The Scramble For Africa by Thomas Pakenham
A vivid narrative history of the late-19th-century European rush to colonize Africa, detailing the diplomatic maneuvering, rivalries and the Berlin Conference that formalized the continent’s partition; it profiles the politicians, explorers, soldiers and businessmen who carved out empires, examines African resistance and the humanitarian and economic arguments used to justify conquest, and traces the political and social consequences that reshaped both Africa and Europe.
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- 1991
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- Irish
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- English
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