Utopian fantasies of the perfected imperial prospect and fractured images of unresolved ambivalence and unsuppressed resistance : the Groote Schuur landscape considered as an imperial dream topography of Cecil John Rhodes, 1890-1929

The Groote Schuur landscape, probably more than anywhere else in South Africa, is a truly hybrid landscape. Many sets of big ideas were at play on this landscape between 1890 and 1929. At the end of the nineteenth century, Cecil Rhodes brought ideas of paternalism, imperialism and empire to the Esta...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gibson, Laura
Other Authors: Shepherd, Nick
Format: Dissertation
Language:English
Published: University of Cape Town 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/11427/3581