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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... Rodd put it , " as little more than an exceptionally enlightened savage . " . " 54 In fact , however , Menelik was an extremely skilled diplomat , a man of near Bismarckian qualities . His first great move on the diplomatic chessboard ...
... Rodd , J. R. , 244 Rohlfs , Friedrich Gerhard , 143 Rosebery , Lord Archibald Philip Prim- rose : foreign policy of , 163-64 , 234 ; profile of , 162-63 Rothschild , Lord , 291 Rouvier , Maurice , 98 , 199 , 350 Rowe , Sir Samuel , 183 ...
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Divide and Rule: The Partition of Africa, 1880-1914 H. L. Wesseling,H. W. Wesseling No preview available - 1996 |