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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... CENTURY The British Empire originated in the New World , during the seventeenth century , but lost its American colonies again quite quickly , beginning with the United States in the eighteenth century . Shortly before , however , the ...
... century Britain did not go through an essentially anti- imperialist period . The whole century was one of expansion , an " imperial century . " British society was the most dynamic of all in the nineteenth century , or at least until ...
... century Morocco was overrun by the Arabs , who subju- gated the indigenous Berbers and intermingled with them . Morocco thus became part of the Arab world and once even held pride of place in it , Fez being a noted center of Arabian ...
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Divide and Rule: The Partition of Africa, 1880-1914 H. L. Wesseling,H. W. Wesseling No preview available - 1996 |