Rogue empires : contracts and conmen in Europe's scramble for Africa
Steven Press
Bok Engelsk 2017
| Utgitt | Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press , 2017
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| Omfang | 371 sider
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| Opplysninger | The man who bought a country -- The emergence of an idea -- King Leopold's Borneo -- Bismarck's Borneo -- Epilogue: "A great act of folly".. - Rogue Empires takes a new look at the origins and consequences of a key moment in European History: the Berlin Conference of 1884-1885. Drawing on archival research conducted in ten countries and three languages, the book argues that the flood of rogue empires in Africa came about due to a short-lived European obsession with events happening far away, in Southeast Asia. European investors there had recently promoted an idea of buying empires through "private" purchases of sovereignty: full control over a place's resources and people, with neither monitoring by third parties, nor any accountability to a nation, nor, in most cases, the awareness of affected indigenous peoples. Once this idea made its way back around the world to European capitals, it inspired a number of important figures, notably German chancellor Otto von Bismarck and British Prime Minister William Gladstone, to support a string of copycat ventures in Sub-Saharan Africa.--
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| Geografisk emneord | Africa - Colonization - History. . - Europe - Colonies - Administration - History. . - Afrika : (NO-TrBIB)HUME01540
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| ISBN | 9780674971851
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