Diamonds Gold And War The British The Boers And The Making Of South Africa
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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.”
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 History 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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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012
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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.
Beyond Gold And Diamonds
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Author : Melissa Free
language : en
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Release Date : 2021-03-01
Beyond Gold And Diamonds written by Melissa Free and has been published by State University of New York Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-03-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
Beyond Gold and Diamonds demonstrates the importance of southern Africa to British literature from the 1880s to the 1920s, from the rise of the systematic exploitation of the region's mineral wealth to the aftermath of World War I. It focuses on fiction by the colonial-born Olive Schreiner, southern Africa's first literary celebrity, as well as by H. Rider Haggard, Gertrude Page, and John Buchan, its most influential authorial informants, British authors who spent significant time in the region and wrote about it as insiders. Tracing the ways in which generic innovation enabled these writers to negotiate cultural and political concerns through a uniquely British South African lens, Melissa Free argues that British South African literature constitutes a distinct field, one that overlaps with but also exists apart from both a national South African literary tradition and a tradition of South African literature in English. The various genres that British South African novelists introduced—the New Woman novel, the female colonial romance, the Rhodesian settler romance, and the modern spy thriller—anticipated metropolitan literary developments while consolidating Britain's sense of its own dominion in a time of increasing opposition.
Fuelling The Empire
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Author : John J. Stephens
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2003-06-13
Fuelling The Empire written by John J. Stephens and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-06-13 with Business & Economics categories.
What makes a country go to war? At what stage in that sequence of events, of action and reaction, bluff and brinkmanship does war become unavoidable? The South African War was the first large-scale human tragedy of the twentieth century - the prelude to a century that was to be characterised by such large-scale and avoidable tragedy. The cost in human, environmental and financial terms was colossal. Approximately 60,000 men women and children were killed from countries that not only included Britain and South Africa, but also France, the USA, Australia, New Zealand and Canada. Moreover, the peace terms that allowed for the continuation of discriminatory racial policies set the stage for a century of racial inequality and strife in South Africa. In this incisive work, South African author, John Stephens, considers the slide to a war that nobody wanted. This is a story of the shaping of South Africa. It is also a universal story: one of pride, greed and fear - of humans behaving in a very human way.
An Economic History Of South Africa
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Author : C. H. Feinstein
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2005-06-23
An Economic History Of South Africa written by C. H. Feinstein and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-06-23 with Business & Economics categories.
This book examines five hundred years of South African economic history.
Boer War Illustrated
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Author : Thomas Pakenham
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1993
Boer War Illustrated written by Thomas Pakenham and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with South African War, 1899-1902 categories.
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
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Author : Walter Rodney
language : en
Publisher: Verso Books
Release Date : 2018-11-27
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa written by Walter Rodney and has been published by Verso Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-11-27 with History categories.
The classic work of political, economic, and historical analysis, powerfully introduced by Angela Davis In his short life, the Guyanese intellectual Walter Rodney emerged as one of the leading thinkers and activists of the anticolonial revolution, leading movements in North America, South America, the African continent, and the Caribbean. In each locale, Rodney found himself a lightning rod for working class Black Power. His deportation catalyzed 20th century Jamaica's most significant rebellion, the 1968 Rodney riots, and his scholarship trained a generation how to think politics at an international scale. In 1980, shortly after founding of the Working People's Alliance in Guyana, the 38-year-old Rodney would be assassinated. In his magnum opus, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, Rodney incisively argues that grasping "the great divergence" between the west and the rest can only be explained as the exploitation of the latter by the former. This meticulously researched analysis of the abiding repercussions of European colonialism on the continent of Africa has not only informed decades of scholarship and activism, it remains an indispensable study for grasping global inequality today.
The Defence Of Duffer S Drift
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Author : E. D. Swinton
language : en
Publisher: Good Press
Release Date : 2019-11-19
The Defence Of Duffer S Drift written by E. D. Swinton and has been published by Good Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-11-19 with Science categories.
The Defence of Duffer's Drift is a concise story by Ernest Dunlop Swinton. Lieutenant Backsight Forethought and his rule of fifty soldiers are given the task to uphold Duffer's Drift, a natural crossing to a tactically important river.