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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... sultan's possessions on the mainland . While their company would have all the rights normally enjoyed by a colonial administration , the sultan would share in the profits . Though that meant a considerable loss of prestige for him , the ...
... sultan to recognize the German protectorate over Peters's territories , which the ob- durate sultan claimed as his own . On 7 August 1885 five German gunboats dropped anchor in the roads off Zanzibar . That was enough . On 20 Sep ...
... sultan . After a few days of complicated discus- sions , Mulay Hafid , the former rival sultan who had in the meantime been recognized as sultan , resigned himself to the inevitable and on 30 March 1912 signed the Treaty of Fez . He ...
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Divide and Rule: The Partition of Africa, 1880-1914 H. L. Wesseling,H. W. Wesseling No preview available - 1996 |