The last empire : De Beers, diamonds, and the world

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The last empire : De Beers, diamonds, and the world

Title:

The last empire : De Beers, diamonds, and the world

Author:

Kanfer, Stefan.

ISBN:

9780374524265

Personal Author:

Kanfer, Stefan.

Edition:

Noonday Press ed.

Publication Information:

New York : Noonday Press, 1995, c1993.

Physical Description:

ix, 409 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

Corporate Subject:

Anglo American Corporation of South Africa, ltd.

Subject Term:

Diamond mines and mining -- South Africa -- History.

Mining corporations -- South Africa -- History.

Diamond industry and trade -- History.

Geographic Term:

South Africa -- History -- 1836-1909.

South Africa -- History -- 1909-1961.

South Africa -- History -- 1961-

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Library	Material Type	Item Barcode	Shelf Number	Copy	Status
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"Timely corporate history--as exciting and poignant as any good tale of derring-do against great odds by all-too-flawed giants. " - Kirkus Reviews

With a scholar's precision and a novelist's eye, Stefan Kanfer tells the inside story of De Beers Consolidated Mines - from the nineteenth century diamond rush that transformed Johannes De Beer's humble South African farm into an exotic klondike, to the Oppenheimers' shadow empire that has achieved umatched global reach.

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