Diamonds, Gold, and War: The British, the Boers, and the Making of South Africa
Martin Meredith
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 of diamonds,
and then upon its richest deposits of gold. What followed was a titanic
struggle between the British and the Boers for control of the land,
culminating in the costliest, bloodiest, and most humiliating war that
Britain had waged in nearly a century, and in the devastation of the
Boer republics. Martin Meredith's magisterial account of those years
portrays the great wealth and raw power, the deceit, corruption, and
racism that lay behind Britain's empire-building in southern Africa.
Based on significant new research and filled with atmospheric detail, it
focuses on the fascinating rivalry between diamond titan Cecil Rhodes
and Paul Kruger, the Boer leader whose only education was the Bible, who
believed the earth was flat, yet who defied Britain's prime ministers
and generals for nearly a quarter of a century. Diamonds, Gold and War
makes palpable the cost of western greed to Africa's native peoples,
and explains the rise of the virulent Afrikaner nationalism that
eventually took hold in South Africa, with repercussions lasting nearly a
century.
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 of diamonds,
and then upon its richest deposits of gold. What followed was a titanic
struggle between the British and the Boers for control of the land,
culminating in the costliest, bloodiest, and most humiliating war that
Britain had waged in nearly a century, and in the devastation of the
Boer republics. Martin Meredith's magisterial account of those years
portrays the great wealth and raw power, the deceit, corruption, and
racism that lay behind Britain's empire-building in southern Africa.
Based on significant new research and filled with atmospheric detail, it
focuses on the fascinating rivalry between diamond titan Cecil Rhodes
and Paul Kruger, the Boer leader whose only education was the Bible, who
believed the earth was flat, yet who defied Britain's prime ministers
and generals for nearly a quarter of a century. Diamonds, Gold and War
makes palpable the cost of western greed to Africa's native peoples,
and explains the rise of the virulent Afrikaner nationalism that
eventually took hold in South Africa, with repercussions lasting nearly a
century.
श्रेणियाँ:
साल:
2007
प्रकाशन:
PublicAffairs
भाषा:
english
पृष्ठ:
592
ISBN 10:
1586486411
ISBN 13:
9781586486419
फ़ाइल:
PDF, 2.05 MB
IPFS:
,
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