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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Dinosaurs, diamonds and democracy
    sub title: a short, short history of South Africa
  name:
    name part: Wilson, Francis
    name part: 1939-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: sa
    date issued: 2017
    edition: Updated third edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 142 pages : illustrations (some color), maps, portraits ; 16 cm.
  abstract: An asteroid the size of Table Mountain crashed into what was to become South Africa over two billion years ago, marking the spot. The country's history since then has always been robust and full of energy. This book takes you in record time from that moment, when the earth's richest gold reefs were shaped, to the advent of democracy in 1994, another event that stunned the world. Along the way you will encounter some of the most ancient dinosaurs on record, the very first people on the planet, and the first cultures. You will see outsiders moving in to reshape history, hunters and gatherers, cultivators and herders, iron-workers from the north and immigrants from Europe and Asia. They fought and made peace, they stumbled upon gold and diamonds, they rose to the heights of excellence and sunk to the depths of oppression, until on one day they all queued as equals to elect a government. That is the story marked by dinosaurs, diamonds and democracy.
  note: Francis Wilson.
  note: Includes index.
  subject:
    geographic code: f-sa---
  subject:
    geographic: South Africa
    topic: History
  classification: 968
  identifier: 1415207240
  identifier: 9781415207246
  record info:
    record content source: YDXCP
    record creation date: 150622
    record change date: 20200722090913.0
    record identifier: in00003815148