Diamonds, Gold, and War.(Brief article)(Book review)

Publication: The New Yorker

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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...

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