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Rogue Empires : Contracts and Conmen in Europe's Scramble for Africa / Steven Press.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2017]Copyright date: ©2017Description: 1 online resource (384 p.) : 5 mapsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780674971851
  • 9780674978812
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 325.6
LOC classification:
  • JV246
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
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
Summary: 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.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9780674978812

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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Aug 2020)