Blood on the stone

Smillie, Ian.

Blood on the stone greed, corruption and war in the global diamond trade / [electronic resource] : Ian Smillie. - London ; New York : Anthem Press, 2010. - xiv, 237 p.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Of judgement and cunning work : dirty diamonds -- The river of big returns : geology and history -- De Beers : the delicate equipoise -- Strange plumbing : the diamond pipeline -- Angola : another distracting sideshow -- Liberia and the love of liberty -- Sierra Leone : diamonds in the RUF -- President Mobutu's ghost -- Enter Al Qaeda -- Boiling frogs : companies in hot water -- Ice storm : the NGO campaign -- Kimberley : a hope in hell -- Endgames.


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.






Diamond industry and trade--Africa.
Conflict diamonds--Africa.
Political corruption--Africa.


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