Rogue Empires - Contracts and Conmen in Europes Scramble for Africa

Informationen zum Autor Steven Press is Assistant Professor of History at Stanford University and author of Rogue Empires . Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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.

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• Authors: Steven Press, Press Steven
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.04.2017
• EAN: 9780674971851
• ISBN: 978-0-674-97185-1
• No. of pages: 384
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, European History, HISTORY / Europe / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, HISTORY / Africa / General, HISTORY / Modern / 19th Century, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Imperialism, Colonialism & imperialism, African History