The Scramble for Africa

by Chamberlain,M. E.

• ISBN13: 9781408220146
• ISBN10: 1408220148
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-06-10
• Publisher: ROUTLEDGE

Summary

A timely update of Chamberlain'sScramble for Africa,the first book ever to be published on the subject. Fully updated and revised, and now in the new Seminar Studies in History format. The only accessible one-volume book on the subject Contains Glossary, Chronology, and other reader friendly features Valuable primary source material included in the Documents section

Author Biography

M.E. Chamberlain is Professor Emeritus at Swansea University.

Table of Contents

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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