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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Press, Steven
Titre(s) : Rogue empires [Texte imprimé] : contracts and conmen in Europe's scramble for Africa / Steven Press
Publication : Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2017
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (371 p.) ; 25 cm
Comprend : The man who bought a country ; The emergence of an idea ; King Leopold's Borneo
; Bismarck's Borneo ; Epilogue: "A great act of folly".
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
Rogue Empires takes a new look at the origins and consequences of a key moment in
European History: the Berlin Conference of 1884-1885. Drawing on archival research
conducted in ten countries and three languages, the book argues that the flood of
rogue empires in Africa came about due to a short-lived European obsession with events
happening far away, in Southeast Asia. European investors there had recently promoted
an idea of buying empires through "private" purchases of sovereignty: full control
over a place's resources and people, with neither monitoring by third parties, nor
any accountability to a nation, nor, in most cases, the awareness of affected indigenous
peoples. Once this idea made its way back around the world to European capitals, it
inspired a number of important figures, notably German chancellor Otto von Bismarck
and British Prime Minister William Gladstone, to support a string of copycat ventures
in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Sujet(s) : Bismarck, Otto von (1815-1898)
Gladstone, William Ewart (1809-1898)
Conférence de Berlin (1884 / 1885)
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 978-0-674-97185-1. - ISBN 067497185X (br.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb45249306d
Notice n° :
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