| Description |
1 online resource (371 pages) : maps |
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text file PDF |
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nat Americans |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
The man who bought a country -- The emergence of an idea -- King Leopold's Borneo -- Bismarck's Borneo -- The Berlin Conference -- Epilogue : Afterlives. |
| Summary |
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.-- Provided by publisher. |
| Biography |
Steven Press is Assistant Professor of History at Stanford University and author of Rogue Empires. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Language |
In English. |
| Subject |
Berlin West Africa Conference (1884-1885 : Berlin, Germany)
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Berlin West Africa Conference. |
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Bismarck, Otto, Fürst von, 1815-1898.
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Bismarck, Otto, Fürst von, 1815-1898. |
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Gladstone, W. E. (William Ewart), 1809-1898.
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Gladstone, W. E. (William Ewart), 1809-1898. |
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Africa -- Colonization -- History.
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Africa. |
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Colonization. |
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History. |
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Europe -- Colonies -- Administration -- History.
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Europe. |
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Colonies. |
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Administration. |
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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History.
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| Added Title |
Contracts and conmen in Europe's scramble for Africa |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Press, Steven. Rogue empires. Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2017 9780674971851 (DLC) 2016044726 (OCoLC)959648706 |
| ISBN |
9780674978812 (electronic book) |
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0674978811 (electronic book) |
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9780674971851 (cloth) |
| Standard No. |
10.4159/9780674978812 |
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