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Michael Ledger-Lomas: Ruthless Cecil Rhodes, 23 October 2025

The Colonialist: The Vision of Cecil Rhodes 
by William KelleherStorey.
Oxford, 528 pp., £30.99, July, 978 0 19 981135 9Show More
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“... of whether Rhodes was justified in his obsession with ‘expansion’ has long gone stale. William KelleherStorey’s new Life turns our attention from Rhodes the visionary to the ruthless coloniser, who often pitted himself against imperial officialdom and its watery idealism. He is interested mainly in the ...”

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