TY  - BOOK
AU  - Stefan Kanfer
TI  - The Last Empire
SN  - 9780374524265
AV  - DT1888 
U1  - 968 
PB  - Macmillan
KW  - Business
KW  - African History
N2  - "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
ER  -