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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Cecil John Rhodes"”.
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THE IMPERIALISM OF CECIL JOHN RHODES: METROPOLITAN PERCEPTIONS OF A COLONIAL REPUTATION
Cecil John Rhodes, the British mining-magnate, politician, and empire builder, epitomised the dynamism and controversy of late-nineteenth century imperialism. In his time he was regarded as a towering figure of the age, not only in Britain and its colonial empire, but throughout the world. He cast …
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The administration of Cecil John Rhodes as prime minister of the Cape Colony, 1890-1896
In his monograph, Sir Thomas Fuller divides Rhodes's public policy under three heads - the expansion of the Cape Colony; the federation, or, as it was frequently called, the union of South African States; and the Government of the Cape Colony itself when he became its Premier. Any such divisions …
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Utopian fantasies of the perfected imperial prospect and fractured images of unresolved ambivalence and unsuppressed resistance : the Groote Schuur landscape considered as an imperial dream topography of Cecil John Rhodes, 1890-1929
… and 1929. At the end of the nineteenth century, Cecil Rhodes brought ideas of paternalism, imperialism and empire to the Estate and notions of creating a European space in Africa; Groote Schuur would be a meeting point where Africa and Europe would fuse in the same frame, where the wildness of …
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Site specificity as the decolonial model : an interpretive study of the Groote Schuur Menagerie
… Groote Schuur Menagerie, commonly known as the 'Rhodes' Zoo', is located next to the University of Cape Town on the foothills of Table Mountain. A deserted display of historical relics, this site can be seen as a tangible and perceived symbol of colonisation. Despite not being a focus of the …
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Bandaríki Suður - Afríku : draumur eða tálsýn
… ekki hægt að komast hjá því að ræða hvaða áhrif Cecil John Rhodes hafði á mótun þessa heimshluta. Stöðu þessara landa í dag ber ég saman við kenningar og stefnu hans og hvort þau stæðu betur í dag sem eitt, sameinað ríki. Engar afdráttarlausar niðurstöður er hægt að draga fram um það hvort þessi …
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Gone with the shining things
… only attracted the famous mining barons such as Cecil John Rhodes, Alfred Beit and Barney Barnato: working men also came from far and wide to feed their families with their labour. Among them was my great-grandfather, the miner from the Isle of Man, William Cogeen. He arrived via the tin mines of …
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Memorialising White Supremacy: The Politics of Statue Removal: A Comparative Case Study of the Rhodes Statue at the University of Cape Town and the Lee Statue in Charlottesville, Virginia
In April 2015, the bronze statue of Cecil John Rhodes- notorious mining magnate, archimperialist and champion of a global Anglo-Saxon empire- was removed from its concrete plinth overlooking Cape Town, South Africa. This came as a result of the #RhodesMustFall (#RMF) movement, a movement that would …
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Methodism and public life in Zimbabwe : an analysis of the Wesleyan Methodist Church in Zimbabwe's impact on politics from 1891-1980
… study traced Wesleyan Methodist political praxis John Wesley, the founder of Methodism and interpreted his teaching and practice from a third world perspective. That perspective was used as a basis for evaluating the contextualisation of his teaching by Wesleyan Methodists in Zimbabwe. The …