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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... IMPERIALISM Britain's overseas expansion was thus a special case . It was not purely political , like that of France , nor purely economic , like that of Germany , but one that involved society at large ... Imperialism 33 British imperialism.
... Imperialism , 1880-1914 ( London 1969 ) . Hallgarten , G.W.F. , Imperialismus vor 1914 ( 2 vols . Munich 1963 ) . Headrick , D.R. , The Tools of Empire : Technology and European Imperialism in the Nineteenth Century ( Oxford 1981 ) ...
... Imperialism , 1860–1912 ( Cambridge , England 1986 ) . Edelstein , M. , Overseas Investment in the Age of High Imperialism : The United Kingdom , 1850-1914 ( London 1982 ) . Eldridge , C.C. , England's Mission : The Imperial Idea in the ...
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Divide and Rule: The Partition of Africa, 1880-1914 H. L. Wesseling,H. W. Wesseling No preview available - 1996 |