{"product_id":"b0052umumo","title":"Diamonds, Gold, and War: The British, the Boers, and the Making of South Africa","description":"\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe 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.”\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ANT","offers":[{"title":"Ebook","offer_id":52821291008216,"sku":"YSL39416","price":7.79,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0835\/3356\/2072\/files\/81_ZRspqT4L._SY1500.jpg?v=1793104107","url":"https:\/\/www.bookmebay.com\/products\/b0052umumo","provider":"BookMebay","version":"1.0","type":"link"}