Scramble For Africa

Pakenham, Thomas

£15.99

*the full-scale story of the nineteenth-century imperial invasion of Africa

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Publish Date: 26/11/1992
ISBN: 9780349104492 Category: Tag:

Description

In 1880 the continent of Africa was largely unexplored by Europeans. Less than thirty years later, only Liberia and Ethiopia remained unconquered by them. The rest – 10 million square miles with 110 million bewildered new subjects – had been carved up by five European powers (and one extraordinary individual) in the name of Commerce, Christianity, ‘Civilization’ and Conquest. The Scramble for Africa is the first full-scale study of that extraordinary episode in history.