The Colonialist: The vision of Cecil Rhodes
Oxford University Press, £30.99 hb, 528 pp
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Very few people – apart from royalty – have had countries named after them. But the coinage ‘Rhodesia’ was being used a few years after the white military force Pioneer Column moved into Zimbabwe in 1890. For Cecil Rhodes was truly a colossus, punningly named after one of the ancient Seven Wonders of the World. A famous Punch cartoon has him bestriding the map of Africa, one foot on Cape Town and the other on Cairo, linked by a telegraph line hanging from his outstretched arms.
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The Colonialist: The vision of Cecil Rhodes
by William Kelleher Storey
Oxford University Press, £30.99 hb, 528 pp
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