TY  - BOOK
AU  - Press,Steven
TI  - Rogue Empires: Contracts and Conmen in Europe's Scramble for Africa 
SN  - 9780674971851
AV  - JV246 
U1  - 325.6 
PY  - 2017///]
CY  - Cambridge, MA : 
PB  - Harvard University Press, 
KW  - HISTORY / Africa / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - 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; Issued also in print
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674978812
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674978812
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ER  -