The last empire: DeBeers, diamonds, and the world
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Farrar, Straus Giroux
1993
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| Beschreibung: | IX, 409 S. |
| ISBN: | 0374152071 |
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| adam_text | THE LAST
EMPIRE
DE BEERS, DIAMONDS, AND
THE WORLD
STEFAN
KANFER
FARRAR STRAUS GIROUX
NEW YORK
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION Mere Carbon, After All 3
PART ONE ROMANCING THE STONE 13
1 A Focus of Human Passion 15
2 Deeper into the Earth 35
3 The Boy-Men 53
4 We Had Better Join Hands 67
5 A Vehicle for Plunder 81
6 Vanity and Depravity 97
7 Lying in State 115
8 Exit Rhodes, Enter Hoggenheimer 139
PART TWO SPERO OPTIMA 157
9 The Spectre, the Scam, and Satyagraha 159
10 Monkeying About with the Capital 176
11 A Side Entrance to De Beers 192
12 The Death of Hope 208
13 Cleaving a Diamond with a Butter Knife 225
14 Getting Away with It 242
15 Crowning the New King 259
PART THREE CONNOISSEUR OF CHAOS 279
16 A Nasty Sort of Survival 281
17 Funigalo and Flash Fred 296
18 Under Anglo Every One 312
19 Boiler Room Follies 329
20 But Never Jam Today 343
21 The Most Dangerous Age 357
NOTES 375
INDEX 395
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