The Founder Cecil Rhodes and the Pursuit of Power

by Rotberg, Robert I.

• ISBN13: 9780195049688
• ISBN10: 0195049683
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1988-10-20
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

The definitive biography of one of the most controversial figures of the 19th century captures a life that was complex and fascinating, evil and good. Illustrated.

Author Biography

About the Author:
Robert I. Rotberg is Academic Vice-President for Arts, Sciences, and Technology at Tufts University. A noted authority on Africa, he taught for many years at M.I.T. and Harvard. He has written numerous books about Africa, including Suffer the Future: Policy Choices in Southern Africa (1980), Black Heart: Gore-Browne and the Politics of Multiracial Zambia (1978), The Rise of Nationalism in Central Africa (1965), Joseph Thomson and the Exploration of Africa (Oxford, 1971), and Protest and Power in Black Africa (Oxford, 1970). He is himself a former Rhodes Scholar.

Table of Contents

``The Grandest Opportunities'' A Preface	vii
List of Maps	xx
List of Illustrations	xxi
``Like the Sun on a Granite Hill''
The Man and the Mystery	3	(11)
``A Very Bright Little Boy''
Life in the Vicarage	14	(22)
``I Am in Charge Here''
The Cotton Fields, a Testing	36	(19)
``Digging, Sifting, and Sorting from Morning till Night''
Scrapping Together the First Riches	55	(29)
``I Think You Will Do''
A Band of Brothers amid the Dreaming Spires	84	(24)
``The Richest Community in the World''
Pursuing Position and Fortune	108	(20)
``I Don't Have Many Principles''
Forging Political and Personal Alliances	128	(21)
``Annex Land, Not Natives''
Forestalling Bismarck and Kruger--An Imperial Prologue	149	(31)
``If Only We Have the Pluck''
Seeking Dominion over Diamonds and Gold	180	(35)
``We Are to Be the Lords over Them''
Fashioning a Distinctive Destiny as the Solitary Springbok	215	(23)
``Giving a Man the Whole of Australia''
Employing the Sinews of War in the North	238	(50)
``The Power of One Man''
A Rush of Cynicism and Conspiracy--The Acquisition of Rhodesia	288	(32)
``A Man Might Be Proud''
Assaults Across the Zambezi	320	(19)
``To Preserve the Landed Classes''
Ends and Means, The First Premiership	339	(38)
``I Must Have My Lions and Tigers''
Creating a Castle and Courting the World	377	(41)
``The Predatory Instincts of Our Race''
Making War in Rhodesia	418	(32)
``A Dominant Race Among a Native Race''
The Second Premiership	450	(38)
``Simply a Fairy Tale''
The Money Game and Other Profitable Pursuits	488	(27)
``Jameson Must Be Mad''
The Raid and Its Consequences	515	(36)
``The Eyes Are White''
The Risings and Redemption	551	(30)
``What a Man He Is!''
Across the Zambezi and Through Africa	581	(18)
``Equal Rights for Civilized Men''
The Last Hurrah and the Guns of October	599	(39)
``Sex Enters into Great Matters of State''
Of Dreams and Deeds	638	(19)
``You Like to Put Your House in Order''
The End of the Beginning	657	(22)
``A Man of Compelling Potency''
Enigma and Resolution	679	(14)
Notes	693	(61)
Select Bibliography: Rhodes, His Contemporaries, and His Times	754	(19)
Biographies of Rhodes	754	(1)
Primary Sources	755	(4)
Secondary Sources	759	(10)
Other Biographies	769	(2)
Compiled Bibliographies	771	(2)
Index	773