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Rhodes and Rhodesia : the white conquest of Zimbabwe, 1884-1902 by Arthur Keppel-Jones is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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<p>The British South Africa Company and the irregularity of its financial and political operations are dealt with in detail. Keppel-Jones also discusses the development in the midst of the indigenous population of an alien white society and state, from their crude beginnings to their emergence in a form still recognizable today. The reader is led to conclude that by 1902 Southern Rhodesia was already set on the road that would lead to the upheavals of the second half of the twentieth-century. The author examines the racial consciousness and prejudice of the white society and addresses an important question: why did the imperial government grant a royal charter to the BSA Company? The facts show conclusively that the imperial government had little interest in Central Africa or care for its fate except when foreign competition appeared. Keppel-Jones also reveals the important role played by black troops employed by the Company in suppressing the rebellions of 1896-7. For opposite reasons, neither blacks nor whites have been willing to recognize this; on the other hand the habit of the 'men-on-the-spot' of making and carrying out decisions without regard to their superiors in London i
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- Author
- Arthur Keppel-Jones
- Publisher
- ACP - McGill Queen's University Press
- Published
- 1983
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780773561038
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- History, Biography, Memoir