The Scramble for Africa

by Chamberlain, M.E.

• ISBN13: 9780582368811
• ISBN10: 0582368812
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-04-13
• Publisher: Pearson

Summary

This is the first major revision of this key Seminar Study which was originally published in 1974. The book contrasts the Victorian image of Africa with what has been revealed by late twentieth-century research on the history of Africa. Professor Chamberlain uses case histories from Egypt to Zimbabwe to examine the European partition and conquest of the continent. For the new edition she brings up-to-date the historiography of the explanations offered for the phenomenon, Euro-centric or 'peripheral', economic, political or strategic. Revised, reset and reissued in the larger format now established for the series, the new edition is sure to be welcomed by a new generation of students.

Table of Contents

An Introduction to the Series	vi
Note on Referencing System	vii
List of Maps	viii
Acknowledgements to First Edition	ix
Acknowledgements to Second Edition	x
PART ONE: THE BACKGROUND	1	(27)
The African background	1	(14)
The Victorian image of Africa	15	(13)
PART TWO: ANALYSIS	28	(56)
The British occupation of Egypt, 1882	28	(12)
West Africa	40	(18)
East Africa	58	(9)
South Africa	67	(10)
Fashoda and the Anglo-French agreements of 1904	77	(7)
PART THREE: ASSESSMENT	84	(10)
Conclusion	84	(10)
PART FOUR: DOCUMENTS	94	(32)
Bibliography	126	(11)
Index	137