Rhodes The Race for Africa
Author: Antony Thomas
Publisher: Jonathan Ball Publishers
Edition: First 1996
ISBN: 1 86842 035 3
Language: English
Condition: Good. Clean copy with tight binding
Binding: Softcover.
Pages:368. Print with images and a newspaper cutting.
Additional Information
Today the only monuments to this controversial man are the scholarships awarded at Oxford University that bear his name and a civic centre in Bishops Stortford, the place of his birth. Thomas was prompted to work on his eight-part BBC documentary by African events in 1980, when the new nation of Zimbabwe was formed out of Southern Rhodesia, sixteen years after Zambia had reverted to its new name from Northern Rhodesia. The show aired in the months after Nelson Mandela, to whom the book is dedicated, was elected President of South Africa. The Race for Africa outlines the life of a man who drew Britain into her most bloody conflict in the years between Waterloo and the First World War. Rhodes had also set in motion most of the elements which led to the apartheid regimes of the twentieth century, passing laws restricting voting rights and education to segregate the people. And yet Thomas offers an informative and lively overview on his fascinating and varied career, which came to an end at the time of the Boer War, aged 48, in 1902. Praise for Antony 'This is a true story of our times, and all times, splendidly told' - Nadine Gordimer, Nobel Laureate 'Informative, lively ... fascinating' - James Smethurst, Chicago Tribune 'A book of substance, which ought to be widely read' - Ronald Segal, The Observer 'Intelligent, detailed, well-researched and credibly nuanced' - John Carlin. , The Independent. Antony Thomas was brought up in South Africa and graduated from Cambridge University. He has achieved international recognition through his television documentaries and dramas.
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