Scramble For Africa - Hardcover

Pakenham, Thomas

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0297819941 ISBN 13: 9780297819943

Verlag: W&N, 1997

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Reseña del editor:

The Scramble for Africa astonished everyone.

In 1880 most of the continent was ruled by Africans, and barely explored. By 1902, five European Powers (and one extraordinary individual) had grabbed almost the whole continent, giving themselves 30 new colonies and protectorates and 10 million square miles of new territory, and 110 million bewildered new subjects.

Thomas Pakenham¿s story of the conquest of Africa is recognised as one of the finest narrative histories of the last few decades. We are given arresting vignettes of the main players. Lord Derby, protesting at ¿this absurd scramble¿; the Belgian Emperor King Leopold II grabbing and ruthlessly exploiting the rubber deposits in the Congo; and Prince Otto von Bismarck casually munching on prawns at the Congress of Berlin while determining the fate of millions.

Biografía del autor:

Thomas Pakenham, the eldest son of Lord and Lady Longford, was educated at Ampleforth and Oxford. He divides his time between London and Ireland.

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• Verlag: W&N
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0297819941
• ISBN 13: 9780297819943
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 768