Rogue Empires : Contracts and Conmen in Europe's Scramble for Africa /
Press, Steven
Rogue Empires : Contracts and Conmen in Europe's Scramble for Africa / Steven Press. - 1 online resource (384 p.) : 5 maps
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. The Man Who Bought a Country -- 2. The Emergence of an Idea -- 3. King Leopold's Borneo -- 4. Bismarck's Borneo -- 5. The Berlin Conference -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index
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In the 1880s Europeans grabbed vast swaths of the African continent, using documents, not guns, as their weapon of choice. Steven Press follows a paper trail of questionable contracts to discover the confidence men who exploited a loophole in international law to assert sovereignty over lands, and whose actions touched off the Scramble for Africa.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780674971851 9780674978812
10.4159/9780674978812 doi
HISTORY / Africa / General.
JV246
325.6
Rogue Empires : Contracts and Conmen in Europe's Scramble for Africa / Steven Press. - 1 online resource (384 p.) : 5 maps
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. The Man Who Bought a Country -- 2. The Emergence of an Idea -- 3. King Leopold's Borneo -- 4. Bismarck's Borneo -- 5. The Berlin Conference -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
In the 1880s Europeans grabbed vast swaths of the African continent, using documents, not guns, as their weapon of choice. Steven Press follows a paper trail of questionable contracts to discover the confidence men who exploited a loophole in international law to assert sovereignty over lands, and whose actions touched off the Scramble for Africa.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780674971851 9780674978812
10.4159/9780674978812 doi
HISTORY / Africa / General.
JV246
325.6