What is included with this book?
Acknowledgements | p. x |
Publisher's acknowledgements | p. xi |
Chronology | p. xii |
Who's who | p. xix |
Glossary | p. xxxiv |
Maps | p. xxxviii |
The Problem | p. 1 |
Introduction | p. 3 |
The African Background | p. 5 |
Environmental factors | p. 6 |
Egypt | p. 9 |
Islam | p. 10 |
The slave trade | p. 14 |
Southern Africa | p. 14 |
The Victorian Image of Africa | p. 17 |
The influence of the slave trade | p. 18 |
Eighteenth century scientific interest | p. 19 |
Slave trade versus legitimate trade | p. 21 |
'Backward' Africa | p. 22 |
The missionaries | p. 24 |
Exploration and its consequences | p. 25 |
Analysis | p. 31 |
The British Occupation of Egypt, 1882 | p. 33 |
The Suez Canal | p. 35 |
Financial problems | p. 36 |
Military action begins | p. 40 |
The debate begins | p. 42 |
West Africa | p. 44 |
Quarrels with the Ashanti | p. 45 |
The challenge from the French | p. 47 |
The Niger | p. 48 |
King Leopold of the Belgians intervenes | p. 50 |
Portugal's claims | p. 51 |
The Berlin West Africa conference | p. 53 |
The Royal Niger Company | p. 54 |
The German challenge | p. 56 |
The Great Depression | p. 59 |
East Africa | p. 61 |
A new Australia | p. 62 |
The German challenge | p. 63 |
Strategy versus commerce | p. 64 |
South Africa | p. 69 |
The role of the Boers | p. 70 |
Bechuanaland | p. 72 |
Gold and diamonds | p. 73 |
'Rhodesia' | p. 73 |
Fashoda and the Anglo-French Agreements of 1904 | p. 79 |
Fashoda | p. 81 |
The 1904 agreements | p. 83 |
Assessment | p. 85 |
Conclusion | p. 87 |
Britain: Conservative and Liberal opinion | p. 87 |
Continental opinion too was divided | p. 88 |
The debate begins in earnest | p. 89 |
Lenin takes a hand | p. 90 |
The role of Africans | p. 94 |
Documents | p. 97 |
David Livingstone: humanitarian | p. 98 |
Commerce | p. 98 |
Africa as El Dorado | p. 99 |
Darkest Africa: fully developed racism | p. 100 |
Stanley's antipathy | p. 101 |
Suez Canal | p. 102 |
The Egyptian finances: Stephen Cave's report | p. 103 |
Divided opinions | p. 105 |
Egypt in international diplomacy | p. 107 |
Death of Gordon at Khartoum | p. 109 |
The desire to abandon responsibilities | p. 110 |
The fears of British traders | p. 111 |
The British government's reaction | p. 113 |
The Berlin West Africa conference lays down the 'rules' for the scramble | p. 114 |
The Royal Niger Company | p. 115 |
The Great Depression | p. 118 |
The mixture of economic and strategic arguments | p. 119 |
The 'little Englanders' stand on Uganda | p. 121 |
Cecil Rhodes | p. 122 |
The Rudd Concession | p. 123 |
The Colonial Office's doubts about the legality of the British South Africa Company's position | p. 124 |
The Fashoda incident | p. 125 |
The Anglo-French agreements of April 1904 | p. 127 |
J.A. Hobson | p. 128 |
V.I. Lenin | p. 129 |
Lord Cromer | p. 129 |
A modern rejection of traditional explanations of the partition | p. 130 |
Was the whole phenomenon economic after all? | p. 131 |
Appendix: European Colonial Background | p. 132 |
Guide to Further Reading | p. 136 |
References | p. 146 |
Index | p. 148 |
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