Cecil Rhodes and His TimeProtea Book House, 2003 - 391 pàgines Davidson has eschewed the dry, academic style normally associated with works of history and in his endeavor to penetrate to the heart of Rhodes' age, to explain why this man, so ordinary in many ways, should have become the object of a veneration almost unparalleled in British history so that not only streets and towns but entire countries bore his name. |
Continguts
His road to politics | 64 |
Battle of the magnates | 77 |
Chapter 4 | 93 |
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The Making of a Racist State: British Imperialism and the Union of South ... Bernard Magubane Previsualització limitada - 1996 |
The American Predicament: Apartheid and United States Foreign Policy Azhakethu Mathew Thomas Visualització de fragments - 1997 |