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

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Southern Africa used to be once considered a worthless jumble of British colonies, Boer republics, and African chiefdoms, a troublesome region of little interest to the outdoor world. But then prospectors chanced upon the sector’s richest deposits of diamonds and gold, setting off a titanic struggle between the British and the Boers for keep an eye on of the land. The end result used to be the most costly, 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 the ones years “[an] astute history.… Meredith expertly shows how the exigencies of the diamond (after which gold) rush laid the basis for apartheid.”

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