Legacy : Cecil Rhodes, the Rhodes Trust and Rhodes scholarships / Philip Ziegler.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ziegler, Philip.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rhodes scholarships.

University of Oxford--Funds and scholarships.

University of Oxford.

Rhodes Trust (Oxford, England).

Physical Description:

xi, 388 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, [2008]

Contents:

Part I The Founder 1

1 Building a Fortune 3

2 The Imperial Dream 8

3 Life after Death 13

4 Setting up the Scholarships 23

5 The Criteria 30

6 Surplus Funds 37

Part III The Age of Empire 45

7 First Arrivals 47

8 Trust and Empire 56

9 Lesser Mortals 63

10 Americans are Different 69

11 The Colonials 76

12 First Impressions 82

13 The First World War 86

14 Play Resumed 93

15 The Trust between the Wars 97

16 The Oxford Experience 104

17 Rhodes House 112

18 Money and Empire 117

19 Politics and the Scholars 125

20 New Rules for the New World 131

21 The Other Main Constituencies, 1919-1939 136

22 Small Fry and Associations 142

23 Selection, 1919-1939 149

24 Success? 155

25 Germany 161

26 The Second World War 166

27 Play Resumed Again 177

28 End of Empire 185

Part IV Post-Imperial World 191

29 South African Twilight 193

30 The Williams Years 197

31 Why No President? 205

32 The Germans Again 212

33 Women at Last 217

34 The Brotherhood 224

35 Priorities 230

36 Whom is the Fight Against? 238

37 Life after Williams 245

38 The South African War 252

39 A Passage from India 260

40 The Developing World 266

41 Clinton and After 276

42 The Old Commonwealth 285

43 South Africa Comes in from the Cold 293

44 The European Experiment 300

Part V Present and Future 305

45 Careers 307

46 New Worlds 314

47 Mandela-Rhodes 321

Appendix I Rhodes's Will 335

Appendix II Trustees and Principal Officers of the Rhodes Trust 348.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [369]-371) and index.

ISBN:

030011835X

9780300118353

OCLC:

168722811