The Pakenham, Thomas1933-creatortextbibliographyHistory.enkLondonWeidenfeld & Nicolson1991monographiceng

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xix, 738 pp, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illu, maps ; 26 cmpt. 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.Thomas Pakenham.Includes bibliographical references (pages 695-703), and index.f------e------ To 1999 fast ColonizationAfricaHistory1884-1918AfricaHistoryTo 1884AfricaColonizationHistory19th centuryAfricaColonizationHistory20th centuryEuropeColoniesAfricaHistory19th centuryEuropeColoniesAfricaHistory20th centuryAfriqueHistoire1884-1918AfriqueHistoireJusqu'�a 1884AfricaAfricaHistory, 1450-1960DT28 .P179780297811305UKM91101520240718135142.0ocm24735988 eng