The Scramble For Africa

Non-Fiction, History & Politics, African History

Thomas Pakenham (author)

Paperback Published on: 26/11/1992

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Synopsis

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.

Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
ISBN: 9780349104492
Number of pages: 768
Weight: 660g
Dimensions: 197 x 130 x 51 mm

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