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Diamonds, Gold, and War: The British, the Boers, and the Making of South Africa
Martin Meredith
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| #97497 in Books | PublicAffairs | 2008-09-23 | 2008-09-23 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.25 x1.50 x6.13l,1.69 | File type: PDF | 592 pages | ||8 of 8 people found the following review helpful.| Reads Like a Soap Opera Script!|By Stanley|Well, if not a soap opera then certainly like a real life film noir. Martin Meredith's book really has no good guys. The Boers come off as a bunch of ignorant hicks, the Brits are characterized as arrogant and money grubbing as well as conniving, the tribes come off as given to raiding, kidnapping, and makers of really bad deals. As||"Despite the depth of scholarly research it contains, this book reads not as dry history but as a vivid and thrilling account of the forging of southern Africa into its present distinctive shape and character. Martin Meredith captures the colours and textures
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, a...
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