King Khama, Emperor Joe, and the Great White Queen Victorian Britain Through African Eyes

Name: King Khama, Emperor Joe, and the Great White Queen Victorian Britain Through African Eyes
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ISBN: 9780226647456

ISBN-10: 0226647455

ISBN-13: 9780226647456

Edition: 1997

Authors: Neil Parsons

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In 1895 three African chiefs, dressed in the finest British clothing available, began a tour of the British Isles. That tour foiled Cecil Rhodes' grand plan for Africa and culminated in the Chamberlain Settlement, the document that indirectly led to the independence of present-day Botswana. King Khama, Emperor Joe, and the Great White Queen is the story of this bizarre journey, one of the most neglected events in British Victorian history, here revealed for the first time in its full detail and cultural complexity. The chiefs initially went to England to persuade Queen Victoria not to give their lands to ruthless Rhodes and his British South Africa Company. Abandoned by the Secretary of…

Book details

List price: $29.00
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 2/3/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 340
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.276
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Preface and Acknowledgments


A Note on Terminology


Introduction: Epiphany on Clifton Bridge



Then Let Us All be Philistines



A Trinity of Dusky Kings



Another Sphere of Existence



We See You with Our Eyes



Besieged by a Curious Crowd



A Kind of Middle-Class Royalty



The Day a King Came to Enderby



They are Strong and We are Weak



The Fountain Whence Came the Missionaires



A Thing to Look at with the Teeth



In Every Town we have Found Friends



Khama Will Play the Old Gooseberry



Chamberlain's Settlement



Rhodes Beaten by Three Canting Natives



I Had No Idea She Was So Small



Dr. Jameson, You Have Got a Smooth Tongue Conclusion: Half a Loaf?


Appendix: Ballads of the 1895 Tour


Notes


Bibliography


Index