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Historical person

Cecil Rhodes

1853–1902

Cecil Rhodes was a British mining magnate and colonial politician whose companies and political ambitions transformed southern Africa.

Rhodes consolidated much of the Kimberley diamond industry, served as prime minister of the Cape Colony and used the British South Africa Company to extend British-controlled settlement north of the Limpopo. His policies were central to dispossession, company rule and the creation of Rhodesia. Wilbur Smith’s Men of Men places this figure within the commercial and colonial expansion of late nineteenth-century southern Africa.

Series

Historical novels and book series featuring Cecil Rhodes (1 series)

Non Fiction

Non Fiction featuring Cecil Rhodes (2 books)

Biographies, histories and other non-fiction are listed separately from the historical novels above.