Bibliograph

Rogue empires, contracts and conmen in Europe's scramble for Africa, Steven Press

Type

Label

Rogue empires, contracts and conmen in Europe's scramble for Africa, Steven Press

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Illustrations

maps

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Rogue empires

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

bibliographydictionaries

Oclc number

979560299

Responsibility statement

Steven Press

Series statement

JSTOR eBooks

Sub title

contracts and conmen in Europe's scramble for Africa

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.--, Provided by Publisher

Table Of Contents

The man who bought a country -- The emergence of an idea -- King Leopold's Borneo -- Bismarck's Borneo -- Epilogue: "A great act of folly"

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