Author: Muriel Evelyn Chamberlain Publisher: Seminar Studies in History Release Date: 1999 Book Size: 41.63 MB Book Format: PDF, ePub, Mobi Category : History Languages : en Pages : 144 View: 5565
by Muriel Evelyn Chamberlain, The Scramble For Africa Books available in Docs, PDF, EPUB, Mobi, Textbook, Kindle Format. Download The Scramble For Africa book, Uses case histories from Egypt to Zimbabwe to explore the European conquest and partition of Africa, contrasting the Victorian image of Africa with the results of twentieth-century research on the history of the continent.
Author: Thomas Pakenham Publisher: Hachette UK Release Date: 2015-09-24 Book Size: 61.80 MB Book Format: PDF Category : History Languages : en Pages : 768 View: 2411
by Thomas Pakenham, The Scramble For Africa Books available in Docs, PDF, EPUB, Mobi, Textbook, Kindle Format. Download The Scramble For Africa book, 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.
Author: M. E. Chamberlain Publisher: Routledge Release Date: 2014-01-14 Book Size: 54.24 MB Book Format: PDF, ePub, Docs Category : History Languages : en Pages : 208 View: 5559
by M. E. Chamberlain, The Scramble For Africa Books available in Docs, PDF, EPUB, Mobi, Textbook, Kindle Format. Download The Scramble For Africa book, In 1870 barely one tenth of Africa was under European control. By 1914 only about one tenth – Abyssinia (Ethiopia) and Liberia – was not. This book offers a clear and concise account of the ‘scramble’ or ‘race’ for Africa, the period of around 20 years during which European powers carved up the continent with little or no consultation of its inhabitants. In her classic overview, M.E. Chamberlain: Contrasts the Victorian image of Africa with what we now know of African civilisation and history Examines in detail case histories from Egypt to Zimbabwe Argues that the history and background of Africa are as important as European politics and diplomacy in understanding the 'scramble' Considers the historiography of the topic, taking into account Marxist and anti-Marxist, financial, economic, political and strategic theories of European imperialism This indispensible introduction, now in a fully updated third edition, provides the most accessible survey of the ‘scramble for Africa’ currently available. The new edition includes primary source material unpublished elsewhere, new illustrations and additional pedagogical features. It is the perfect starting point for any study of this period in African history.
Author: Publisher: Macmillan International Higher Education Release Date: 1987-11-11 Book Size: 52.22 MB Book Format: PDF Category : Languages : en Pages : 144 View: 271
Author: Michael A. Rutz Publisher: Hackett Publishing Release Date: 2018-03-01 Book Size: 46.21 MB Book Format: PDF, ePub Category : History Languages : en Pages : 136 View: 6431
by Michael A. Rutz, King Leopold S Congo And The Scramble For Africa Books available in Docs, PDF, EPUB, Mobi, Textbook, Kindle Format. Download King Leopold S Congo And The Scramble For Africa book, "King Leopold of Belgium's exploits up the Congo River in the 1880s were central to the European partitioning of the African continent. The Congo Free State, Leopold's private colony, was a unique political construct that opened the door to the savage exploitation of the Congo's natural and human resources by international corporations. The resulting 'red rubber' scandal—which laid bare a fundamental contradiction between the European propagation of free labor and 'civilization' and colonial governments' acceptance of violence and coercion for productivity's sake—haunted all imperial powers in Africa. Featuring a clever introduction and judicious collection of documents, Michael Rutz's book neatly captures the drama of one king's quest to build an empire in Central Africa—a quest that began in the name of anti-slavery and free trade and ended in the brutal exploitation of human lives. This volume is an excellent starting point for anyone interested in the history of colonial rule in Africa." —Jelmer Vos, University of Glasgow
by Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, 1888 1900 The Scramble For Africa Books available in Docs, PDF, EPUB, Mobi, Textbook, Kindle Format. Download 1888 1900 The Scramble For Africa book,
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Author: Giuseppe Maria Finaldi Publisher: Peter Lang Release Date: 2009 Book Size: 37.67 MB Book Format: PDF, ePub Category : History Languages : en Pages : 348 View: 6061
by Giuseppe Maria Finaldi, Italian National Identity In The Scramble For Africa Books available in Docs, PDF, EPUB, Mobi, Textbook, Kindle Format. Download Italian National Identity In The Scramble For Africa book, Italy's First African War (1880-1896) pitted a young and ambitious European nation against the ancient Empire of Ethiopia. The Least of Europe's Great Powers rashly assailed Africa's most formidable military power. The outcome was humiliating defeat for Italy and the survival, uniquely for any African nation in the years of the European Scramble for that continent, of Ethiopian independence. Notwithstanding Italy's disastrous first experience in the colonial fray, this book argues that the impact of the war went well beyond the battlefields of the Ethiopian highlands and reached into the minds of the Italian people at home. Through a detailed and exhaustive study of Italian popular culture, this book asks how far the First African War impacted on the Italian nation-building project and how far Italians were themselves changed by undergoing the experience of war and defeat in East Africa. Finaldi argues, for the first time in historiography on the subject, that there was substantial support for and awareness of Italy's military campaign and that 'Empire', as has come to be regarded as fundamental in the histories of other European countries, needs to be brought firmly into the mainstream of Italian national history. This book is an essential contribution to debates on the relationship between European national identity and culture and imperialism in the late 19th century.
Author: Roland Anthony Oliver Publisher: Release Date: 1958 Book Size: 50.81 MB Book Format: PDF, Docs Category : Africa Languages : en Pages : 368 View: 3873
by Roland Anthony Oliver, Sir Harry Johnston The Scramble For Africa Books available in Docs, PDF, EPUB, Mobi, Textbook, Kindle Format. Download Sir Harry Johnston The Scramble For Africa book,
Author: John C. Wilkinson Publisher: Equinox Release Date: 2014-10-31 Book Size: 41.91 MB Book Format: PDF Category : History Languages : en Pages : 496 View: 4243
by John C. Wilkinson, The Arabs And The Scramble For Africa Books available in Docs, PDF, EPUB, Mobi, Textbook, Kindle Format. Download The Arabs And The Scramble For Africa book, This book examines the history of the European Scramble for Africa from the perspective of the Omanis and other Arabs in East Africa. It will be of interest not only to African specialists, but also those working on the Middle East, where awareness is now emerging that the history of those settled on the southern peripheries of Arabia has been intimately entwined with Indian Ocean maritime activities since pre-Islamic times. The nineteenth century, however, saw these maritime borderlands being increasingly drawn into a new world economy, one of whose effects was the development of an ivory front in the interior of the continent that, by the 1850s, led the Omanis and Swahili to establish themselves on the Upper Congo. A reconstruction of their history and their interaction with Europeans is a major theme of this book. European colonial rivalries in Africa is not a subject in vogue today, while the Arabs are still largely viewed as invaders and slavers. The fact that the British separated the Sultanates of Muscat and Zanzibar is reflected in European research so that historians have little grasp of the geographic, tribal and religious continuum that persisted between overseas empire and the Omani homeland. Ibadism is regarded as irrelevant to the mainstream of Islamic religious protest whereas, during the lead up to establishing direct colonial rule, its ideology played a significant role; even the final rally against the Belgians in the Congo was conducted in the name of an Imam al-Muslimin. Back home, the fallout from the British massacre that crushed the last Arab attempt to reassert independence in Zanzibar was an important contributory cause towards the re-founding of an Imamate that survived until the mid-1950s.
Author: Roger Louis Publisher: I.B.Tauris Release Date: 2006 Book Size: 66.62 MB Book Format: PDF, Mobi Category : History Languages : en Pages : 1065 View: 7150
by Roger Louis, The Ends Of British Imperialism Books available in Docs, PDF, EPUB, Mobi, Textbook, Kindle Format. Download The Ends Of British Imperialism book, Published to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the Suez Crisis, this work traces the British Empire from the scramble for Africa, through the Mandates system of 'sacred trust', the turbulent imperial history of the Second World War in Asia, and to the unstoppable mid-20th century rush to independence.