{"product_id":"diamonds-gold-and-war-the-british-the-boers-and-the-making-of-south-africa-9781586486419","title":"Diamonds, Gold, and War: The British, the Boers, and the Making of South Africa","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Martin Meredith\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: PublicAffairs\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: PublicAffairs\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Africa - South - Republic of South Africa\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSouthern 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. \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"PublicAffairs","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45355992907927,"sku":"9781586486419","price":2238.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781586486419.webp?v=1767309210","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/diamonds-gold-and-war-the-british-the-boers-and-the-making-of-south-africa-9781586486419","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}