonds, Vol. 2 of 3 (Classic Reprint)

Buried Diamonds, Vol. 2 of 3 (Classic Reprint) PDF

Author: Sarah Tytler

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-04-23

Total Pages: 318

ISBN-13: 9780331825800

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Excerpt from Buried Diamonds, Vol. 2 of 3 Well, Miss Gray, ' Susie suddenly changed her tone, like the most accomplished actress, as she took a step or two forward and greeted, in a Way the most disengaged and free from any tinge of consciousness, the dangerous person. 'i trust the nest was Worth the trouble of going in Search Of it. Do you include ornithology among the other ologies at your finger ends? How delightful for these lucky nephews and niece of mine.' About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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