In the 1880s Europeans grabbed vast swaths of the African continent, using documents, not guns, as their weapon of choice. Steven Press follows a paper trail of questionable contracts to discover the confidence men who exploited a loophole in international law to assert sovereignty over lands, and whose actions touched off the scramble for Africa.
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- SKU 9780674971851
- Weight 0.692000
- ISBN 9780674971851
- Вид корица Hardback
- Издателство Harvard University Press
- Брой страници 384
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