The Scramble for Africa

by Pakenham, Thomas

• ISBN13: 9780380719990
• ISBN10: 0380719991
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publications

Summary

White Man's Conquest of the Dark Continent from 1876 to 1912

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	xv
Cartoons and Engravings	xvii
List of Maps	xix
Introduction	xxi
Prologue The Crowning Achievement	1	(8)
Ilala, Central Africa 21 April--May 1873 and after
PART I: THE OPEN PATH	9	(132)
Leopold's Crusade	11	(13)
Brussels 7 January--15 September 1876
Three Flags Across Africa	24	(16)
Central Africa and Europe 14 September 1876--June 1878
Two Steps Forward	40	(17)
Transvaal, Cape Town, Natal 12 April 1877--22 January 1879
The Crouching Lion	57	(15)
London, Zululand, London November 1878--22 January 1879
Ismael's Dream of Empire	72	(14)
Egypt and the Sudan 18 February 1879--June 1880
One Step Backward	86	(23)
South Africa and London 16 December 1880--3 August 1881
Saving the Bey	109	(14)
Paris and Tunis 23 March--November 1881
Saving the Khedive	123	(18)
London and Egypt 31 December 1881--October 1882
PART II: THE RACE BEGINS	141	(116)
The Race for the Pool	143	(21)
Europe and Central Africa 30 May 1882--April 1883 and before
Head in the Clouds	164	(16)
The Upper Niger and France 1 February--July 1883
Hewett Shows the Flag	180	(21)
London and West Africa January 1883--19 July 1884 and before
Why Bismarck Changed his Mind	201	(17)
Germany, Africa and London 19 May 1884--November 1884
Too Late?	218	(21)
The Sudan 26 September 1884--26 January 1885
Welcome to a Philanthropist	239	(18)
Berlin, Brussels and London 15 November 1884--27 February 1885
PART III: RIGHTS OF CONQUEST	257	(326)
Gordon's Head	259	(17)
England, Egypt, Sudan and elsewhere 5 February 1885--8 June 1885
The Sultan's Flag	276	(21)
England, Zanzibar and East Africa 8 June--December 1885
Cries from the Heart	297	(19)
East Africa and England 25 September 1885--December 1886	297	(19)
Dr Emin, I Presume?	316	(20)
Brussels, Congo, Equatoria and German East Africa 29 December 1886--January 1890
Salisbury's Bargain	336	(22)
England, German East Africa and Germany June 1888--July 1890
An Insubordinate Army	358	(14)
Paris and the Western Sudan 12 August 1890--November 1893
A New Rand?	372	(21)
Mashonaland and Matabeleland (Rhodesia), Cape Colony, the Transvaal and England 27 June 1890--December 1892 and before
Msiri's Mocking Smile	393	(20)
Brussels and Katanga 19 April 1890--October 1892
The Flag Follows the Cross	413	(21)
Uganda, Paris and London 25 December 1891--November 1892
An Ivory War	434	(18)
The Congo and Brussels August 1892--Summer 1894
Blank Treaty Forms on the Niger	452	(18)
Paris, London and West Africa 5 September 1894--January 1897
A Lion's Share	470	(17)
Eritrea, Italy and Ethiopia 26 September 1895--January 1897
Rhodes, Raiders and Rebels	487	(17)
Birmingham, Rhodesia and the Transvaal August 1895--1897
Calling Hanotaux's Bluff	504	(20)
London, Paris and West Africa 1 January 1896--14 June 1898
The Race to the Middle of Nowhere	524	(15)
Brussels, the Congo, French West Africa, the Sudan and Ethiopia 5 May 1897--1 September 1898
The Mahdi's Tomb	539	(18)
The Sudan, Paris and London 1 September 1898--May 1899
Milner's War	557	(26)
London and South Africa 8 September 1899--31 May 1902 and after
PART IV: RESISTANCE AND REFORM	583	(86)
The Severed Hands	585	(17)
Brussels, London, Paris and the Congo 16 May 1902--February 1904
The Kaiser's First War	602	(14)
Berlin and German South-West Africa 18 January 1904 and after
`Maji-Maji!'	616	(13)
German East Africa July 1905 and after
Redeeming the French Congo	629	(12)
French Congo and Paris 29 April 1905 and after
Restoring Britain's `Old Ideals'	641	(15)
Britain, the Transvaal, Natal and British East Africa December 1905 and after
Leopold's Last Throw	656	(13)
Brussels, Washington, London and South Africa 3 June 1906 and after
Epilogue Scrambling Out	669	(12)
Zimbabwe, Africa and Europe 18 April 1980, before and after
Chronology	681	(14)
Sources	695	(2)
Select Bibliography	697	(8)
Notes	705	(14)
Index	719