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" Rogue empires : "
Steven Press.
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BL
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879664
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Press, Steven
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Rogue empires : : contracts and conmen in Europe's scramble for Africa /\ Steven Press.
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :: Harvard University Press,, 2017.
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1 online resource
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0674978811
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067497185X
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9780674971851
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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The man who bought a country -- The emergence of an idea -- King Leopold's Borneo -- Bismarck's Borneo -- Epilogue: "A great act of folly."
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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.--
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Bismarck, Otto,1815-1898.
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Gladstone, W. E., (William Ewart),1809-1898.
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Bismarck, Otto,1815-1898.
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Gladstone, W. E., (William Ewart),1809-1898.
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Berlin West Africa Conference(1884-1885 :, Berlin, Germany)
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Berlin West Africa Conference.
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Colonies-- Administration.
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Colonization.
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HISTORY-- Europe-- General.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Emigration Immigration.
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Africa, Colonization, History.
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Europe, Colonies, Administration, History.
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Africa.
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325.6
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JV246.P74 2017eb
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