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When Arthur Met Maggie
For a year in the 1980s Arthur Scargill and Magaret Thatcher were on opposite sides of a conflict that decided some of the most important questions in contemporary Britain--yet they never met in person. The British miners' strike of 1984-85 was central to the process of bringing traditional British politics to an end, including the end of the class war, the creation of New Labour, and the wrecking of the Conservative party. This book explores the ways in which small decisions, accidents, delays, mistakes, and premature deaths all played their part in bringing British politics to its present condition.
The Gold Crusades
Among the hordes of starry-eyed 'argonauts' who flocked to the California gold rush of 1849 was an Australian named Edward Hargraves. He left America empty-handed, only to find gold in his own backyard. The result was the great Australian rush of the 1850s, which also attracted participants from around the world. A South African named P.J. Marais was one of them. Marais too returned home in defeat - only to set in motion the diamond and gold rushes that transformed southern Africa. And so it went. Most previous historians of the gold rushes have tended to view them as acts of spontaneous nationalism. Each country likes to see its own gold rush as the one that either shaped those that followe...
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