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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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2017] ©2017 |
| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (384 p.) :; 5 maps |
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Table of Contents:
- 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