Download or read book Cecil Rhodes written by John Marlowe and published by Sterling/Main Street. This book was released on 1972 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cecil Rhodes was both hero and victim of the British imperialism which flourished during the last three decades of the nineteenth century. He left a land bearing his name, university scholarships and the memory of an ideal, once commonly held, which has become a part of history. This book describes Rhodes' career from Bishop's Stortford and Oxford to Africa, his premiership of the Cape and his fall.