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| 100 | 1 | _aStefan Kanfer | |
| 245 | 1 | _aThe Last Empire | |
| 260 | _bMacmillan | ||
| 300 | _a416 pages | ||
| 520 | _a"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. | ||
| 650 | _aBusiness | ||
| 650 | _aAfrican History | ||
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