The Scramble for Africa
The Scramble for Africa by Thomas Pakenham
English | January 1, 1991 | ISBN: 0297811304, 0349104492 | True EPUB | 400 pages | 19.6 MB
English | January 1, 1991 | ISBN: 0297811304, 0349104492 | True EPUB | 400 pages | 19.6 MB
In 1880 the continent of Africa was largely unexplored by Europeans. Less than thirty years later, only Liberia and Ethiopia remained unconquered by them.
The rest - 10 million square miles with 110 million bewildered new subjects - had been carved up by five European powers (and one extraordinary individual) in the name of Commerce, Christianity, ‘Civilization’ and Conquest.
The Scramble for Africa is the first full-scale study of that extraordinary episode in history.