Research Catalog

Title

Bismarck, Europe, and Africa : the Berlin Africa Conference 1884-1885 and the onset of partition / edited by Stig Förster, Wolfgang J. Mommsen, and Ronald Robinson.

Publication

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1988.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Förster, Stig.
• Mommsen, Wolfgang J., 1930-
• Robinson, Ronald, 1920-1999
• Robinson, Ronald, 1920-1999.
• German Historical Institute in London.

Description

xviii, 569 p. : maps; 26 cm.

Subject

• Bismarck, Otto, Fürst von, 1815-1898
• Berlin West Africa Conference (1884-1885 : Berlin, Germany)
• Africa > Foreign relations > Europe
• Europe > Foreign relations > Africa
• Africa > Colonization

Genre/Form

History.

Note

• "The German Historical Institute, London."
• Includes bibliographies and index.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes index of persons, places.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• The conference in Berlin and the future in Africa, 1884-1885 / R. Robinson -- On the margins of empire : the trade of Western Africa, 1875-1890 / C. Newbury -- Free trade and territorial partition in nineteenth-century West Africa : course and outcome / A.D. Nzemeke -- Chartered companies and the transition from informal sway to colonial rule in Africa / J. Flint -- Christian missionary activities in Africa in the age of imperialism and the Berlin Conference of 1884-1885 / H. Gründer -- Consequences of the foundation of the German Empire : colonial expansion and the process of political-economic rationalization / H. Pogge Von Strandmann -- Imperial Germany and West Africa : colonial movement, business interests, and Bismarck's "colonial policies" / K.J. Bade.
• Bismarck, the concert of Europe, and the future of West Africa, 1883-1885 / W.J. Mommsen -- French African priorities and the Berlin West Africa Conference / A.S. Kanya-Forstner -- British informal empire, imperial ambitions, defensive strategies, and the Anglo-Portuguese Congo Treaty of February 1884 / G.N. Sanderson -- The Portuguese and Spanish roles in the scramble for Africa : an economic interpretation / G. Clarence-Smith -- Leopold II and the Association Internationale du Congo / J. Stengers -- The Berlin Act of 26 February 1885 / G. De Courcel -- Free trade, internationalization of the Congo Basin, and the principle of effective occupation / I. Geiss -- Aspects of American interest in the Berlin Conference / G. Shepperson -- The USA, the Berlin Conference, and its aftermath 1884-1885 / P. Duignan.
• The Berlin Conference, West African boundaries, and the eventual partition / J.D. Hargreaves -- The Berlin Conference and the humanitarian conscience / L.H. Gann -- Humanitarianism at Berlin : myth or reality? / S. Miers -- Africa as terra nullius : the Berlin Conference and international law / J. Fisch -- The Berlin Conference in the German, French, and British press / E. Bendikat -- "Many questions, some answers" : African resistance in West Africa : a general view / M. Crowder -- Partition in practice : African politics and European rivalry in Bufumbira / E. Hopkins -- Indigenization of European colonialism in Africa : processes in Yorubaland and Dahomey since 1860 / A.I. Asiwaju -- Nigerian reaction to the imposition of British colonial rule, 1885-1918 / Obara Ikime -- Afro-European relations in the Western Congo Basin c. 1884-1885 / Mumbanza Mwa Bawele.
• Crisis and choice in the Nigerian emirates : the decisive decade, 1897-1906 /A.H.M. Kirk-Greene -- African perception of the new European policies in Africa duringthe 1880s / F. Ansprenger -- The Berlin Conference and the expansion of Europe :a conclusion / H.L. Wesseling -- The results of the Berlin West Africa Conference :an assessment / G.N. Uzoigwe.

ISBN

0199205000

LCCN

^^^87022941^

OCLC

• 16754126
• SCSB-11161739

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library