{"product_id":"9781586486419","title":"Diamonds, Gold, and War: The British, the Boers, and the Making of South Africa","description":"\u003cbr\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.”","brand":"PublicAffairs","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47047791378672,"sku":"9781586486419","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781586486419_p0.jpg?v=1763801328","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781586486419","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}