num_pages: 416
description: "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.
language: English
title: The Last Empire: De Beers, Diamonds, and the World
titlecomplete: The Last Empire: De Beers, Diamonds, and the World
genres: Business, Africa, History, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 97
publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux