Author: Pakenham, Thomas.
Title: The Scramble for Africa 1876-1912.
Description: Abacus 2011 reprint. 738pp illustrated paperback. No inscriptions, A sound VG copy. ISBN: 9780349104492 Tells the story of the European 'gold rush' on Africa when a period of only 30 years saw the continent divvied out to the five major European players. "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".

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