The Scramble for Africa (Hardcover Book)

The Scramble for Africa: White Man's Conquest of the Dark Continent from 1876 to 1912

An account of the conquest of Africa by five European powers describes the explorers, politicians, merchants, military men, and others who subjugated Africa through commerce, Christianity, and colonialism
In scarcely half a generation during the late 1800s, six European powers sliced up Africa like a cake. The pieces went to Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Portugal and Belgium; among them, they acquired 30 new colonies and 110 million subjects. Although African rulers resisted, many battles were one-sided massacres. In 1904 the Hereros, a tribe of southwest southwest, if not a country name Africa, revolted against German rule. Their punishment was genocide--24,000 driven into the desert to starve; those who surrendered were sent to forced labor camps to be worked to death. In a dramatic, gripping chronicle, Pakenham ( The Boer War ) floodlights the "dark continent" and its system
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