Cecil Rhodes and His Time by Davidson, Apollon

(Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1984) 5010018284. 8vo; original dark green cloth, lettered in silver gilt on spine and upper cover; pictorial dustwrapper; pp. 443 + (iii); illustrations in text; map. Dustwrapper very slightly edgeworn; bump to bottom fore-corner of upper board; some spotting to top edge; small tape stains to endpapers. Very good condition. "The figure of Rhodes helps one to understand a great deal about how colonialism functioned and about the psychology of people of that time. Why did Rhodes become a symbol of the largest empire in the history of mankind? Why was it Rhodes who became the idol of colonialism in the epoch of the division of the world? And what impression did his personality leave on the nature of colonialism? These are some of the questions which the book tries to answer." .