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Mineral Revolution

Mineral Revolution   Reference library

Christopher Saunders

The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World

Reference type:
Subject Reference
Current Version:
2008
Subject:
History, Contemporary History (post 1945)
Length:
1,161 words
Historians of South Africa refer to the major economic advance of the late nineteenth century as the mineral revolution because the discovery of first diamonds and then gold transformed ... More

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