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