@article{324261, author = {Meredith, Martin.}, url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/324261}, title = {Diamonds, gold, and war : the British, the Boers, and the making of South Africa /}, publisher = {PublicAffairs,}, abstract = {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.}, recid = {324261}, pages = {xi, 570 p., [16] p. of plates :}, address = {New York :}, year = {2007}, }