Diamonds, Gold and War: The Making of South Africa - Hardcover

Meredith, Martin

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0743286189 ISBN 13: 9780743286183

Verlag: Simon & Schuster Ltd, 2007

Inhaltsangabe

Physical description; xi, 570 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., map, ports. ; 25 cm. Subjects; Gold industry - South Africa - History - 19th century. Diamond industry and trade - South Africa - History - 19th century.

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Reseña del editor:

The prize was great -- not just land, but the riches it held, in the form of diamonds and gold. What became a country called South Africa was, until 1910, a vast and untamed land where great fortunes could be made (and lost); where great battles were fought (and lost); and where great men had their reputations forged, or dashed, or sometimes both. Martin Meredith's follow-up to his magisterial The State of Africa is an equally epic new history of the making of South Africa. Covering the extraordinarily eventful four decades leading up to the establishment of the Union of South Africa in 1910, it covers some of the most iconic tales of imperial history. The Zulus at Rorke's Drift; the Jameson Raid; the diamond and gold rushes at Kimberley and Witwatersrand; the Boer wars; the titanic struggle between the arch-imperialist Cecil Rhodes and his Boer rival, Paul Kruger -- DIAMONDS, GOLD AND WAR brings all of these and more together in a stunningly coherent and compelling narrative. History, somehow, just isn't as colourful any more.

Biografía del autor:

Martin Meredith is the author of many acclaimed books on Africa including lives of Robert Mugabe and Nelson Mandela and COMING TO TERMS: SOUTH AFRICA'S SEARCH FOR TRUTH. He lives near Oxford.

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• Verlag: Simon & Schuster Ltd
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0743286189
• ISBN 13: 9780743286183
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 592