Diamonds, gold, and war the British, the Boers, and the making of South Africa
A history of the tumultuous period leading up to the 1910 founding of the modern state of South Africa explores how the discovery of vast diamond and gold deposits led to a fierce struggle between the British and the Boers for control of the region
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| 300 | # | # | |a xi, 570 p., [16] p. of plates |b ill., maps |c 25 cm |
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The origins of the South African War, 1899-1902