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Diamonds And War

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Author : David De Vries
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2010-04

Diamonds And War written by David De Vries and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-04 with Business & Economics categories.

Based on previously unexamined historical documents found in archives in Belgium, England, Israel, the Netherlands, and the United States, this book is the first in English to tell the story of the formation of one of the world's main strongholds of diamond production and trade in Palestine during the 1930s and 1940s. The history of the diamond-cutting industry, characterized by a long-standing Jewish presence, is discussed as a social history embedded in the international political economy of its times; the genesis of the industry in Palestine is placed on a broad continuum within the geographic and economic dislocations of Dutch, Belgian, and German diamond-cutting centers. In providing a micro-historical and interdisciplinary perspective, the story of the diamond industry in Mandate Palestine proposes a more nuanced picture of the uncritical approach to the strict boundaries of ethnic-based occupational communities.

Diamonds And War

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Author : David De Vries
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2010-04

Diamonds Gold And War

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Author : Martin Meredith
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007

Diamonds Gold And War written by Martin Meredith and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Afrikaners categories.

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.

Diamonds In Peace And War

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Author : Ingrid J. Tamm
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2002

Diamonds In Peace And War written by Ingrid J. Tamm and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Business & Economics categories.

"Diamonds in Peace and War" is the latest word on conflictdiamonds and their contribution to the wars of middle Africa. The report grew out of a conference sponsored by the World Peace Foundation, the Project on Justice, the Carr Center, and the WPF Program on Intrastate Conflict at the Kennedy School of Government in late 2001. Although theconflict diamond problem is but a small part of the much larger world-wide trade in peaceful diamonds, it is the destructive and corrosive part. Tamm places conflict diamonds within this larger context, lays out the technical issues involved, and explores all aspects of the Kimberly Process ? theunparalleled negotiating effort by industry, NGOs, and national governments that produced a standard method of differentiating clean from dirty diamonds. It also helped to produce pending U.S. legislation. Using diamonds to import arms and sponsor war is less likely now that theKimberly Process has produced a near-final agreement. "Diamonds in Peace and War" is the place to learn all about this remarkably successful initiative of conflict prevention and conflict reduction.

Diamonds Gold And War

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Author : Martin Meredith
language : en
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Release Date : 2008-09-23

Diamonds Gold And War written by Martin Meredith and has been published by PublicAffairs this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-09-23 with History categories.

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, and the devastation of the Boer republics. The New Yorker calls this magisterial account of those years “[an] astute history.… Meredith expertly shows how the exigencies of the diamond (and then gold) rush laid the foundation for apartheid.”

Blood On The Stone

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Author : Ian Smillie
language : en
Publisher: Anthem Press
Release Date : 2010-08-15

Blood On The Stone written by Ian Smillie and has been published by Anthem Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-08-15 with History categories.

Africa’s diamond wars took four million lives. ‘Blood on the Stone’ tells the story of how diamonds came to be so dangerous, describing the great diamond cartel and a dangerous pipeline leading from war-torn Africa to the glittering showrooms of Paris, London and New York. It describes the campaign that forced an industry and more than 50 governments to create a global control mechanism, and it provides a sobering prognosis on its future.

Diamonds Gold And War

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Author : Martin Meredith
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008-06-30

Diamonds Gold And War written by Martin Meredith and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-06-30 with Diamond industry and trade categories.

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.

Diamonds Gold And War The British The Boers And The Making Of South Africa

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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012

Diamonds Gold And War The British The Boers And The Making Of South Africa written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with categories.

Blood Diamonds

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Author : Greg Campbell
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2012-04-03

Blood Diamonds written by Greg Campbell and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-04-03 with History categories.

First discovered in 1930, the diamonds of Sierra Leone have funded one of the most savage rebel campaigns in modern history. These "blood diamonds" are smuggled out of West Africa and sold to legitimate diamond merchants in London, Antwerp, and New York, often with the complicity of the international diamond industry. Eventually, these very diamonds find their way into the rings and necklaces of brides and spouses the world over. Blood Diamonds is the gripping tale of how the diamond smuggling works, how the rebel war has effectively destroyed Sierra Leone and its people, and how the policies of the diamond industry - institutionalized in the 1880s by the De Beers cartel - have allowed it to happen. Award-winning journalist Greg Campbell traces the deadly trail of these diamonds, many of which are brought to the world market by fanatical enemies. These repercussions of diamond smuggling are felt far beyond the borders of the poor and war-ridden country of Sierra Leone, and the consequences of overlooking this African tragedy are both shockingly deadly and unquestionably global. Updated with a new epilogue.

Flight Of Diamonds

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Author : William H. Tyler
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1987

Flight Of Diamonds written by William H. Tyler and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987 with Broome (W.A.) categories.

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