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The founder : Cecil Rhodes and the pursuit of power / / Robert I. Rotberg, with the collaboration of Miles F. Shore



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Autore: Rotberg Robert I Visualizza persona
Titolo: The founder : Cecil Rhodes and the pursuit of power / / Robert I. Rotberg, with the collaboration of Miles F. Shore Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 1988
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xxii, 800 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations
Disciplina: 968.04/092/4
Soggetto topico: Statesmen - Africa, Southern
Capitalists and financiers - Africa, Southern
Altri autori: ShoreMiles F  
Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Cover; "The Grandest Opportunities": A Preface; Contents; List of Maps; List of Illustrations; 1 "Like the Sun on a Granite Hill": The Man and the Mystery; 2 "A Very Bright Little Boy": Life in the Vicarage; 3 "I Am in Charge Here": The Cotton Fields, a Testing; 4 "Digging, Sifting, and Sorting from Morning till Night": Scraping Together the First Riches; 5 "I Think You Will Do": A Band of Brothers amid the Dreaming Spires; 6 "The Richest Community in the World": Pursuing Position and Fortune; 7 "I Don't Have Many Principles": Forging Political and Personal Alliances
Sommario/riassunto: A tall, robust-looking, imposing figure, Cecil John Rhodes was a man of many contradictions. Rhodes, the dreamy idealist, called his copy of The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius his "most precious possession," while Rhodes, the ruthless businessman, firmly believed in the adage, "every man has his price." He supported invidious racial laws in South Africa, and invented and sponsored the world-renowned Rhodes Scholarships. Although a man of unprepossessing intellectual talents, he became one of the leading figures in the English-speaking world, the confidant of Queen Victoria.
Titolo autorizzato: The founder  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-19-987920-6
1-283-12124-7
9786613121240
0-19-977034-4
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910823177203321
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