The scramble for Africa, 1876-1912
by Thomas Pakenham · 19 Nov 1991 · 1,194pp · 371,889 words
Contents Praise for The Scramble for Africa About the Author By the same author: Copyright List of Illustrations Cartoons and engravings List of Maps Dedication Introduction Prologue The Crowning Achievement Ilala, Central
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and after Epilogue Scrambling Out Zimbabwe, Africa and Europe 18 April 1980, before and after Illustrations Chronology Sources Select Bibliography Notes Index Praise for The Scramble for Africa ‘Vast, scholarly and delightful’ Spectator ‘Pakenham tells the story with pace and compulsive readability … no historian could hope for a more wonderful subject, and Pakenham
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help to heal this open sore of the world.’ David Livingstone’s last words inlaid in brass on his tomb in Westminster Abbey Introduction The Scramble for Africa bewildered everyone, from the humblest African peasant to the master statesmen of the age, Lord Salisbury and Prince Bismarck. Ever since Roman times, Europe had
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my wife Valerie for sharing my ten-year trip down the rapids, modelling herself on Katharine Hepburn in The African Queen. Note: The term ‘The Scramble for Africa’ was apparently coined in 1884. Modern historians have not agreed exactly what period it should cover. I have used it to embrace the whole final
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ally in the man who, for the next decade, would do more than anyone else to see that Britain got her rightful share in the Scramble for Africa. This was Percy Anderson, head of the newly-created African Department in the Foreign Office, and brilliant (in a blinkered kind of way). Hewett reported
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himself on his insight into Stanley’s character and capacity for hero-worship. A lesser man, a less patient player at this great game, the Scramble for Africa, would have dismissed Stanley, but Leopold had kept him in reserve till exactly the moment when he would prove most useful. And here was the
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, 1963 Ashe, Robert, Two Kings of Uganda, 1889 Chronicles of Uganda, 1894 Autin, Jean, Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza, Paris, 1985 Axelson, E., Portugal and the Scramble for Africa, Johannesburg, 1967 Aydelotte, W. O., Bismark and British Colonial Policy etc., Philadelphia, 1937 Banning, E., Mémoires Politiques et Diplomatiques, Paris/Brussels, 1927 Baratier, A. E
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Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza and the Establishment of French Imperialism in the Congo, 1875–1885, Aberdeen University, 1981 Oliver, R., Sir Henry Johnston and the Scramble for Africa, 1957 The Missionary Factor in East Africa, 1952; (2nd edn.), 1965 Oliver, R. and Mathew, G. (eds.), History of East Africa, 1, Oxford, 1963 Oliver
The Elements of Power: A Story of War, Technology, and the Dirtiest Supply Chain on Earth
by Nicolas Niarchos · 20 Jan 2026 · 654pp · 170,150 words
IN TEXT the first written instance: Herbert, Red Gold of Africa, 23. GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT When the German explorers: Thomas Pakenham, The Scramble for Africa, 1876–1912 (Random House, 1991), 400. GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT Msiri’s empire was known: David Van Reybrouck, Congo: The Epic History of
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John B. Goodenough. “Phospho-Olivines as Positive-Electrode Materials for Rechargeable Lithium Batteries.” Journal of the Electrochemical Society 144, no. 4 (1997). Pakenham, Thomas. The Scramble for Africa, 1876–1912. Random House, 1991. People’s Liberation Army of China. The Politics of the Chinese Red Army. Edited by James Chester Cheng. Hoover Institution
Winds of Change
by Peter Hennessy · 27 Aug 2019 · 891pp · 220,950 words
of the empire of free trade, rather than territory, which dominated what Ronald Robinson and Jack Gallagher called the ‘official mind’ of imperialism before the ‘Scramble for Africa’ in the late nineteenth century.15 On top of this modified version of ‘the imperialism of free trade’16 lay the ever-pressing perspective of
Poisoned Wells: The Dirty Politics of African Oil
by Nicholas Shaxson · 20 Mar 2007
like how some Americans today believe they should spread freedom and democracy overseas. The French had something similar, described in Thomas Pakenham’s classic The Scramble for Africa: Overseas empire would soothe the amour-propre of the French army, humiliated by its collapse in the Franco-Prussian war.4 . . . A whiff of colonial
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widely reported from, the Elf trials. See, for example, Karl Laske, “La pompe Afrique: Tours de passe-passe,” Libération, January 13, 2003. Thomas Pakenham, The Scramble for Africa, (London: Abacus, 1992) page xxiv. Ibid., page 358. Ibid., page 359. Ibid., page 154. From a BBC chronology, February 27, 2004. From Adam Hochschild’s
Africa: A Biography of the Continent
by John Reader · 5 Nov 1998 · 1,072pp · 297,437 words
. 14, pp. 12 – 13 Galbraith, J.S., 1963, Reluctant Empire, Berkeley, Calif., University of California Press Galbraith, John S., 1971, ‘Gordon, MacKinnon, and Leopold: the scramble for Africa 1876 – 84’, Vict. Stud., vol. 14, pp. 369 – 88 Galenson, David W., 1986, Traders, Planters, and Slaves. Market Behaviour in Early English America, Cambridge, Cambridge
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Gregory, J. W., Cordell, D.D., and Gervais, R., (eds.), 1984, African Historical Demography, Edinburgh, African Studies Centre, University of Edinburgh Griffiths, Ieuan, 1986, ‘The scramble for Africa: inherited political boundaries’, Geogr. J., vol. 152, pp. 204 – 16 Grigson, C., 1989, ‘Size and sex: evidence for domestication of cattle in the Near East
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, 1937, Cambridge, Hakluyt Society (Ser. II, vol. 79) Page, Melvin E., (ed.), 1987, Africa and the First World War, London, Macmillan Pakenham, Thomas, 1991, The Scramble for Africa, London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson Park, Mungo, 1813, Travels to the Interior of Africa, London Parker, I.S. C., and Graham, A.D., 1989, ‘Elephant decline: downward
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by Russell Napier · 19 Jul 2021 · 511pp · 151,359 words
we have discovered since the Asian financial crisis, a fact that has major political ramifications. One hundred years after Fashoda 28 July 1998, Regional The scramble for Africa bewildered everyone, from the humblest African peasant to the master statesmen of the age, Lord Salisbury and Prince Bismarck … Africa was sliced up like a
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in Africa? Anglo-French rivalry explains a great deal – but not enough. Historians are as puzzled now as the politicians were then. Thomas Pakenham, The Scramble for Africa, 1991 A memorable peace conference, as it was a memorable conflict, no longer of individuals engaged in a race for accumulation, but of grouped monopolistic
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much supply/not enough demand) environment. In that environment, the capitalists’ scramble for Asian capacity can be seen as perhaps as inexplicable as the politicians’ scramble for Africa at the turn of the last century. At its most mystifying peak (17 September to 4 December 1898), the French and English armies stood facing
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. The point was the British had to be there because the French were there, and vice versa. That was the dynamic which drove the political scramble for Africa, and it is a similar logic among capitalists which is driving the scramble for Asia. You may not think that it’s rational, and there
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by Jan Morris · 22 Dec 2010 · 699pp · 192,704 words
OF THE TASMANIANS: The obliteration of a subject race. 24. THE REBEL PRINCE:: Charles Stewart Parnell. 25. THE MARTYR OF EMPIRE: Charles George Gordon. 26. SCRAMBLE FOR AFRICA: Coarsening the imperial idea. 27. AN IMPERIAL FULFILMENT: Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee, triumphant Britain and a suggestion of the Last Day. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS INDEX About the
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Speke was right, Burton was wrong: but before we leave this, the central saga of exploration in the imperial age, and the beginning of the ‘scramble for Africa’ which was to give a new style to imperialism, let us go back to Bath again, in 1864, and take our leave of the original
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weeks of reverent pilgrimage he ventured to ask his father a question. ‘Who is the man,’ he inquired, ‘on Gordon’s back?’ CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX Scramble for Africa IN the last week of December, 1895, a curious military force was assembled at a place called Pitsani, in the Bechuanaland Protectorate just across the
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was the New Imperialism, a craze of fin-de-siècle. Backed by its truculent exuberance, the British Empire had embarked upon its climactic enterprise, the scramble for Africa, of which the Jameson Raid was to be at once the epitome and the disillusionment. 2 Empires were fashionable everywhere now. There was little moral
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Powers—for African potentates not uncommonly ceded their territories to several European contenders at the same time.1 The Berlin Conference gave legitimacy to the scramble for Africa. It did not control the process, but it recognized the reality of this new Great Game, and made it internationally respectable, more or less. At
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its tents, ridden away from the kopjes and crossed the unmarked frontier into the Transvaal Republic 6 The Jameson Raid was the summation of the scramble for Africa, and a turning-point in the story of the British Empire. It was like a poor parody of the imperial process. It was underhand, it
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carried a phial of poison in his pocket in case he was suddenly struck with an incurable illness, disclaimed all such ambitions, and regarded the scramble for Africa as ‘a game of chess’. 1 Which Rhodes never set eyes on. 2 Rhodes was not the first to foresee a British Cape-to-Cairo
Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East
by Scott Anderson · 5 Aug 2013
adroitly played off against one another for centuries—Germany was suddenly becoming an empire in its own right. Despite being a latecomer in the European “scramble for Africa,” by the mid-1880s it had established colonies in western, southern, and eastern Africa; in a fit of grandiosity, it even planted its flag in
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Stengers. Clarendon Press. Oxford. Nzongola-Ntalaja, Georges. (2002). The Congo: From Léopold to Kabila: A People’s History. Zed Books. London. Pakenham, Thomas. (1992). The Scramble for Africa. HarperCollins. New York. Stanley, Henry M. (1885). The Congo and the Founding of Its Free State: A Story of Work and Exploration, 2 vols. Harper
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