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Capital and Labour on the Kimberley Diamond Fields, 1871-1890
Based on new documentary sources, this history of diamond mining in Kimberley is a major study of South Africa's mineral revolution and the formation of De Beers Consolidated Mines, one of the most successful African mining companies.
The Diamond Mines of South Africa
First published in 1902, this work describes the discovery and development of diamond mines in South Africa.
Refracted Economies
"Since the beginning of the twenty-first century, diamonds have been lauded as a "glistening" driver of the northern Canadian economy. Canadian diamonds are cast with an imagined purity as though they had emerged by magic. However, these diamonds are mined on Dene land, extracted by people who fly in from afar, separated from their families for long periods of time. Adopting a decolonizing and feminist approach to political economy, Refracted Economies analyses the impact of diamond mining in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories. The book centres Indigenous women's social reproduction labour--both at the mine sites and at sites of community, home, and care--as a means of understanding the diff...
South African Mines
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The Diamond Magnates
Dating from the discovery of diamonds in a remote part of the Cape in the mid-19th century, this is a history of the men, who, with varying motives, struggled to gain control of the industry - Cecil Rhodes, and others.
