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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... problem be- setting European diplomacy at the time , namely , the eastern question . The problem , framed in contemporary terms , was " how to manage the decline of the Ottoman Empire . " It kept cropping up at regular intervals and ...
... problem was that that body was more of a philanthropic and political association than a commercial enterprise . This one - horse company , as Rosebery called it , owned little capital and , because its commercial prospects looked bad ...
... problem , as it set a southern limit to French expansion in the Sudan . The French discovered a solution to that problem , however , as simple as it was sensible . They argued that the con- vention had indeed set a limit to French ...
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Divide and Rule: The Partition of Africa, 1880-1914 H. L. Wesseling,H. W. Wesseling No preview available - 1996 |