Divide and Rule: The Partition of Africa, 1880-1914The partition of Africa was one of the most spectacular episodes in modern history. For Europeans, Africa was still an unknown continent in 1880. Thirty years later almost all of it was under European control. This race for colonies went hand in hand with a host of thrilling exploits and dramatic conflicts, of which Stanley's exploration of the Congo and Gordon's death in Khartoum are just two examples. |
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... Free- town , reminds us . The French set up so - called villages de liberté ... Congo re- gion.2 Between 1858 and 1878 , when slavery was in the gradual ... Congo delta . The French and Portuguese , but also the British and Dutch , were ...
... Congo ( AIC ) , Leopold's third and last creation . Unlike its two predecessors , the AIA and the CEHC , which had been genuinely international bodies , even if mainly in theory ... Congo . " 98 The Congo and the Creation of the Free State.
... Congo Free State . Compared with the dream of a region stretching from coast to coast and from Angola to Egypt , it ... Congo , or , to put it another way , the Belgian Congo minus Katanga.113 Bismarck examined the map . " Not all that ...
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Divide and Rule: The Partition of Africa, 1880-1914 H. L. Wesseling,H. W. Wesseling No preview available - 1996 |