Rogue Empires : : Contracts and Conmen in Europe's Scramble for Africa / / Steven Press.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2017
• VerfasserIn: Press, Steven,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2017]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (384 p.) :; 5 maps
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Introduction --; 1. The Man Who Bought a Country --; 2. The Emergence of an Idea --; 3. King Leopold's Borneo --; 4. Bismarck's Borneo --; 5. The Berlin Conference --; Epilogue --; Notes --; Acknowledgments --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780674978812; 9783110540550; 9783110625264; 9783110547764; 9783110543315
• DOI: 10.4159/9780674978812
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Steven Press.

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.