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This first comprehensive biography of Cecil Rhodes in a generation
illuminates Rhodes’s vision for the expansion of imperialism in
southern Africa, connecting politics and industry to internal
development, and examines how this fueled a lasting white-dominated
colonial society.
Rhodes was one of the most influential people in the history of the
British Empire. He made a fortune by leading the world’s most important
diamond mining company, De Beers, as well as gold-mining concern
Consolidated Gold Fields. He was a member of the Cape Colony’s
legislature and served as prime minister from 1890 to 1896, a key
period for the development of racial discrimination. His British South
Africa Company was given a charter to govern what is today Zambia and
Zimbabwe.
A complex figure, admired and detested in his own time, Rhodes dreamt
to unite Southern Africa’s colonies and republics into one state,
dominated by white settlers, with labour provided by Black people who
were constrained and pressured by discriminatory laws. In 1895 and
1896, he encouraged a failed plot to overthrow the independent Boer
republic in the Transvaal.
Rhodes’ coup helped to precipitate the South African War, which started
in 1899 and ended in 1902, the year of Rhodes' death.
This authoritative biography focuses on the relationship between
Rhodes’ well-known activities in business and politics and the
development of Southern Africa's infrastructure, most famously his plan
for a Cape-to-Cairo railway. Rhodes envisioned a region where racism
became embedded in the mining, farming, communication, and
transportation industries. He pursued this vision in the face of
opposition from many quarters.
Understanding the extent of Rhodes’ activities helps us to understand
the challenges of modern Africa and the recent Rhodes Must Fall
movement. A critical analysis of this contested figure, The Colonialist
offers an original portrait of a crucial figure of his era.
Tennessee's Thirteenth Union Cavalry was a unit composed mostly of
amateur soldiers that eventually turned undisciplined boys into
seasoned fighters. At the outbreak of the Civil War, East Tennessee
was torn between its Unionist tendencies and the surrounding
Confederacy. The result was the persecution of the "home Yankees"
by Confederate sympathizers. Rather than quelling Unionist fervor,
this oppression helped East Tennessee contribute an estimated
thirty thousand troops to the North. Some of those troops joined
the "Loyal Thirteenth" in Stoneman's raid and in pursuit of
Confederate president Jefferson Davis. Join author Melanie Storie
as she recounts the harrowing narrative of an often-overlooked
piece of Civil War history.
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