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The Partition of Africa
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Artikel-Nr:
9781108072038
Veröffentl:
2014
Einband:
Paperback
Erscheinungsdatum:
04.11.2014
Seiten:
624
Autor:
John Scott Keltie
Gewicht:
868 g
Format:
216x140x36 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
This revised 1895 second edition illuminates the nineteenth-century struggle among European powers to secure control over the African continent.
Preface; 1. The Africa of the ancients; 2. The Islamic invasion; 3. The Portuguese circumnavigations; 4. Portugal in possession; 5. The beginning of rivalry; 6. Stagnation and slavery; 7. The position in 1815; 8. Sixty years of preparation; 9. Preliminaries to partition; 10. France and Portugal on the Congo; 11. British advances in the south and east; 12. Germany enters the field; 13. Germany in the Cameroons; 14. The Berlin Conference and the Congo Free State; 15. German East Africa; 16. The struggle for the Niger; 17. German progress in West Africa; 18. British East Africa; 19. The Italian sphere and the Egyptian Sudan; 20. British Central and South Africa; 21. African islands; 22. The economic value of Africa; 23. Conclusion; Appendices; Index.