The Fight for Zimbabwe: The History and Legacy of the British Empire’s Attempt to Establish a Colony in the 19th Century by Charles River Editors

Author:Charles River Editors
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Charles River Editors
Published: 2020-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

Since Her Majesty’s High Commissioner for South Africa was in Rhodes’ pocket, it stood to reason that Rhodes now had time to plan his advance more carefully. His first decision, in respect to the reluctance of the British government at that time to take on any extra responsibility in Africa, and also to have more personal control over events, was to proceed by way of a chartered company. The tradition of chartered companies was obviously quite established by now, most notably the East India Company and the Hudson’s Bay Company, but more recently the Royal Niger Company and the British Imperial East Africa Company had both been granted charters. Each was granted a vast territorial concession and empowered by the authority of royal charter to occupy, pacify, administer, and exploit their territories almost entirely without oversight. In the case of the East India Company, that was India, and in the case of the Hudson’s Bay Company, it was most of British North America. This model is what Rhodes had in mind.

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