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The scramble for Africa, 1876-1912 / Thomas Pakenham.

By: Material type: TextPublication details: London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1991.Description: xix, 738 pp, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illu, maps ; 26 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780297811305
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • DT28 .P17
Contents:
pt. 1. The open path -- Leopold's crusade -- Three flags across Africa -- Two steps forward -- The crouching lion -- Ismael's dream of empire -- One step backward -- Saving the Bey -- Saving the Khedive -- pt. 2. The race begins -- The race for the pool -- Head in the clouds -- Hewett shows the flag -- Why Bismarck changed his mind -- Too late? -- Welcome to a Philanthropist -- pt. 3. Rights of conquest -- Gordon's head -- The Sultan's flag -- Cries from the heart -- Dr. Emin, I presume? -- Salisbury's bargain -- An insubordinate army -- A new rand? -- Msiri's mocking smile -- The flag follows the cross -- An ivory war -- Blank treaty forms on the Niger -- A lion's share -- Rhodes, raiders and rebels -- Calling Hanotaux's bluff -- The race to the middle of nowhere -- The Mahdi's tomb -- Milner's war -- pt. 4. Resistance and reform -- The severed hands -- The Kaiser's first war -- 'Maji-Maji!' -- Redeeming the French Congo -- Restoring Britain's 'Old ideals' -- Leopold's last throw.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 695-703), and index.

pt. 1. The open path -- Leopold's crusade -- Three flags across Africa -- Two steps forward -- The crouching lion -- Ismael's dream of empire -- One step backward -- Saving the Bey -- Saving the Khedive -- pt. 2. The race begins -- The race for the pool -- Head in the clouds -- Hewett shows the flag -- Why Bismarck changed his mind -- Too late? -- Welcome to a Philanthropist -- pt. 3. Rights of conquest -- Gordon's head -- The Sultan's flag -- Cries from the heart -- Dr. Emin, I presume? -- Salisbury's bargain -- An insubordinate army -- A new rand? -- Msiri's mocking smile -- The flag follows the cross -- An ivory war -- Blank treaty forms on the Niger -- A lion's share -- Rhodes, raiders and rebels -- Calling Hanotaux's bluff -- The race to the middle of nowhere -- The Mahdi's tomb -- Milner's war -- pt. 4. Resistance and reform -- The severed hands -- The Kaiser's first war -- 'Maji-Maji!' -- Redeeming the French Congo -- Restoring Britain's 'Old ideals' -- Leopold's last throw.

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