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Diamonds, Gold, and War.(Brief article)(Book review)
In 1879, Viscount Wolseley, a British general sent to what later became South Africa, wrote, "These Transvaal Boers are the only white race I know of that has been steadily going back towards barbarism." But, in the decades after the discovery of diamonds in the region, neither the British nor the Boers had a monopoly on barbarism--what with the racial millenarianism of Paul Kruger, the mercenary imperialism of Cecil Rhodes, and the venality of officials ...
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