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The 28 pages that link to Cecil Rhodes, each with the reason it gives.

• British EmpireRelated: His expansionist projects exemplified late nineteenth-century empire-building in Africa.

• Scramble for AfricaRelated: His ambitions for a British-controlled route across Africa embodied the era's imperial competition.

• ImperialismRelated: His career joined private wealth, colonial administration, and expansionist ideology.

• Colonialism in AfricaBroader topic: His company and political ambitions exemplified the fusion of private wealth and imperial expansion.

• Second Boer WarRelated: Rhodes’s expansionist ambitions and the Jameson Raid helped undermine trust between Britain and the Boer republics.

• ZimbabweRelated: His name and expansionist projects became embedded in the colonial territory’s history.

• British South Africa CompanyRelated: Rhodes organized the company to extend his commercial and political influence northward.

• Jameson RaidRelated: Rhodes helped finance and organize the scheme behind the incursion.

• South African RepublicRelated: His expansionist policies and the Jameson Raid sharpened conflict with the republic.

• Jan SmutsCompared with: Rhodes’s imperial ambitions clashed with Afrikaner political interests Smuts later represented.

• Southern RhodesiaRelated: His company’s expansion laid the foundations of settler rule in the territory.

• Paul KrugerRelated: Rhodes’s expansionist policies brought him into conflict with Kruger’s republic.

• Second Matabele WarRelated: He negotiated with Ndebele leaders at the Matobo Hills in 1896.

• First Matabele WarRelated: Rhodes backed the Company’s northward expansion that culminated in the war.

• Louis BothaRelated: Rhodes’s expansionist politics formed part of the conflict Botha later fought against.

• ColonizationRelated: His political and commercial power helped extend British colonial control in southern Africa.

• CopperbeltRelated: The company’s colonial expansion helped bring Northern Rhodesia under British control.

• Bechuanaland ProtectorateRelated: His company sought control northward through Bechuanaland toward Central Africa.

• New ImperialismRelated: His career joined private investment, colonial expansion, and British strategic ambition.

• Witwatersrand Gold RushRelated: His mining interests expanded amid the gold boom, and he became central to Transvaal politics.

• University of Cape TownRelated: His legacy became the focus of a UCT student campaign over public monuments.

• First ChimurengaRelated: His company’s rule and land policies helped provoke resistance.

• History of ZimbabweRelated: His company’s territorial ambitions helped create colonial Rhodesia.

• John Atkinson HobsonRelated: Rhodes became a prominent example in Hobson’s account of commercial motives behind empire.

• W. T. SteadRelated: Stead helped shape Rhodes’s public image and was named in his political will.

• Ernest OppenheimerRelated: Rhodes founded the diamond company Oppenheimer later came to lead.

• History of BotswanaRelated: His ambitions threatened Tswana territory and helped prompt leaders to seek British protection.

• History of South AfricaRelated: His influence linked mineral wealth, settler power, and British imperial ambitions.