The History Of The Rhodes Trust 1902 1999

Author : Anthony Kenny
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 632 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The History of the Rhodes Trust, 1902-1999 written by Anthony Kenny and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first comprehensive history of the Rhodes Trust, based on documentation in the relevant constituencies as well as on the archives of the Trust. At his death, the British imperialist and entrepreneur Cecil Rhodes left a substantial fortune to be administered by Trustees. In the century since his death, the Trust has funded the system of international Rhodes Scholarships set out in his will, enabling more than 6,000 scholars from over thirty countries to study at Oxford University.

Author : Christopher A Snyder
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1643131095
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gatsby's Oxford written by Christopher A Snyder and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2019-04-02 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of F. Scott Fitzgerald's creation of Jay Gatsby—war hero and Oxford man—at the beginning of the Jazz Age, when the City of Dreaming Spires attracted an astounding array of intellectuals, including the Inklings, W.B. Yeats, and T.S. Eliot. A diverse group of Americans came to Oxford in the first quarter of the twentieth century—the Jazz Age—when the Rhodes Scholar program had just begun and the Great War had enveloped much of Europe. Scott Fitzgerald created his most memorable character—Jay Gatsby—shortly after his and Zelda’s visit to Oxford. Fitzgerald’s creation is a cultural reflection of the aspirations of many Americans who came to the University of Oxford. Beginning in 1904, when the first American Rhodes Scholars arrived in Oxford, this book chronicles the experiences of Americans in Oxford through the Great War to the beginning of the Great Depression. This period is interpreted through the pages of The Great Gatsby, producing a vivid cultural history. Archival material covering Scholars who came to Oxford during Trinity Term 1919—when Jay Gatsby claims he studied at Oxford—enables the narrative to illuminate a detailed portrait of what a “historical Gatsby” would have looked like, what he would have experienced at the postwar university, and who he would have encountered around Oxford—an impressive array of artists including W.B. Yeats, Virginia Woolf, Aldous Huxley, and C.S. Lewis.

Author : William Christian
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 0978160037
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Parkin written by William Christian and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2008-09-09 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Parkin, born on a New Brunswick farm, died a knight of the realm and most famous Canadian in the world. As orator and journalist he strengthened bonds between English-speaking peoples. As principal of Upper Canada College and a founder of the Rhodes Scholarships he put formation of character above training the intellect.

Author : Paul Maylam
Publisher : New Africa Books
ISBN 13 : 9780864866844
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cult of Rhodes written by Paul Maylam and published by New Africa Books. This book was released on 2005 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cecil Rhodes is the most written about and memorialised figure in southern African history, the subject of well over 25 biographies and numerous articles. Rhodes has featured in novels, plays and films.

Author : Amanda Behm
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137548509
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Imperial History and the Global Politics of Exclusion written by Amanda Behm and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-10-24 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining the rise of the field of imperial history in Britain and wider webs of advocacy, this book demonstrates how intellectuals and politicians promoted settler colonialism, excluded the subject empire, and laid a precarious framework for decolonization. History was politics in late-nineteenth-century Britain. But the means by which influential thinkers sought to steer democracy and state development also consigned vast populations to the margins of imperial debate and policy. From the 1880s onward, politicians, intellectuals, and journalists erected a school of thought based on exclusion and deferral that segregated past and future, backwardness and civilization, validating racial discrimination in empire all while disavowing racism. These efforts, however, engendered powerful anticolonial backlash and cast a long shadow over the closing decades of imperial rule. Bringing to life the forgotten struggles which have, in effect, defined our times, Imperial History and the Global Politics of Exclusion is an important reinterpretation of the intellectual history of the British Empire.

Author : James McNeish
Publisher : Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited
ISBN 13 : 1869796624
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dance of the Peacocks written by James McNeish and published by Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The true story of five talented young men in exile in the time of Hitler and Mao Tse-Tung. 'Altogether they knew five wars, three revolutions and - in the case of Ian Milner, accused in the Cold War of being a spy - a slander.' Regarded by one critic as 'the best book published in New Zealand in the last twenty years', this is a fascinating story based on letters, diaries and interviews in several countries. It is the story of a group of Rhodes scholars, five young men - James Bertram, Geoffrey Cox, Dan Davin, Ian Milner, John Mulgan - caught up in the turmoil of their times: Spain, Hitler's Germany, Greece and North Africa, Eastern Europe, China. They left New Zealand in the thirties for 'the dreaming spires' of Oxford. War intervened. Only one returned.

Author : Robert S.G. Fletcher
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000596591
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Connected Empires, Connected Worlds written by Robert S.G. Fletcher and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-06-01 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Connected Empires, Connected Worlds: Essays in Honour of John Darwin contains diverse essays on the expansion, experience, and decline of empires. The volume is offered in honour of John Darwin’s contribution to the study of empire and its endings. Written by his former students and colleagues, the book’s chapters discuss topics from the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries. While each author has contributed according to their expertise, they also reflect on how John’s ideas and approaches continue to stimulate new work in disparate fields. Touching on the experience of empire in Europe, Africa, Asia and Australasia, the authors have engaged with concepts from across Darwin’s writings, including his earlier work on decolonisation, ‘decline’, and ‘the dynamics of territorial expansion’. As such, the work in this volume operates across a number of different scales of analysis: from case studies of transnational communities, state formation and military intervention, to imperial politics, inter-imperial comparison, and global historical frameworks. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History.

Author : Andrea Bosco
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443869996
Total Pages : 565 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Round Table Movement and the Fall of the 'Second' British Empire (1909-1919) written by Andrea Bosco and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2017-01-06 with total page 565 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In spite of the general phobia of federalism, there is a strong federalist trend within British political culture. In three very different historical contexts, federalism inspired the action of political movements such as the Imperial Federation League, the Round Table and the Federal Union. Indeed, it was regarded as the solution to problems arising from the first signs of the possible collapse of Great Britain and its Empire. The Round Table Movement played a particularly interesting role in this regard, attempting to reverse the rapid and inexorable decline of the British Empire. It was a political organisation with roots in all the major peripheries of the Empire and almost unlimited financial resources. This volume discusses the strategies and means employed by the group in order to maintain the British Empire’s global prominence. The book’s main argument is that we did not have a “British century” – the nineteenth – and an “American century” – the twentieth – but, rather, four centuries of Anglo–Saxon supremacy, which witnessed the affirmation of the national principle – expression of the Continental political tradition – and its overcoming through its opposite, the federal principle, the expression of the insular political tradition.

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004407820
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Individual in African History written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-03-31 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume investigates the development of biographical study in African history. Preceded by an introduction on the relevance of biography in history, case studies deal with methodological insights, personas living through societal transition, and biographical subjects and their discursive worlds.

Author : Mei Renyi
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443811483
Total Pages : 530 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bridging the Sino-American Divide written by Mei Renyi and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2009-05-27 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Within China, the discipline of American Studies spans a wide variety of concerns and preoccupations, reflecting its practical diversity in a transnational setting. Essays in this volume by close to forty scholars, the majority most of them based in mainland China, reflect on the past history and current teaching of American Studies within China, placing these in comparative perspectives. The nature of globalization, the transmission of ideas and practices across cultural boundaries, the formulation and meaning of identity in cross-national communications, constitute major themes in contemporary American Studies in China. For officials and commentators alike, the past, present, and future state of Sino-American relations are also an overriding preoccupation of China’s America-watchers. Overall, this collection allows the reader to sample and appreciate the state of the field of American Studies in today’s China.